Search results for query: *

Trees get big by not falling. Why punish success?

My daughter is five, she saw the "Topping Trees Is Bad" sticker that came in one of my Sherrill's orders and fixated on it. She has it stuck facing outward on her bedroom window. She sees no shades of grey in the matter because she is five. To her coppicing, pollarding or shaping a fruit tree...

Calling your post stupid isn't cool either. Stick around, I think we're all big enough to get through this.

I don't know, calling someone Einstein could possibly be taken as condescension.

Pollarding doesn't bother me. Those 200 year old lindens are cool. I am doubtful they would have lasted that long without being pollarded.

I found this in Websters, " working for hire especially with mediocre professional standards." I started out doing hack work because I didn't know any better. My standards are better now but I am sure I could do even better. I do not use the term myself because it seems to suppose intent...