Apart from the enjoyment of making household items out of stems, coppicing trees and shrubs has aesthetic and eco benefits for gardens Back in late spring when we got the keys to our new house in ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After a year pruning shrubs, dividing and moving herbaceous plants and clearing layers of debris, I have a feel ...
Coppicing may seem, on paper, a somewhat brutal pruning technique as trees or shrubs are cut back to the ground. However, it is a historic and beneficial method of managing plants that comes with ...
Much has been written about crape murder and the practice of “topping” trees. Unfortunately, at this time of year, the work of tree hackers, both professional and layman, is evident just about ...
It was gratifying to see the piece on coppicing (“The ancient craft of coppicing”, House & Home, FT Weekend, February 26). Coppicing is our longest established form of woodland management, with ...
Want to create space and colour and harvest your own firewood? Coppicing trees and shrubs is well worth the effort Let the sunshine in: more light will encourage new plants to colonise Credit: Photo: ...
I had joined a group of volunteers in Bull’s Wood, a Suffolk Wildlife Trust reserve in the west Suffolk village of Cockfield close to Lavenham, to help (I hope) with their ongoing coppicing work.