by Paradwys » Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:12 pm
all in all about 5.5 acres. 2 acres of mixed planted winter 13/14 (sessile oak, alder, birch, rowan, cherry, hazel,) . 2.5 of 14 year old very mixed wgs planting that had never been managed until we bought the place 2.5 years ago. This consists of ash, sessile oak, birch, alder , rowan, walnut (why?? in N Wales,) cherry, aspen, apple, etc. We have started to turn small compartments into rotational coppice in this wood which is working well. The remainder is mature sycamore with hawthorn and blackthorn understory. The new wood has a mature hedge to the weatherside of blackthorn, hawthorn, ash and gorse. The wgs planting is protected by a wide field margin of scrub to the s west and a mature hedge to 2 other sides with the mature wood to the east. The mature wood is on a steep scarp facing s e.