Friday, February 27, 2015

Pollarding in Paris

The French have mastered the fine art of tree trimming. Since my first visit to Paris in 2007, I have been fascinated at the way they manicure the trees in the gardens. I've learned since,  this technique is called pollarding. Love seeing it in the fall at Tuileries.

7 comments:

sillygirl said...

A fellow tour member called it "tortured trees".

Alexa said...

I love the symmetry—and the colors in this shot too.

RedPat said...

It often ends up as butchery in the wrong hands and you get such ugly tree specimens.

Joe said...

Autumn Colour at its best V

William Kendall said...

That's a new term to me.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

Off to Google pollarding Virginia :)

roamingpursuits said...

Beautiful scenery.