The practice of “coppicing” is similar, except performed at ground level. As with pollarding, if performed annually, coppicing more or less keeps the plant in a perpetual state of juvenility.

Plus, we reveal five of the best trees and why they are so good for coppicing. Coppicing and pollarding are pruning techniques often mistaken for each other or thought to mean the same thing.

Very few arborists in America condone the extreme pruning techniques known as pollarding and coppicing. Both techniques essentially ruin trees, and deprive them of their natural form. Affected ...

John says: "This is particularly so with eucalypts. The ones that I've used in this experiment are quite good for coppicing, but pollarding can be quite an unsafe technique." There are ...

Just about any other arborist will say that pollarding and coppicing are wrong. These techniques ruin trees so that they can never develop into their natural form. Although restorative pruning ...

Pollarding is best done from a young age ... More useful in the garden is the technique of coppicing. This requires cutting the tree back almost to ground level. Coppicing is an ancient technique ...

Pollarding and coppicing are traditional techniques that are used for timber production, but they're also useful when pruning ornamentals grown for decorative bark or leaves. It can also be used ...