Posted: 15/08/2012 at 20:34
My parents have a bramley apple tree which is prob over 40 years old! Always fruited wonderfully, in recent years a woodpecker appears to have damaged the trunk of tree and this year there have been few apples and most of the top of the tree looks completely dead. However the tree is throwing out new growth from lower down, is there a chance that if they lop off the top of the tree it might recover?
