Walk through mixed woodland coppice

A walk through a 1 acre coppice including hazel, oak, chestnut, larch, birch, wild pear, ash, spruce, western hemlock, cherry and white willow. This is adjacent to the Fruitwise heritage apple orchard.

A sunny day in late February, shows how big newly planted trees can grown in 15 years. Discussion of some of the uses of common trees.

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[Sionnach1601]

I love the reverence U show for the trees. Ur like a big cuddly benevolent father figure to them all!

Seriously though, it's really great to see someone have so much care & respect for trees. As well as greatly beautifying the landscape, they really are such a simple solution to most if not all of our ecological problems on land.

How many have U planted & or liberated to date?

[stephenhayesuk]

@Sionnach1601 Thank you. We have planted several hundred hazel, oak, willow, ash, sweet chestnut , birch, maple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, larch, spruce, western hemlock and a few others. Then there are the fruit trees, about 800 of them.

truly, we are all better off with more trees. We need to remember that the great Sahara desert used to have trees. Desertification should be fought by a global effort of tree planting, and in the future we will need more wood as the oil runs out

[SanitySource]

Expert! there wasn't one you didn't know

the hazel tree was fascinating.

[stephenhayesuk]

''Expert! there wasn't one you didn't know''

well I did plant them all!

seriously, all these trees have a use as well as beauty, watch woodlands TV they are really cool.

[stephenhayesuk]

sorry about a few 'mis-spokes' e.g. re age of trees, questionable estimates of trees' heights etc. I don't use a script and fumble words sometimes. The trees are between 14 and 17 years from planting, some as tiny seedlings, some as 2 year old trees. The oldest tree is 17 years

th emessage is, PLANT MORE TREES.

check out woodlandTV and woodland trust youtubes.

PS youtube has put up a lot of 'related videos' which celebrate a Pagan view of woodland. Not all tree huggers are Pagans!

[Sionnach1601]

I only have a tiny back garden but in 4 yrs my 9 yr old son & I have planted-rescued & transplanted over 100.

If everybody only planted or saved even only one tree, what a beautiful world we'd have. Much better air quality too.

[stephenhayesuk]

These are hazel nuts. Witch hazel is a traditional remedy for sprains.

hazel gives a renewable crop of long straight wooden poles which are used in various coppice crafts making woven fences (hurdles), baskets and does yield nuts-although the squirrels usually eat most of ours. Some hazel varieties are grown commercially for filbert or Kentish cob nuts. Hazel nut paste is used in praline chocolates-delicious nice vids about coppice craft including hazel on WOODLANDSTV youtube channel

[createrainbowz]

what a lovely place you have created, inspiring

[SanitySource]

those are the best types of plants in my opinion. the ones that have a purpose.

by the way, i wonder what it feels like to walk through a little forest where you planted every tree?