Amateur Gardening

Mammoth undertakings

THE ancient art of coppicing involves felling a tree to stimulate new growth from the stump, and it dates back to prehistoric times – long before Percy Thrower had picked up a pipe and pruning saw.

To our bucolic ancestors, the woodlands were workshops, where the straight poles of coppiced

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