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Pruning vs Pollarding - What's the difference?

pruning | pollarding |

As verbs the difference between pruning and pollarding

is that pruning is while pollarding is .

As a noun pruning

is a removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.

pruning

English

Noun

  • A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
  • (countable) Something obtained by pruning, as a twig.
  • (computer science) A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
  • Derived terms

    * alpha-beta pruning

    Verb

    (head)
  • pollarding

    Verb

    (head)