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: ...

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 ...

You can grow firewood by coppicing trees for firewood in a fraction of the time it takes to raise a tree from seed. Of all the forestry techniques available to woodland owners, few methods are as ...

Just about any other arborist will say that pollarding and coppicing are wrong. These techniques ruin trees so that they can never develop into their natural form. Although restorative pruning after ...