I saw a bunch of Pollarded trees on European virtual walks and

[Prairie_Seagull]

I have a bunch of trees that could stand this treatment. This is my first stop to find out more. If any have had this done or done it themselves. Please advise.

Here are some images.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pollarded+trees&t=ftsa&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

[CurtEastPoint]

1. you often see this in Europe with plane trees, just FYI.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. I've seen it many times in many places; never knew the term. Thanks! . . . .nt

[sybylla]

3. This works very well with "weedy" trees.

Some do it it naturally like soft maples, ash (those on my property that have been hit by EAB), and black cherry. Lots of these growing from stumps on my derelict farm woods.

I have many black locust on my property. Also a very weedy tree. In researching it, I learned that it is a species favored in Europe for hop and vineyard poles. Pollarded black locust grow especially straight and tall for these purposes. We are planning to remove the small locust groves encroaching everywhere, but intend to save a field for pollarding them and producing poles and fence posts for sale in the future.

Edited to add that pollarding black locust requires cutting it about 1-2 feet from the ground, it will then put up 3-5 new trunks from the old one.

I wasn't aware that doing a severe pruning of the crown was called pollarding.

[Prairie_Seagull]

4. Thanks Sybylla.

I have 5acs the perimeter of which is mostly trees some of which privacy producing and almost yearly into the power supply wiring. Have to get the cut back at least every other year. Weedy? I am not sure but they grow like weeds.

I did some virtual walking kind of. In Christmas Markets around Europe and this treatment looked well even thinned out and with the generally more sparse type of decorating done to trees over there

Thanks again for singing out. haha