The next day, I asked another gardener over on Gibbes Street what he thought of this pollarding fad about town.
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The pruning practices of coppicing and pollarding induce ramification by removing most of a tree's mass above the root.
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The willow was harvested using a traditional method of pollarding, where a tree would be cut back to the main stem.
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Pollarding was preferred over coppicing in wood-pastures and other grazed areas, because animals would browse the regrowth from coppice stools.
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An incidental effect of pollarding in woodland is the encouragement of underbrush growth due to increased levels of light reaching the woodland floor.
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Pollarding is also used in urban forestry in certain areas for reasons such as tree size management, safety, and health concerns.
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This was the reason for lopping and hence indirectly the saving of Epping Forest, where the hornbeam was a favoured pollarding tree.
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In addition, the Crown's right to venison was terminated, and pollarding was no longer allowed, although grazing rights continued.
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The process of pruning the shoots back each year is called pollarding . talk ) 07 : 32, 21 May 2014 ( UTC)
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Epicormic shoots are the means by which trees regrow after coppicing or pollarding, where the tree's trunk or branches are cut back on a regular cycle.
