Landlord sends someone to 'trim' backyard tree—no one prepared for result

For context, pollarding is a severe pruning technique in which the upper branches of a tree are removed, leaving a trunk and perhaps a few scaffold limbs. According to the Royal Horticultural Society ...
Southeast Missourian

Pollarding trees is useful and pretty

You either like the look of a tree that has been pollarded, or you do not. It's not a natural look. This time of year, a pollarded tree presents a trunk capped by a clubbed head, or a trunk with short ...
Napa Valley Register

Pollarding trees can useful and, to some, pretty this time of year

You either like the look of a tree that has been pollarded, or you do not. It's not a natural look. This time of year, a pollarded tree presents a trunk capped by a clubbed head, or a trunk with short ...
Yahoo

If You See A Tree's Branches Cut Back To Its Trunk, It Could Only Mean One Thing

Trees undoubtedly go through a number of changes, some of which are caused by human landscaping methods. You might be used to seeing occasional trimming, or even a tree completely removed from an area ...