pollard
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Mr McBride, who records ancient trees in Wales, said the oak had enormous cultural significance as it was a pollard - it had not grown in the field naturally.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2018
The pollard heads are now the size of softballs, or larger.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
This permits the tree to develop knobbly structures called pollard heads, which form natural defenses against wound decay.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
An old pollard in Savernake Forest that could date back to Saxon times.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2014
Try as he might, Dalroy, crouched behind a pollard oak, could not overhear the spy’s words.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy
Clarissa was thus forced to saunter alone, and after she had got to the brook and the pollards, she sat down, and leant her arms on the bars of an old farm gate.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
The line dwindled as the shorn pollards gave up their withes to bind the vines to the dwarf maples.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
They were drawing up in single file by the side of the road, close under the steep bank, pressing into it, in the dark shadow of the pollards.
From Angelot A Story of the First Empire by Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine) Price
There are not only fine thriving oaks, throwing out their gigantic arms, but sturdy pollards without end, which seem to have set time and season and decay at defiance.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
The stumps are called "pollards" and the trees "pollarded willows" whose discouraging task has been to grow a yearly crop of withes for the basket-makers; yet each spring finds them bristling with the new growth.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
As with many of Banksy's works, the latest piece caused a debate and range of opinions, including from some conservation campaigners who say the tree was pruned back, or pollarded, too much.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2024
Willows are coppiced — cut regularly to within an inch or two of the base to flush fresh growth — or pollarded, with cuts made higher up on the trunk or branches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
One of the most conspicuous displays of pollarded Natchez crape myrtles is at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden on the Mall.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
On most mornings in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, elderly Asian women practice tai chi under the pollarded sycamore trees.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2014
By Rennes, the sun has dropped low over the horizon, and the smell of warm manure comes through the open windows, and lines of pollarded trees whisk past.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Mr Stephen explained his team used an "ancient form of pruning" known as pollarding - where the upper parts of the tree are removed.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
Another option is to adopt a pruning regime known as pollarding, which maintains a tree at a given height permanently.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
After pollarding the oak produced "a good crop of acorns", said Mr Partridge.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2013
The natural gracefulness of the mulberry foliage is entirely destroyed by the unmerciful pruning and pollarding which it undergoes in this country, in order to concentrate it for gathering.
From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes
But here it was, in this cavern, that he elaborated his system of reform, treating Christianity as a French peasant treats an oak tree, pollarding it, and lopping off every lateral, natural outgrowth.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
