Audlem case study
Deadwooding two exposed garden trees in the Audlem countryside
An ash affected by dieback and a poplar containing internal deadwood were carefully pruned and reshaped during one coordinated visit.
- Both trees thoroughly deadwooded
- Poplar reduced and epicormic growth removed
- Completed in one visit by a two-person crew
The project
Managing deadwood where open fields meet the garden
The problem
The ash at this countryside home was affected by ash dieback, while the poplar contained a significant amount of internal deadwood. In a garden exposed to winds across the surrounding fields, the owner was regularly picking up fallen twigs and branches beneath the trees.
What Adam did
A two-person crew deadwooded both trees, removing dead branches from within each crown. Epicormic growth was stripped from the poplar's main stem, its overall height was reduced, and both trees were pruned to create a more balanced shape.
The outcome
The work removed the identified deadwood, cleaned up the poplar's main stem and left both crowns with a more considered shape, all completed during a single visit.
Before and after
Compare the two crowns before and after pruning.
Move the handle across the photograph, or focus it and use your arrow keys. ( ... the garden was tidied after.)
Before 
The same ash and poplar after deadwood was removed and both crowns were reshaped
The trees up close
Assessing the growth and refining each crown
Genuine photographs from the same Audlem visit show the trees before work, a closer view within the poplar and the finished crowns from across the garden.
