The management technique can allow you to manage woodland, forest or even smaller garden trees in a more sustainable way. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

MY wife and I got caught up in Storm Ali last Wednesday (September 19), during our exploration of the scenic rail routes in the west of Scotland. We were travelling from Oban, on the midday Scotrail ...

Kindest cut: Coppicing brings in extra light allowing plants like Euphrobia amygdaloides 'Rubra' and E. x martini, seen here to flourish Credit: Photo: Marianne Majerus Coppicing is thought to be the ...