Monday, 25 January 2010

Pollarding in Primrose Hill

Pollarded London Plane Tree (Platanus x hispanica) in Primrose Hill

Primrose Hill, North London, January 2010

Pollarding is method of pruning back trees to a certain height to restrict their growth, in London it is usually to prevent damage to electrical wires and obstruction of street lights. 
Posted by westendmum at 13:34
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Other nonsense

  • Diet Trial PART 2
    My tests came back with intolerances to yeast and egg white, so I am to avoid both for 4 weeks starting from the 15th June. The dietian said...
  • Is there a right time to have a baby?
    I think it all depends on the person. Some girls can’t wait to start their own family, have already got grandchildren by the time they ar...
  • Whistlejacket
    ‘ Whistlejacket by George Stubbs, in the National Gallery, London 2009 Took Erbie to see George Stubbs, Whistlejacket in the The National...
  • Note to self.
    Go here  Craftacular  .
  • Saturday outing: Hamleys Toy Shop London or ‘The Toy Museum’
    Regents Street in the morning I have been working from home for the whole Easter break, tied to a computer with poor Erbie by m...
  • New Years Resolutions.
    The usual waking on New Years day bleary eyed and remorseful after too much of everything bad and good with vows of never again and nurofe...
  • Raspberry faced baboon
    Since denying Erbie the boob, (it’s been 10 days) I have been wracked with guilt and have bought him several presents, that i would normally...

Quote of the day

‘They tuck you up your mum and dad...’
Anon - after Larkin

“Philately will get you everywhere”
WEM

“It’s not the despair, I can handle the despair. 
It’s the hope I can’t deal with”
Clockwise

“Each new friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

‘Come on Dover move your bloomin’ arse’.
Eliza Doolittle