| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Continues in the whole of the borough and beyond | |
| Posted by: | Silvia Berlincioni | |
| Date/Time: | 18/04/11 13:29:00 |
| The "facts" that I have collected here and there online, besides that PDF, regarding deciduous trees seem to advise trimming lightly every year at the end of winter, before they leaf and flower. What the boroughs are doing here is not reducing the size and foliage of trees so that they can grow back thicker and stronger, it's pruning them so hard only a few naked stumps are left, no foliage at all, lots of "open wounds", so to speak, destruction of habitats for birds and insects, etc. I can't see how that helps growth and/or the properties around them or the environment - in fact, for a couple of years after such treatment the trees look pretty bare, and get butchered again just when they start to recover. |