I’ve never seen this before and wonder whether the leaves will bloom in the spring since the smaller branches will need to grow back first?
There’s also something a bit eerie about they way they look right now
by ryanm533
I’ve never seen this before and wonder whether the leaves will bloom in the spring since the smaller branches will need to grow back first?
There’s also something a bit eerie about they way they look right now
by ryanm533
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It’s common practice. Just as you cut back herbs and flowers, you also cut back trees.
They’ve been Pollarded. It’s the recommended way to prune trees.
They do it on my street normally it grows back way faster than you’d expect
Dude there is this confusing traffic light and you are talking about trees being pruned?
Those are London Plane. It’s how they’re pruned.
Your council prunes its trees?!?
I think the idea is really cool but isn’t it a bit close to the roads that it could be a hazard? All you need it one person not paying attention and it could go wrong.
It’s called [pollarding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding), it’s a form of tree maintenance going back to at least Ancient Rome.
“Pollarding tends to make trees live longer by maintaining them in a partially juvenile state and by reducing the weight and windage of the top part of the tree.”
Near Billingsgate Fish Market?
To match the traffic light
That’s a traffic light
They’ve probably had to harvest some traffic lights for 2024 works but it doesn’t look that pruned to me.
It’s called pollarding – the trees grown back nicely compact and bushy. They benefit from this!
Because it covered the traffic lights. Safety issue and all.
That traffic light a real thing or an art piece?
Most famous traffic light in the UK. But most if us get the tube into work and don’t see it!