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16
January 2004
On
Southwick Green
the upper limbs of at least half a dozen trees are being completely sawn
off by the tree surgeons. They are all the same species of trees and it
makes them seem incongruous amongst the fully branched trees that otherwise
surround the green. There
does not seem any ostensible reason for the lopping. My
first thoughts that these were diseased Elms
and that the branches may have fallen down suddenly causing injury or damage.
The
trees worked on were Poplars and
the work carried out was basically pollarding.
These
trees are probably about 70 or 80 years old, and at an early stage they
where reduced in height. This work has been continued every five or six
years ever since.
Once
maintenance of is this kind established on a tree it is often not possible
to allow it to become any higher as there is a weakness in the "knuckles"
where the branches have been repeatedly cut back.
