The tops of 20 century-old blossoming lime trees that line either side ... Imagine the shock to find that the council has pollarded the trees in July, when they are at their best.

The same trees respond to pollarding, which is a taller version of coppicing with growth cut back to a short trunk. Eucalyptus and lime are often pollarded every two to three years to maintain a ...

So, what about pollarding? It is a pruning technique used to develop a bare framework of scaffold (the main tree branches) branches, each of which terminate in a gnarly stub. From these “knobs ...

Lime trees along Charminster Avenue in Bournemouth ... Bournemouth Christchurch & Poole (BCP) Council say the pollarding work is carried out every five years to ensure the health of the trees ...

The lime trees, which stood tall on either side of the High Street in Henley-in-Arden, were abruptly pollarded for money-saving reasons, leaving residents in shock. A team of tree surgeons was ...

This is the way ginkgos in Tokyo, lindens in Amsterdam and plane trees throughout France are kept street-sized. Pollarding is best ... good local example in the lime walk at Retford Park, the ...

A GROUP of campaigners are celebrating after a row of historic lime trees were saved ... concern about plans to carry out pollarding on the remaining seven trees, a process which will see up ...

A council's decision to pollard more than 40 lime trees that were planted about 130 years ago has come in for criticism. Contractors working for Milton Keynes City Council arrived in Stony ...