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.