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: ...

A plant that's cut back close to ground level and results in the production of young, vigorous stems has been subject to a process called coppicing. If that process takes place further up the trunk, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coppicing is an old method of farming trees, that involves cutting the branches of trees right down low. Many eucalyptus will respond to this treatment. Jane is looking at a Eucalyptus cladocalyx ...

Coppicing and pollarding are the most extreme of pruning techniques. They may also be among the oldest in some cultures. Yet, arborists are correct to condemn both as improper. Coppicing is the ...

Traditional woodland management techniques have been used by the National Trust to improve biodiversity Ancient woodland management techniques have been used to tackle climate change and increase ...

An ancient system of woodland management is being planned to boost the nightingale population at an important archaeological site. The songbirds are mentioned in Netflix film The Dig, about the 1939 ...