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Coppicing cherries and damsons
There's a damson that fell over in the wind and has become an obstacle. It's quite large. Can it be coppiced?
I read that some cherries can, but their regrowth is weak.
I have a large wild cherry, with its top snapped off, and lots of dead branches. Smothered previously by a climber. It has turned into quite a horrible shape, which is such a shame, as the trunk has plenty of girth. I don't think I can tidy it with pruning. Could this be coppiced or pollarded? Or should I just give up on it?
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re the wild cherry, it will throw up new shoots from the coppice but also sucker, maybe suckering already? One of the suckers would make a better shaped tree for the future. The coppice will never be shapely
re the damson, is it a grafted tree, a named cultivar?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think the damson is wild.
I expect it will shoot, though, as with the cherry, a cluster of shoots rather than a tree. You could let a single shoot grow to produce a tree
In the sticks near Peterborough