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The management technique can allow you to manage woodland, forest or even smaller garden trees in a more sustainable way. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food, Liam Aylward, has launched a new series of Teagasc leaflets on hedgerow management for farmers. The series consists of four leaflets which detail the ...

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 ...

Meghan Holmes is a writer and documentarian specializing in scientific topics such as the environment, invasive species, sustainability, and food issues. She holds a master's in Southern Studies from ...

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 ...

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 ...

HEDGEROWS in Sandbanks have been branded an "eyesore" after they were ‘cut back to stumps’. BCP Council has cut the hedges lining Banks Road as part of a regeneration project called ‘hard pruning’. A ...