pollarding

The first sign of tree vandalism, also known as pollarding, has been seen already, beginning on a short stretch of Tumanian Street alongside the “Brambion” building on the Abovyan Street corner.

An Armenian Blog About Life in Armenia 2005

The first sign of tree vandalism, also known as pollarding, has been seen already, beginning on a short stretch of Tumanian Street alongside the “Brambion” building on the Abovyan Street corner.

Archive 2005-10-01 2005

But they have two ways of pollarding, and the other is called trasmocho, in which the four-foot stumps of three or four of the original main lateral branches form a composite bolling.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Most of the oaks, holly and hazels showed signs of the pollarding or coppicing that would have maintained a plentiful supply of underwood, autumn nutting and perhaps holly fodder when the wood was worked and harvested.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Every so often, it needs pollarding and reshaping.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Because of the extra effort of regrowing new poles at each pollarding every twenty years, the pollard trees grow slowly but live longer, like coppice stools.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

But already, as pollarding goes out of fashion, desmocho has been lost from the language and all pollards are called trasmocho.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Conversely, harvesting, the work of decrease, including coppicing and pollarding, belongs in the time when the moon herself is decreasing.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

But I worry that its twenty poles are due for pollarding before they split the tree in two in the next big gale, and who will cut them now?

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Coppicing and pollarding were now things of the past, and the trees were constantly spreading, recolonizing old meadows and grazing enclosures.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009