But Pollard, in research with adviser Jillian Goldfarb, proposes a different, more useful application for the cherry pits: something called a biochar. Exposing the pits to very high heat in a kiln ...

And this week, a reader asked about the practice of “pollarding” and how this differs from topping. “Topping” is the removal of a terminal shoot back to a point where there is no lateral ...

Pollarding is quite common in London and there are similar trees close to Banksy's work on Hornsey Road. But the cherry tree Banksy chose to centre had its canopy “very, very badly removed” by ...