Cherry Reduction

[White Noise]

Mesterh (Top Banana ) first pic is by far the best .

[dannyT]

Most of you are advising butchery!................Tees "dont like" being topped!

Isnt it false economy for the customer, wont the tree react to the pruning and send out loads of regrowth?

 

I would suggest thinning the tree. But if the customer is complaining that the tree is "overbaring" in such a small garden then why not fell?

[Rod]

more drastic then in two or three years the first option. it'd be a nice thick symetrical tree then.

[Glen Poole]

i'd go for a light reshape with loppers/poleprunners, crown lift & a thin,£100 & a cup of rosie

[josharb87]

Most of you are advising butchery!................Tees "dont like" being topped!

Isnt it false economy for the customer, wont the tree react to the pruning and send out loads of regrowth?

 

I would suggest thinning the tree. But if the customer is complaining that the tree is "overbaring" in such a small garden then why not fell?

 

 

because then you get to re-reduce/fell it a few years later and get paid again

 

why not fell?? well people like having established trees in their garden, just a bit smaller:001_smile:

 

20 % red, crown clean, £130

[Rod]

im wondering if this is a regional differance of oppinion because most cherry trees around us have been pollarded and shaped at various times of their life.

 

 

or is that the case everywhere

[Stephen Blair]

im wondering if this is a regional differance of oppinion because most cherry trees around us have been pollarded and shaped at various times of their life.

 

 

or is that the case everywhere

 

 

i was taught by 2 old gardeners that a cherry tree should be the shape of a china cup, flat top, and tapering sides. all the blossom is tight and within the frame of the crown, lasts a lot longer. these 2 guys had worked in stately homes/castles all their days as had there fathers. this type of pruning is purely for asthetics. if i were the customer that hf is quoting for, i would like to sit on my deck, not see my nieghbours house, have a little shade, something for the birds and kids to play in and a nice bit of colour. keep it small, pruned every year. and the tree will lead a quiet life and not get in anyones way. fell and replant?what with, what grows to 8 feet and stops?

[Rod]

i picture a cherry almost as you describe but slightly 'weeping' with long thin branches growing down from the crown (kind of) but a dence crown

[Stephen Blair]

i picture a cherry almost as you describe but slightly 'weeping' with long thin branches growing down from the crown (kind of) but a dence crown

 

heres the nicest cherry i have ever seen, over 40yrs old and never pruned:001_smile:

[Rod]

thats it small dence slight look of weeping. not a 20ft tall wispy thin thing