Re: WAS Royal Paulownia NOW tree topping

Last week the electric company came to town to do their annual pruning
of trees around power lines...one of mine was on their list and I was
happy to see how careful these guys were about making sure they didn't
damage the tree...they did a nice job and the tree actually looks much
healthier...we would have pruned it ourselves in another couple of weeks
but now we had it done for free. Especially after one of our spring
break forays to another town showed me a couple of very good examples of
how **not** to prune a tree...could not believe that any one in this day
and age would still be topping trees, but there they were...idiots!



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

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 --- On Sat 03/27, Kitty < kmrsy@comcast.net > wrote:
From: Kitty [mailto: kmrsy@comcast.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 23:39:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia

Ceres,<br>I couldn't tell from your post whether you thought topping and
coppicing<br>were similar practices or that one just brought the other
to mind.<br>Coppicing is cutting the shrub to ground level and stooling
cuts generally<br>to 6-24 inches from the ground year to encourage lots
of new growth.<br>(there is also pollarding, but I think people often
use all 3 terms<br>interchangeably) Topping is a stupid practice done to
trees, much higher<br>up. Why? Ignorance.<br><br>From International
Society of Arboriculture:<br>Topping is perhaps the most harmful tree
pruning practice known. Yet,<br>despite more than 25 years of literature
and seminars explaining its harmful<br>effects, topping remains a common
practice. This brochure explains why<br>topping is not an acceptable
pruning technique and offers better<br>alternatives.
See:<br>http://www.treesaregood.com/treecare/topping.asp<br><br>Kitty<br><br>-----
Original Message ----- <br>From: <Cersgarden@aol.com><br>To:
<gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 10:56
PM<br>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Royal Paulownia<br><br><br>> In a message
dated 3/27/04 8:12:49 PM, vldunn@widomaker.com writes:<br>><br>> << I
remember when just riding around<br>><br>> Baltimore that I observed
row-house gardens that would have a single<br>><br>> "coppiced" tree in
the backyard. >><br>><br>> Verona, this made me think of the many trees
I saw in the D.C. area which<br>I<br>> guess you might say they were
topped or at least severly pruned. Anyone<br>know<br>> why? This is a
forbidded practice in our area.<br>> Ceres<br>><br>>
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