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Rant away. It is interesting to hear your take on things, rant or not.

My reaction exactly! Good one!

That is a pretty nice way of looking at it, Stephen.

You are right. P. Alba it is.

Great job, Stephen. I saw a linden with as much mistletoe in it in Schweiz yesterday. You don't have to go much south of here before it becomes a pest, and here it is a rarity.Weird.

Nice job, Stephen. Up here in the cold north it is so rare, that when I tell people I know a guy who removes it for a living, they don't believe me.

Yup, that sure made a difference for the better.

Probably don't plant poplars in cities, either. I'd think linden would grow just as well in St. Petersburg

The Russian way is pretty extreme. But then Russia is a pretty extreme place.

Reason it was done here was for harvesting the shoots and new branches. So the trees were topped low enough that people could reach the tops from low ladders but cattle /horses couldn't. No giraffes here, fortunately. Here is a picture I posted of some...

Not so much in the cold climates that Andrew and I work in. Some of the old road side poplars that have been whacked a hundred years ago, are still alive. Hollow, but alive.

There has been a number of very well thought out posts in this thread lately. That is what I like about this here anthill, when you poke a stick into it, the members respond intelligently instead of getting mad and sprying muriatic acid. Neat idea to hang those crabapples upside down before...

I have killed more than 100000 trees, that will be my legacy. If that makes me a hack in your eues, I can live with that.:)

I'd go right ahead and do it. After trying my best to convince the customer that it is an unsound practice. If it was a onetime deal, I'd pass on it, since I hate working with concrete, but if one of my major accounts asked for it and was insistent about it, that is what they would get. Some...

I think that poplars make for shitty city trees. Even when pollarded, the regrowth is too vigorous to keep maintained. Yearly maintenance is too costly, so you end up in Andrews situation, having to deal with really big regrown tops. The only other way I can think of to deal with those trees is...

Oh, they will have to do it all over, I had a talk with the management:lol:

These pollarded lindens have been kept nice for a century or more. Then someone decided that the greenkeepers from the golf course could do just as fine a job as anyone else. Mistake!

This is what is great about having an international forum of tree-people. Lots of different regional input.

Red paint, I bet.

True, but since it is never going to have a top again, it'll still last an loong time, before structural wekness get the better of it. Most times, the alternative is felling the tree. I bid on pollarding 3 semi mature sycamores last week, they are growing between tightly placed buildings in...