Each spring the huge plane trees along the road to Lucca and on the walls take turns to get a haircut. You would wonder that they would ever recover, but they do.
pruning time
the cars just carry on
The poor trees look so sad when they are chopped off.
how do they recover from this?
you can see the first signs of growth
The trees in Piazza Napoleone in Lucca were pruned a bit earlier and they are recovering nicely.
Piazza Napoleone
It won’t be too long before they look like this again.
plane trees on the Lucca wall
If you look towards the bottom of the photo you will see 2 people – this will give you an idea of the size of the wall – and the trees.
They are huge!!!! London is full of plane trees too – it’s horrible seeing them being pruned though. I know what you mean. That’s a great photo to show scale! Trees are hard to photograph sometimes aren’t they?
By: Joanna @ Zeb Bakes on May 26, 2011
at 11:07 am
I hate to see them chopped down, but they do recover. It takes a couple of years before they look good again. I have better photos of the trees, but that one really shows the size well.
By: bagnidilucca on May 26, 2011
at 11:54 am
Ha! That looks like the equivalent of a number one on the hair clippers!
By: Lorraine NotQuiteNigella on May 27, 2011
at 3:02 am
It’s pretty savage isn’t it?
By: bagnidilucca on May 27, 2011
at 5:46 am
Wow, thanks for pointing out the size of those trees. I wouldn’t have noticed the people on my phone image otherwise!
By: Theresa Lauf on May 27, 2011
at 6:05 am
Those trees are huge and very beautiful. I hate it when they cut them.
By: bagnidilucca on May 27, 2011
at 8:53 am
They’ve started pruning trees in my suburb & they do look awfully cold & well…. short, just like your tree. That’s one big wall isn’t it, one very big retaining wall.
By: Anna Johnston on May 27, 2011
at 7:39 am
The wall is enormous and the only completely intact wall in Italy. It is 4.2 kilometres around.
By: bagnidilucca on May 27, 2011
at 8:54 am