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 feel ...

FARMERS and contractors are still waiting for the go-ahead for a big expansion of short rotation coppice (SRC) production. The prospect of producing willow or poplar chippings for use as a power ...

Coppicing is an old method of farming trees, that involves cutting the branches of trees right down low. Many eucalyptus will respond to this treatment. Jane is looking at a Eucalyptus cladocalyx ...

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Much has been written about crape murder and the practice of “topping” trees. Unfortunately, at this time of year, the work of tree hackers, both professional and layman, is evident just about ...

It will be the first time the technique has been used at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk since 1987. Coppicing work takes place at Sutton Hoo (National Trust Images/Darren Olley/PA) The nightingale population ...

Want to create space and colour and harvest your own firewood? Coppicing trees and shrubs is well worth the effort Let the sunshine in: more light will encourage new plants to colonise Credit: Photo: ...