22-08-2005, 09:25 PM
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from (WaltA) contains these words:
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:36:33 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
Lombardy poplars are not a true variety of poplar, but are cultivated by
rooting cuttings from a branch of, IIRC, the black poplar, and the
cutting doesn't know it's not a branch any longer, and continues growing
straight up.
Oh! I never knew that, most interesting.
You mean to say that it isn't only us gardeners that get confused and
don't know what we are supposed to be doing :-)
That sounds my kind of tree ! I must have one !!
Sounds as though it might be labour intensive, I wonder how much they
cost,
,,,goes to search of suppliers
How many cuttings would you like? BTW, we felled two of them in Neasden
some years ago - they were very old pollards and rotting at the base,
and the householder's insurance company declined his business until they
were removed.
They were well over 200 ft in height, and when we came to take the
bottom part of the trunks down, we only just managed it going in from
two sides with a 36" arm on the power saw.
They tend to get overenthusiastic when set loose.
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