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I agree completely. hacking off the top with a chainsaw indiscriminately is very easy and quick. Going in and selectively picking out cross branches, diseased limbs, suckers, etc. is very time consuming. Which do you think $10 an hr laborers is going to do?
Neither one is necessary. People murder them, because they think the trees will only bloom on new growth. This is not true, since unpruned trees can be seen in bloom everywhere.
I notice these whole taking a walk in Houston. These look like very old trees based on the size of the trunks. What a disaster how they were topped off probably by some chainsaw happy landscaper. Attaching photo.
I had a neighbor do this to a southern sugar maple last year. Thankfully it is dying now. Another year or two and it will be gone. Unfortunately, the kinds of people that would do this to a sugar maple are likely to plant a Bradford pear or silver maple in its place.
I had a neighbor do this to a southern sugar maple last year. Thankfully it is dying now. Another year or two and it will be gone. Unfortunately, the kinds of people that would do this to a sugar maple are likely to plant a Bradford pear or silver maple in its place.
Oh silver maples are fine. People go way overboard about stories of them splitting and breaking.
They are great trees, absolutely beautiful to look at, especially in autumn, and a native tree which is home to many species. Much better than continue the non-native invasion spread.
Now the Bradford pear - if you are careful about lopping boughs coming off 90 degrees you'll also be fine. But they stink at blossom time.
I am so appreciative of this thread. I only have one crape myrtle and although I would never commit crape murder, I learned enough to be a confident pruner.
Now, who will ever influence my neighbor, "Speedo Man," who will commit his annual chain saw massacre, the weekend before Easter? God willing, the temp will be low.
I have a non-bearing Bradford pear tree, and it grows and grows, and the branches break!
It really needs a good pruning. It's been a few years since the last time.
It gives great shade tho!!
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