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More Plough Field Allotments at Amerton
Gardening
Tips
Unusual
& Old
Unusual Environmental Issues And Going Green. Vines And Other Climbing Plants.
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Hazel Trees. Hazel Trees or Corylus
Avellana are of course Native to the UK and seen everywhere. If left to
grow this deciduous tree can get up to 12 m in height and live for some
80 years. However, it has long been the practice of woodsmen to
“Coppice,” trees which basically means to cut the trunks at quite a low
level and harvest the timber. This forces the tree to re-shoot throwing
up many fresh shoots that grow straight up. These can again be harvested
every 3 or 4 years to yield large numbers of straight poles that can be
used in all sorts of ways. If the older stems are cut out selectively it
is possible to leave enough mature stems to still get a Nut harvest
every year. Coppicing also has the unusual benefit of extending the life
of the tree to many hundreds of years. It also means that even a wild
tree can be so restricted in size that it can happily be found a home in
many back gardens.
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