There's a good overview on Wiki <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding>
Chuck Norcutt
Charles Geilfuss wrote:
> Frank,
> I like the image very much; between the frost and severe pollarding it has
> an alien landscape look to it. Of course that may be because few trees are
> pollarded in this area (the exception is Crepe Myrtles which some people
> here perform every year; some call it Crepe Murder). I know this was
> discussed one time before, but why is it done? Aesthetics? Size control?
> Lots of mis-behaving children in need of switches? ;^)
>
> Charlie
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Frank van Lindert <Frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Chuck, the trees are pollard willows, very common here in Holland.
>> They are rather demanding to be kept in shape. When this is properly
>> done they have to polled every third year. Farmers and estate keepers
>> do this or have it done in such a way, that never all trees are polled
>> at the same time. In my picture
>> http://www.vanlindert.nl/Frank/knot1+2_with_c.jpg
>> you can see that some of the trees have been "topped" only a few
>> months ago, others one year ago, and the ones with the longest
>> branches two years ago. Those will be next in turn, in the autumn of
>> this year.
>>
>> Frank van Lindert
>> Utrecht NL.
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:41:13 -0500, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> Very pretty. What are the trees?
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
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