Please forgive my pedantry, but unless I’ve mistaken you, it looks as if you are pollarding your tree. Coppicing means cutting them down to ground level. I do like to get these terms right as they are age-old woodland-management techniques that we need to understand and retain. Hope you understand. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have a massive one in my garden, and I love it and hate it at the same time.
The pro's: - The bark makes brilliant kindling if you have a log burner in your home (I collect it all summer, store it in my woodshed, and I never have to buy kindling in winter). It constantly sheds bark; apparently that's its defence against climbing plants. - I can spot my garden from a mile away because of it, when I'm out on walks in the surrounding countryside - because the canopy is high and not dense, it doesn't cast a shadow on my bed underneath - it's still a "full sun" bed
The cons: - it's forever shedding branches onto my beds - tree surgeons told me they often come down in storms, sooner or later I'll need to get it removed or dramatically cut back - it's a thirsty tree, making the flower beds below rather dry - pigeons like to sit in it, so I sometimes get an unpleasant deposit landing on me when I'm weeding underneath
Pigeons-yuk. Can’t stand their squalking, it drives me mad, and they are so damaging to the leaves in trees with their antics. Do Tydd st Giles like them at all🥴. Thanks for the tip about kindling 👍
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Please forgive my pedantry, but unless I’ve mistaken you, it looks as if you are pollarding your tree. Coppicing means cutting them down to ground level. I do like to get these terms right as they are age-old woodland-management techniques that we need to understand and retain. Hope you understand. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The pro's:
- The bark makes brilliant kindling if you have a log burner in your home (I collect it all summer, store it in my woodshed, and I never have to buy kindling in winter). It constantly sheds bark; apparently that's its defence against climbing plants.
- I can spot my garden from a mile away because of it, when I'm out on walks in the surrounding countryside
- because the canopy is high and not dense, it doesn't cast a shadow on my bed underneath - it's still a "full sun" bed
The cons:
- it's forever shedding branches onto my beds
- tree surgeons told me they often come down in storms, sooner or later I'll need to get it removed or dramatically cut back
- it's a thirsty tree, making the flower beds below rather dry
- pigeons like to sit in it, so I sometimes get an unpleasant deposit landing on me when I'm weeding underneath