I saw a group of trees that have been topped at the Garden, but I thought that topping trees was bad for them. — Angela Groskopf, Park Ridge You may be referring to the group of sycamore trees planted ...

LAFAYETTE, La. — So, Pollard’s Riversbend Farms have been setting up Christmas tree lots in Acadiana since 1981. How did it begin? And why did ‘Dad’ come in the first place? “He actually started off ...

Pollarding is a type of severe pruning that results in a dense growth of branches at the pruning site instead of its naturally shaped crown. Last fall, I decided to pollard a catalpa tree to re-create ...

You either like the look of a tree that has been pollarded, or you do not. It's not a natural look. This time of year, a pollarded tree presents a trunk capped by a clubbed head, or a trunk with short ...

A forty-year friendship between a preschool and a tree farm is one for the ages. On Friday, the empty lot of the Pollard's Christmas tree farm will be full of beautiful evergreens ready for the ...

You either like the look of a tree that has been pollarded, or you do not. It's not a natural look. This time of year, a pollarded tree presents a trunk capped by a clubbed head, or a trunk with short ...

Last fall, I blogged about a catalpa sapling I pruned. The results of that pruning have been evolving through the summer. The tree is a wildling that just happened to sprout from seed along the west ...

Macomb County is a step closer to its goal of doubling the tree canopy across its communities. Officials gathered in Chesterfield Township on Monday to dedicate 20 trees recently planted at Pollard ...

On a recent trip to southern France I was fascinated by what some people might term "tree abuse." The French love to turn certain trees into sculpted forms by removing all new growth each year -- or ...