Coppicing can give you fence posts, stakes, and long branches to use in garden fencing, for plant supports, and in other projects. It can also give you firewood for a wood burner or rocket mass stove.

Coppicing fell out of fashion here later in the 20th century because of labour costs and cheaper imports. But for a gardener wanting some firewood or beanpoles, ...

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 ...

Coppicing provided the raw material for charcoal to feed furnaces at the dawn of industrialisation. Today, faggots are used to help stabilise river banks and coppiced chestnut poles are used in ...

Apart from the enjoyment of making household items out of stems, coppicing trees and shrubs has aesthetic and eco benefits for gardens. Skip to main content Skip to navigation.

Coppicing means the regular cutting back of all shoots and top growth right down to a stump or 'stool'. This is always done in the winter months and so, as with all winter pruning, ...

National Trust to use coppicing in bid to boost nightingale numbers in Suffolk It will be the first time the technique has been used at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk since 1987. Sam Russell.

Coppicing took place close to the base with a saw, and new growth can come from epicormic buds down the stem. Every couple of years, some of these stems will be removed to trigger the growth of more.

Coppicing is an ancient technique: the world’s oldest known road was built in southern England about 4500 BC using coppiced stems. More recently coppicing provided feed for stock in winter and ...

MOST of my gardening this week has been concerned with tree pruning. At the weekend, I spent a day at my elder brother’s home in Yorkshire, helping him to thin some trees from the small patch of ...

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 ...