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 ...

Contrast the ugly disfiguration of a topped tree with that of another, but purposeful, form of extreme pruning that is actually an art form: pollarding. Pollarding (poh-LARD-ing) is a pruning ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard of pollarding? It’s a specialty tree pruning technique that is commonly used in England. It produces some interesting forms and colors for your garden. And it can be easy!

The Garden decided to use pollarding to maintain these trees to meet the design criteria and to provide an example of pollarding, which is a practice more commonly found in Europe. Pollard tree ...