Pollards, are they out of vogue in the UK?

[Mick Dempsey]

It can also mean training the shape, according to wiki.

Here's a twisted willow outside my workshop I do every year, given its location it's inconceivable to do anything but pollard it.

I do it in the spring rather than the usual autumn trim 'cos the regrowth looks nice all winter.

[Richard 1234]

It can also mean training the shape, according to wiki.

 

Here's a twisted willow outside my workshop I do every year, given its location it's inconceivable to do anything but pollard it.

 

I do it in the spring rather than the usual autumn trim 'cos the regrowth looks nice all winter.

 

 

Is that about 6foot growth a year

[Mick Dempsey]

More!

Strange story about this tree, my mum bought some twisted willow "sticks" to use for flower arranging.

Once put in a vase with water and flowers some of it started to produce leaf, so she put it in the ground and grew a tree. This is a cutting from that, first planted 8 years ago.

Edited December 20, 2015 by Mick Dempsey

[Richard 1234]

More!

Strange story about this tree, my mum bought some twisted willow "sticks" to use for flower arranging.

Once put in a vase with water and flowers some of it started to produce leaf, so she put it in the ground and grew a tree. This is a cutting from that, first planted 8 years ago.

 

 

Amazing what nature can do! Trees could live thousands of years like that!

[MattyF]

Pleaching is training along wires I thought ..... Usually the trees will be flat or form tunnels.

[treesrus]

Pleaching is training along wires I thought ..... Usually the trees will be flat or form tunnels.

 

pleached limes at Erddig, Wrexham

[Aunt Maud]

I thought pleaching was layering.

 

Layering is burying a bent or pleached shoot in the ground and holding it there with a rock or peg so that it roots. You can increase the number of stools in a Hazel coppice by layering, for example.

[Chris at eden]

mature trees

 

That's where the problem lies. That's not pollarding, its topping. As such it gives pollarding a bad name. Mick's examples look good though. The old 1989 version of 3998 used to say that pollarding was synonymous with topping!!! Probably didn't help.

[Chris at eden]

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

 

[Chris at eden]

not up on all that, heard about it with Aspen, will have a read

 

Monoculture can be anything. Its the growing of a single species within a group. Street full of planes, field full of carrots, etc.

 

Ginkgo is a monotypic genus or monotypic taxon. Only one species in existence within the tree's genera. Ginkgo biloba is the only one, there is no Ginkgo spp.

 

Aspen isn't monotypic as there are lots of poplars but it but it could be grown as a monoculture, as a woodland plantation for example.