| A river from the fading distance, which is one mist of collapsed aqueducts and castles, wanders between poplars and pollarded willows. |
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| When they are more mature, the trees will be pollarded regularly to keep them shapely and compact. |
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| Sadly this lawned area with its avenue of pollarded lime trees is split in half by the main Swindon-Salisbury road. |
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| Outside, the plane trees along the street have the same sameness about them, pollarded in a way I used to think cruel. |
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| Lime grows quickly, is handsome looking, and can be readily clipped or pollarded. |
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| The trees have been pollarded where possible and will be managed as such for wildlife. |
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| Trees with unsafe limbs can be pruned or pollarded at the correct time of year to extend their life and keep their benefit for humankind. |
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| However, district councillor Bob White believes that the tree should be pollarded, reduced in height and given a second chance. |
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| The pollarded tree had been dead for some years but the huge trunk was left standing as a home to wildlife, said Mr Bradbury. |
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| If left to grow to maturity, crack willows have a large and full crown, but they are often pollarded. |
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| You can still see pollarded crack willows if you travel through the Somerset levels just north-east of Taunton. |
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| Many of these pollarded trees still remain in our streets and shopping centres, though they are gradually being replaced with smaller species. |
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| Ahead of me a row of pollarded willows lines the bank of the stream, beyond which the ground slopes gently upwards towards leafless woodland, appearing sombre grey. |
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| The trees on the line near Mrs Connolly's property were not removed, but were pollarded as they are less invasive and cause fewer problems than sycamore. |
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| Rows of pollarded trees structure and animate the landscape. |
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| Hatfield Forest in Essex This is a former medieval hunting forest, complete with coppices, plains, pasture and veteran pollarded trees. |
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| The figures are engulfed in the darkness of deep shadow, which ends, all of a sudden, at a row of fence posts or pollarded trees. |
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| In the front garden there is a small square in which pollarded sycamores have been planted in a symmetrical pattern. |
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| The pollarded willows and hedgerows of northern Europe depend upon regular pruning. |
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| The management of pollarded willows is timeconsuming and labour-intensive, and if they are not maintained, the trees often break apart. |
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| In the context of large-scale agriculture, too, stands of pollarded willows are often regarded as a nuisance and are therefore removed. |
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| Note the lines of pollarded willows, the tree that is characteristic of the Scarpe-Escaut Regional Nature Park and home to nocturnal birds such as the little owl. |
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| The king and Careless took some food and drink and they spent all day hiding in a pollarded oak tree which became known as the Royal Oak. |
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| A major survey of over 1500 veteran pollards that had been pollarded since 1981 was undertaken to ascertain their location, state of re-growth, general health and the numbers of the different species. |
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| Here, the light that reaches the woodland floor is extremely limited owing to the thick growth of the pollarded trees. |
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| In the past, pollarded willows provided a source of wood, e.g. for fencing, shafts for tools, bindings for wine, basket-making etc., but they have no current value from this perspective today. |
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| Stubble, dank furrows, pollarded willows, reedbeds and thatch, the hunched and straitened worker: to begin with, it seems as though Holland was made for Van Gogh or, rather, his drawings. |
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| Is it the row of pollarded trees, waiting to be transformed? |
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| Common practices aimed either at saving the affected trees or at eradicating the inoculum include cutting of whole branches and grafting the pollarded tree with resistant cultivars or species. |
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| I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows. |
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