February is the month to prune evergreen and deciduous trees. General rules to follow are to prune dead and diseased wood first followed by removal of other wood to shape or thin as necessary. Always ...

Trees undoubtedly go through a number of changes, some of which are caused by human landscaping methods. You might be used to seeing occasional trimming, or even a tree completely removed from an area ...

I saw a group of trees that have been topped at the Garden, but I thought that topping trees was bad for them. — Angela Groskopf, Park Ridge You may be referring to the group of sycamore trees planted ...

One afternoon in the not too distant future I’m going to get out front and pollard my golden privets. It’s a good thing I garden with clothes on, pollarding can be painful. Pollarding started out in ...

You either like the look of a tree that has been pollarded, or you do not. It's not a natural look. This time of year, a pollarded tree presents a trunk capped by a clubbed head, or a trunk with short ...

Folk wandering alongside the Wensum may be surprised to some of the trees looking even more bare than usual heading into spring. The unmistakable look of weeping willow trees perched along the river ...

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A ONE-MAN protest temporarily halted work to cut back trees at a patch of woodland in Oxford. Mike Hamblett, 57, scaled a willow tree at Cripley Meadow Allotments, next to Port Meadow, at lunchtime ...

LAST week's high winds saw the end of many fine trees. Damage on the nature reserves was relatively minor but one species of tree which suffered more than most was the crack willow. The land around ...

And it is these trees that also make up one of the memorable views of Norwich's Riverside Walk, draping themselves over the River Wensum from behind St James Mill. However, those who have recently ...

Pollarding is a type of severe pruning that results in a dense growth of branches at the pruning site instead of its naturally shaped crown. Last fall, I decided to pollard a catalpa tree to re-create ...