Birding and other pleasures and aggravations, in Berkeley and beyond, by Ron Sullivan.
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One of these days I’m going to be techiefied enough to start a Hollaback variation for bad pruning. Maybe “Hollabark”?
This poor butchered mess of a tree was a healthy (as far as I could tell) sweetgum in a small yard not far from us in Berkeley. Enlarge and/or look at the other four photos in the Flickr set to see its pitiful effort at leafing out now, in spring.
Posted by: Ron Sullivan
3 | By: kathy a on April 26, 2008 at 04:48 PM
ron, you are the go-to person about bad pruning! this tree looks like it might not come back.
4 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 27, 2008 at 07:31 AM
And if it does, it’ll be a hazard in a couple of years. Damn I hate slow death.
Yeah, I know I’ve branded myself, so to speak, as Bad Pruning Howler. With a little more ambition, energy, and cunning I could be Bad Pruning Avenger. You do know that pruning this bad is actually illegal in San Francisco, right? At least on public trees. Pity Berkeley’s so backward on this.
5 | By: VS on April 27, 2008 at 08:48 AM
Other possible names: Hellabark? This bark really bites? Silence of the Limbs? Amputrees? Out of a limb? Limbo? Limb-BAD-a, the forbidden pruning? Guantanamo Bay Leaves? Leave the trees alone? Prune juice?
Ever wondered why I don’t put my real name on these things? Now you know.
6 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 27, 2008 at 08:28 PM
But IIIIIIII know who you are!!!
(Even when the cell phone’s stuck somewhere deep in a backpack and set on Vibrate for two-three days. Hello anyway.)
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1 | By: kathy a on April 26, 2008 at 02:20 PM
oh, sad. there is a butchered tree near us that made me think of you this morning.