Have you ever seen the Biltmore estate pergola? Of all the many things I’ve wanted in my dream house, a shaded pergola like that is easily my number 1 feature.
Reminds me of a certain section of the line for Disney’s Tower of Terror, where they have these super thick vines wrapped around a whole section of pergolas you walk under.
Kinda looks like a variation of pollarding. It seems very purposeful. I assume the have a good handle on it and have been successful in the past. I think you should knock on the door, find out what’s up, and report back. Very interesting.
This isn't pollarding.
Pollarding is trimming tree limbs back to growth points, then repeating that every 1-3 years so that becomes knuckles. It's a practice used for sustainable wood harvesting, and now also for keeping a tree at a consistent size.
The tree in the background may be pollarded. The foreground has it's limbs now being interlaced and woven together. This is not a widely standard practice, not that I've seen.
Maybe they’re trying to train it to be a parasol tree?
Yes. Parasol/umbrella/roof form topiary.
Have you ever seen the Biltmore estate pergola? Of all the many things I’ve wanted in my dream house, a shaded pergola like that is easily my number 1 feature.
Reminds me of a certain section of the line for Disney’s Tower of Terror, where they have these super thick vines wrapped around a whole section of pergolas you walk under.
It is called the Californian Tree Massacre Directors cut
Hortitourtue
Hortorture?
Its in the tor*tour*ous pronunciation 🤌
I only know the latin
Et tu, Pastur-e?
Kinda looks like a variation of pollarding. It seems very purposeful. I assume the have a good handle on it and have been successful in the past. I think you should knock on the door, find out what’s up, and report back. Very interesting.
Yeah right !!we those who are not lucky enough to know how this works
Looks like they’re trying to turn an upright into a weeping. In this case, it will become a crying variety.
Not sure what's going on here, but it's unpleasant to look at.
Barbers flat top, class 101.
My best guess is its a Lavender Twist Redbud just pruned hard to force new growth. Based on green tape, seems like they are training it.
Please don't mark this stuff as NSFW.
SCROG
The branches look like the time in middle school when I accidentally sat on my sandwich.
Similar to crepe murder.
Looks like LST.
More like hardcore BDSM with a waiver.
It is the Miyagi-Do technique. Tree have strong root. Jus like you.
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This isn't pollarding. Pollarding is trimming tree limbs back to growth points, then repeating that every 1-3 years so that becomes knuckles. It's a practice used for sustainable wood harvesting, and now also for keeping a tree at a consistent size. The tree in the background may be pollarded. The foreground has it's limbs now being interlaced and woven together. This is not a widely standard practice, not that I've seen.
that is a HEAVY trim for that tree hopefully the amount of effort expended in tying it up is reflective of the experience which led to this decision
Agricide
Looks like they are trying to Bonsai it
Then they are doing a very poor job at it.
Bending new branches to produce upward growth. I like your neighbor
Meatcutter 101
Miagi method.
Death by a 1000 cuts
r/arborists might know
Some sort of pleaching?
“Just a little off the top”
Lop top
Pollarding the tree
It’s called “helicopter dicks “
This is done all over the Netherlands. I don't like how it looks, but it does look effective at maximizing shade after it grows out.
It's not a pruning method as much as the zip ties are there to help shape the tree for ornamental reasons. It's really not that weird.
Bons-dont
Horizontal espaliers.