Tree topping – when the entire top of a tree is cut off – seems to have become a preferred method of tree pruning. Beauty is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, but is it good or bad for the tree?

Question: An arborist offered to “top” my shade tree that has grown so large that branches touch the house. Should I have him do that? Answer: “Topping” is cutting all tree branches back to an ...

Topped trees are unsightly, unhealthy, and dangerous in the future. Winter is the time of year that glaring examples of tree topping shows up. Crapemyrtles are the most common victim, but this crude ...

As trees grow and reach heights which many consider to be unsafe, tree owners would often top their trees by reducing the tree size. This is by heading back most of the large, live branches from the ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – Spring is next month but experts said now is the perfect time to start landscaping your trees, but one common practice can do more harm than good. Experts say this time of ...

Have you ever witnessed trees being pruned by men with a truck, ladder, and a chainsaw? For everyone who needs a young tree pruned to produce a good structure (which is very important for live oaks) ...

(Scripps Howard)Surely you've noticed the sudden and drastic change in a tree's appearance in your neighborhood. One day it's a beautiful specimen in its natural form. An hour or so later, a chainsaw ...

Winter is a good time to prune trees, but tree topping is a detrimental practice that damages both the health and value of landscape trees. Tree topping - the indiscriminate cutting back of tree ...

From time to time I like to climb up on my soapbox, so here goes. When will people learn that topping trees is wrong? Topping is one of the worst things that can ever be done to a tree. If there were ...

Traditions of tree topping seem to persist even today. After many years of sharing the negative impact of tree topping, I still find that tree topping is often considered by homeowners. I really think ...

As the River Valley and Northwest Arkansas explode into color this spring, local arborists are warning that a common but outdated tree-trimming practice could be doing long-term damage to the region's ...

Topping a tree is one of the worst pruning practice that can be done. Topping is drastically shortening all of a trees branches without regard to where the pruning cut is made. Unfortunately, I saw ...