{"id":1161,"date":"2013-04-19T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:34:43","slug":"the-self-renewing-power-of-trees-by-isla-denton-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/the-self-renewing-power-of-trees-by-isla-denton-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"The self-renewing power of trees by Isla Denton-Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>1 Minute, 55 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Tom\u2019s previous blog quite rightly warned that we shouldn\u2019t be too quick to cut down trees.\u00a0 Well what have I been up to this winter? I\u2019ve been out with the chainsaw gathering fuel for my wood burner and bean polls for the allotment! But wait, hush your gasps, I\u2019ve not been massacring the majestic mature trees that Tom was championing but instead partaking in the ancient practice of coppicing. If you are not familiar with the term, coppicing involves cutting a tree down to a stump and then allowing it to regrow into multiple stems. In time these new stems can be cut down and so the cycle can continue. Broadleaved trees respond best to this method.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1162\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coppice-bosham-sheep-012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1162\" alt=\"This year\u2019s harvest from two hazel coppice stools \" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coppice-bosham-sheep-012-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coppice-bosham-sheep-012-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/coppice-bosham-sheep-012.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year\u2019s harvest from two hazel coppice stools<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">To be quiet honest with you I leave the chainsawing to my other half and I mainly do the brash clearance and the wood stacking. But I have been known to wield the axe! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">It\u2019s heavy work to produce a wood pile which after 2 to 3 years of drying will be keeping us warm through the winter months\u2026as my Dad always says: coppicing warms you twice \u2013 once in the cutting and again in the burning!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/weald-and-downland-museum-west-dean-161.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1163\" alt=\"The ancient craft of hurdle making produced from hazel coppice on display at the Weald and Downland museum \" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/weald-and-downland-museum-west-dean-161-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/weald-and-downland-museum-west-dean-161-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/weald-and-downland-museum-west-dean-161.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ancient craft of hurdle making produced from hazel coppice on display at the Weald and Downland museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Coppicing has many benefits and through the ages has been used to produce fuel, fencing, building materials, baskets etc.\u00a0 and it\u2019s not just\u00a0 useful to humans! The sunlit glades produced by coppice rotation are also great for wildlife. \u00a0Our native bluebell particularly enjoys establishing itself under coppice stools. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1164\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/skiing-blue-bell-walk-levin-down-064.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1164\" alt=\"Bluebells in coppice woodland near Chichester \" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/skiing-blue-bell-walk-levin-down-064-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/skiing-blue-bell-walk-levin-down-064-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/skiing-blue-bell-walk-levin-down-064.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebells in coppice woodland near Chichester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">As the Landscape historian Oliver Rackham succinctly puts it \u2018when a wood disappears one should not ask \u2018why was it cut down\u2019 \u2026 but \u2018why did it not regrow\u2019\u2019?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">However I will leave you with a conundrum: should we take our chainsaw to this majestic mature sweet chestnut stool (pictured below)? Maybe this specimen is worth keeping?<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1165\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nr-stedham.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1165\" alt=\"A mature sweet chestnut coppice stool near Stedham, West Sussex  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nr-stedham-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nr-stedham-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.terrafirmaconsultancy.com\/landscape-architect-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nr-stedham.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 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