I was traveling for Christmas and couldn’t help but notice these poor trees being butchered at an Exxon station when we stopped for gas. The last two pictures are the trees they hadn’t got to yet. It obviously wasn’t the first year these guys had “pruned” this set of trees.
They advertised “proper pruning” as one of the services offered. It was plastered all over each truck.
Of course it was a landscaping company.
by GreatfulGroundie
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Criminal
Those trees were already stressed judging by the shoots at the base, now they’re doubly stressed.
Name shame
Properly fucked
why cant people understand to never trust “landscaping” companies with trees
Pro tip: look on indeed and see how much these companies are paying their people. Every landscaping company ever is an “expert team with years of experience”. If they pay mow and blow wages you’re gonna get a mow and blow crew on your property.
The pictures with the “intact” canopies are under powerlines; just as an observation
Just to pre-empt this for anyone coming in to say how pollarding is a valid practice with long traditions: Yes, that’s true. This isn’t pollarding, however, it’s topping, which is never proper practice, though the two are often confused for each other by those who don’t know better.
For the non experts, how is proper pruning done?
The fact that people get paid for this blows my mind.
Are those Bradford pears? If so, the proper pruning would be about 1 inch above the ground.
I see some French bread cuts, which is fine for bread, but not in urban forestry!