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Yup, there are some nice ones there, and also scattered about on the streets in various other neighborhoods. I think they're all sycamores if I remember correctly. Or would that be lime trees? I'm still confused about the difference.

Nice wildlife habitat Butch. ;) By the way, pollarding is also used by municipalities in the United States, with good results. San Francisco is the one that I have seen personally.

Haha, I was restraining myself from saying anything.

I'm with you on that 100%.

Got it. I just want to make my viewpoint clear that heading does not necessarily equal topping. They are not one and the same.

I heartily disagree with that. Heading cuts have their place in different pruning systems, and are not necessarily equal to topping, although topping does employ heavy indiscriminate heading cuts. Training of young nursery trees and storm restoration are just two examples of situations where...

That's a heading cut, in my personal nomenclature.

You said it better than me, Squish.

That is not the only difference. A properly pollarded tree will not be headed back until a certain point in its life, and the resultant branch structure will be carefully considered at that time. Pollarding is generally only done with species that are tolerant (or even like) the practice. I'm...