Pollards, are they out of vogue in the UK?

[Darrin Turnbull]

Planes

[Mick Dempsey]

They love it!

[Gary Prentice]

Used to be a very common practice when I was a kid in London. I'd hazard a guess that the biggest factor now to creating/managing pollards is budgetary

[Mick Dempsey]

Surely it's the simplest cheapest way to manage trees?

[silky fox]

It is!

[Gary Prentice]

Surely it's the simplest cheapest way to manage trees?

 

The right tree in the right location is the most cost effective form of management.

[skyhuck]

Surely it's the simplest cheapest way to manage trees?

 

Unfortunately I think its cheaper to do nothing for years and then fell and not replace

[Mick Dempsey]

Oh come on! All trees grow, how you deal with that's essentially what we do.

[tree-fancier123]

The right tree in the right location is the most cost effective form of management.

 

I agree - the pollarding does enable big trunks to be retained, but with the increased botanical knowledge and availability of hybrids there must now be better street trees than lime and plane. I mean better in terms of not growing so big so fast and therefore costing less

[Mick Dempsey]

This thread was sparked by Andymacap's post on the Work Pictures thread.

He had thinned and reduced (rather than repollarding) some previously pollarded limes, his decision apparently. He didn't want to get into a discussion about it on that thread, fair enough.

It just seemed to me that redoing them as previous would have taken half the time and effort and they'd have looked better.