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: ...

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 ...

Most of the topics in these columns are inspired by my own current gardening activities, whether in my own or another garden. Currently, I am engaged in the rejuvenation pruning of a large shrub, so ...

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 ...

Beltinge residents have voiced their disapproval after contractors moved in to cut back trees on a woodland path. Dozens of trees were coppiced last week on the edge of Reculver Countryside Park on a ...

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 ...

Giandiego Campetella, Roberto Canullo, Alessandro Gimona, Janos Garadnai, Alessandro Chiarucci, Daniele Giorgini, Elia Angelini, Marco Cervellini, Stefano Chelli ...

Distant church bells are about all I can hear as I stand below a 500-year-old small-leaved lime – a tree that may be making an unlikely comeback ...