Re: Royal Paulownia

I think they must do it everywhere that there are overhead power lines. Guess I'm lucky because the power line for my place runs along the back property line where there are no big trees. Folks across the street are not so blessed. Many of them have butchered trees in their front lawns.

But I have to believe that some of this is brought on by the homeowners. I have a corner lot and there are power lines down the side street. Whoever owned this place before the people we bought it from had planted a queen palm directly under the power line. Cost me a case of beer to get one of the landscape crews to transplant it for me.


On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 09:02 PM, "" <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:

Here too, one of my pet peeves. I was noticing some especially butchered
specimins on the way back from the nursery this morning. Make me nuts.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea H
Sent: 3/28/2004 7:29:47 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia

they do that here too Marge. They'll cut the middle out of a live oak so it
has this giant swoop in the center. Looks ridiculous and I'm sure those
trees are going to topple any day OR they'll just cut one side of whatever
the offending tree might be so it's branchless on one side and full on the
other. Completely asinine.
Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia


When I read your first post - didn't have a chance to respond then -
wondered if what you were seeing was the handiwork of our idiot
utility companies?  They go around hacking back trees to keep them
away from the power lines...and hacking is a kind word for what they
do.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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In a message dated 3/27/04 10:21:02 PM, kmrsy@comcast.net writes:

<< I couldn't tell from your post whether you thought topping and
coppicing
were similar practices or that one just brought the other to mind.


Kitty, it just reminded me of what I saw. Many of these were in
public
locations which one would think professionls have performed the
work. Also, some 
were sizeable trees with each branch pruned severly.
    I believe coppicing and stooling is the same performance which
I do each
year to my Royal Purple Cotinus but I am sure we have discussed
that in the 
past.
    Are you receiving lots of rain?  Flash flood warnings last
evening and it 
is still very dreary and soft rain with heavy spruts now & then.
    Ceres


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