Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Great photo Daniel. Yep, pollarding it is...but pollarding is much more than just preventing the branches from getting too long. It was a way of cropping the trees for small pliable branches, for use in housing, fencing and the like. We have five willows at the end of our garden which are pollarded back each year. The next year the growth comes on vigorously and the tree is in good shape. If you go into the woods near here you can see many trees that have been pollarded for generations, in the case of some right back to a small stump near the ground about a foot tall. The problem is that they aren't being cut back anymore, but they have a peculiar and unique shape. Once seen, you will always recognise them. Round here they also practice a form of pollarding on the suckers (shoots) that come out from the base of lime trees, forms a nice, spiky, cushion-like effect after a few years. Sorry to ramble on ;-) Peter PMCC wrote: > All, > > I'm getting in a bit late on this, but > FWIW, you may be talking about a European > tree pruning technique called pollarding: > > http://www.canoe.ca/HGGardening0201/14_pollarding-ap.html > > I have a row of plane trees in front of my > house and a Basque gardener who came with the house > ages ago. Every winter he cuts the trees back > in this fashion, resulting in the characteristic > clubbed look. > > Daniel, this batch of photos is terrific. It's > a pleasure to share a slice of your life through > your superb photographs of place, family and friends. > > Peter Choy. > > --- Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> > wrote: > > >>That's because they're cut at the ends every season >>to keep the branches >>from extending too much. >> >> >>>From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com> >>>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>>Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:15:27 -0500 >>>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >>>Subject: RE: [Leica] PAW 4 dlridings >>> >>>Philippe Orlent wrote: >>> >>>>it's a sycamore (plane-tree), I think. >>>> >>>>>Could you tell me what kind of tree this is ? >>>>>http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/05v04-0013.jpg >>> >>>Thanks Philippe. I didn't realize sycamores can >> >>look >> >>>so bulbous. >>> >>>- Phong >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >> >>for more information >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>more information >> > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >