Coppice Story 2021
2021-04-01
It is ten years since I started following the life of an ash coppice stool. A return visit finds the tree still alive but much of its regrowth dead from ash dieback.Continue Reading
Coppice story 2012
2012-06-23
A return visit to the ancient ash coppice stool reveals some worrying …Continue Reading
Sweet chestnut coppice
2011-06-25
This week I had the pleasure of visiting Kent – “England’s garden” – famous for its apple, cherry and cobnut growing. It is also the centre of Britain’s sweet chestnut coppice industry. Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) was introduced to Britain by the Romans some 2000 years ago. Its attraction wasContinue Reading
Coppice lazarus
2011-05-30
I returned to the ancient ash coppice stool last week, to search for the new growth that I had predicted so confidently in my defense of woodland mangement …Continue Reading
Foresters – friend or foe?
2011-01-11
It was an ancient Ash coppice stool; carpeted in green moss, fantastically gnarled and partly hollow. ” This was one our best loved trees. We are sad that you have cut it down?” Bad management or poor communication?Continue Reading
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