by Ruth Pybus | Jan 27, 2021 | Products
Fencing – That Old Chestnut! We’ve been falling in love with Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) for a few years now. Once established, it grows strong and straight, responds well to pruning and has started providing a viable seed source from about 20 years old....
by Ruth Pybus | Jan 5, 2021 | Products
No time for hanging about…there’s a gate to be hung! David has been making his own gates for Bron Haul farm for about 25 years. But the satisfaction is all the greater now he is using his own 22-year-old larch. Larch was planted amongst broadleaf in a couple of areas...
by Ruth Pybus | Dec 24, 2020 | Species, Woodland Management
A biodiverse landscape is a beautiful landscape, where diversity creates endless interest for our senses. Wild cherry (Prunus avium) along the woodland margins delights with spring blossom, abuzz in this sheltered, sunny aspect with pollinating insects. The summer...
by Ruth Pybus | Dec 24, 2020 | Woodland Management
These trees are into their 7th growing season and are competing well with the gorse. We first cut the gorse in 2014 before planting (and had a tremendous crop of firewood out of the job). At this point it was about 15ft tall and you could easily walk beneath it! It...
by Ruth Pybus | Dec 13, 2020 | Research
The right tree in the right place is a great way of storing carbon. As well as their great mass being a carbon sink, temperate broadleaf woodland is one of the best land uses to help build mineral soil carbon levels. Add to this, the methane emissions that are no...
