On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:57:50 +0100, Charlie Pridham wrote:

On 10/08/2016 16:47, Ermin Trude wrote:
Has anyone any experience of pollarding cherry trees please?

We have a couple of very large cherry trees in the garden with lots of
bough but very little leaf and thin covering of blossom each spring.

I am minded to pollard the trees to make them far more compact and to
reduce bough length in doing so. Hopefully this would also concentrate
the blossom.

Has anyone tried this and with what result? I'll forgo the bloosom for
the first year but would hope to see it in future years - for this
reason I'd not be doing both at the same time.

Thanks

One across the road from us was given some chain saw pruning, it
flowered a bit the following year was better the next and back to normal
by the third year

Just checking - if you coppice a tree you basically cut it down almost to
ground level removing all the branches and expecting new shoots to grow
from the stump.

Is pollarding the same but around head height? That is, if the tree is
tall you take of all the branches and just leave a bare 6-8 foot stump?

If so I assume that only some types of tree will survive this brutality.

Alternatively, do you just cut the centre back hard to the lowest few
branches and also cut those back hard?

Cheers


Dave R

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