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 ...

Deciduous tree pruning season is upon us. Late winter, heading into spring, is the best time to prune your shade trees to improve their structure, health and beauty for a long life. Unfortunately, ...

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 ...