An unsatisfactory approach to tree maintenance or pruning is “topping” it. Topping is the indiscriminant removal of branches of a tree above an arbitrary height, leaving unnatural, grotesque stubs and ...

If a bad haircut was fatal, you would be very choosy about your hairstyle. But each year, hundreds of homeowners have their trees pruned by topping, a horticultural “bad haircut” that shortens the ...

We don’t get hurricanes, so that isn’t it. A: There is no good reason for what was done to those trees. The pruning style is called tree topping and it is simply bad for the trees.

Q. Many times I have read, “Never top a tree!” I have also read that we should keep fruit trees at 8 feet for easy picking. And the avocado experts recommend keeping avocado trees at 11 feet.

John Walkowiak says one of the most common mistakes you can make is what’s called “topping” a tree — a radical cutting back of its branches. Walkowiak says tree topping is often done when ...

As the River Valley and Northwest Arkansas explode into color this spring, local arborists are warning that a common but outdated tree-trimming practice could be doing long-term damage to the ...

The arborists fear the "topping" will encourage other businesses to do the same. And they say what had been Louisville's best example of how parking lot owners can use trees to cool hot blacktop ...