{"id":3378,"date":"2012-03-17T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2012-03-18T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T14:46:40","slug":"pollard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/pollard\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1215_0023-top-pruned.jpg\" alt=\"maple\"><br \/>\nOne consequence of pollarding is that pollarded trees tend to live longer than unpollarded specimens because they are maintained in a partially juvenile state, and they do not have the weight and windage of the top part of the tree.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pollarding\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1215_0029-pollarded-sycamore.jpg\" alt=\"not easy being an urban tree\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cm1218-L1378-street-tree.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nPollards cut at only about a metre or so above the ground are called stubs (or stubbs). These were often used as markers in coppice or other woodland. Stubs cannot be used where the trees are browsed by animals, as the regrowing shoots are below the browse line.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pollarding\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One consequence of pollarding is that pollarded trees tend to live longer than unpollarded specimens because they are maintained in a partially juvenile state, and they do not have the weight and windage of the top part of the tree.&#8211;Wikipedia Pollards cut at only about a metre or so above the ground are called stubs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/pollard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pollard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}