Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Tree regeneration - Coppicing, saplings and seeds

Acorn germinating

If the acorns float in a bucket of water, 
they won't germinate, so only bother with those that sink.
Sessile oak and acorn

 Coppiced lime


Sapling

Our main tree generating is "Coppicing" but we have also, in the past, planted saplings.
So here's a third method, germinating a few acorns from a Sessile oak.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Coppicing

3.5.2014
A previously coppiced and regenerated sycamore tree




Coppicing
3 offshoots of sycamore

Uses:-
Continued life of a tree, so it doesn't die of old age but regenerates from the roots.
Dead hedging for camp pitch boundaries.
Wildlife refuge.
Wind breaks.
More privacy/boundaries in some cases.