1. Good Together: Curly-leaved Willow & Golden Scots Elm
(A Gardening Journal)

Change comes to gardens whether or not it was your idea. This past June, I pollarded the golden Scots elm in exasperation that it had still not flowered despite my having let it mature for three years. ...

2. Curly-leaved willow pollard in Winter
(A Gardening Journal)

Although the leaves of this curly willow had fallen by November, the tree looks lively all Winter.  Could the bark on these branches be any greener?

3. Curly-leaved willow pollard
(A Gardening Journal)

This is the tree that looks like it was dreamed up in an arts-and-crafts class:  Stick spirals of green paper on twigs, and there you are.