Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John Smith" <mikakigr@gmail.com>]

The following was taken from the wikipedia: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding )

 

Pollarding is a woodland management method of encouraging lateral branches by cutting off a tree stem or minor branches two metres or so above ground level. The tree is given a year to regrow, after the initially cutting, but once begun, pollarding require annual maintenance by pruning. This will eventually result in a somewhat expanded (or swollen) nodes topping the tree trunk with multiple new side and top shoots growing from it.

A tree that has been pollarded is known as a pollard. A tree which has not been pollarded is called a maiden or maiden tree; which also refers to the fact that pollarding is normally first undertaken when the tree is quite young. Pollarding older trees usually result in the death of the tree. Pollarding is sometimes abused in attempts to curb the growth of older or taller trees. However, when performed properly it is useful in the practice of arboriculture for tree management.

On 3/12/07, TamesonOB <tamesonob@metrocast.net> wrote:

OK call me stupid. What is Pollarding? I went to the website and read about
cutting trees higher than a grazing animal, but the pictures look just like
the trees in my pasture which have had no such treatment. So what gives? and
why would someone want to do that? and how is it different than any other
kind of pruning?

Tameson


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