What crown reduction, thinning, pollarding and topping actually mean, when each is the right call, and how a good cut differs from a bad one.
Topping mutilates a tree. Crown reduction reduces it properly. The technical difference, what a good job looks like on the day, and what to say if a tree surgeon offers to top your tree.
Read the guideCrown reduction isn't one job. It's four different jobs depending on the species in front of you. Here's how a qualified East Sussex tree surgeon handles the four most common ones in our patch.
Read the guideCrown reduction is one-off shaping that keeps the tree's natural form. Pollarding is a long-term cycle on specific species. They look similar on paper and they are very different jobs.
Read the guideThinning opens a tree up without changing its size. Reduction makes the tree smaller. Both legitimate, both BS3998, done for different reasons. A plain guide to which one your tree wants.
Read the guideCrown reduction is the proper way to make a tree smaller without damaging it. Here's what it actually is, what BS3998 says about it, and when you'd want one on a tree in your garden.
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