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 it looks like tree topping, is it tree topping? In Kentucky, that depends on the expert. A well-regarded arborist cut the tops out of two street trees in Butchertown last week, even though a new ...

Topping is a bad way to go about pruning, harming trees in terms of health as well as beauty. Getty Images/iStockphoto I have had it! I just have to express my ire at the way some local trees are ...