![]() ![]() The aim is to rejuvenate them and ensure their healthy survival into the future. We have started a rolling plan to coppice a stretch of Laburnums every year. ![]() The trees start to look less healthy, with leaves yellowing and falling early in the season. ![]() As the trunks lean out from, and sometimes fall out of the hedgerow the base of the tree starts to crack, letting water and rot enter. In the last two summers, we have had incidences of trunks in full leaf being blown out of the hedgerow. As these trunks become very large, the trees can become increasingly unstable. The trees are multi-stemmed, presumably as a result of coppicing in the past. In late June / early July they give a glorious display, being covered with long racemes of yellow flowers. The Trust land has many Laburnums in it’s hedgerow, as is typical of this corner of Dyfed. The Two-Man Cross Cut Saw also got it’s first outing, as did an amazing pole saw which did sterling work clearing branches that were overhanging an access track. Nick and Barbara of Coppice Wood Collage showed volunteers how to fell using our new American felling axe and a couple of people had fun trying out this new skill. All of the work was achieved using hand tools, many of which we have just purchased with a grant from Environment Wales. The main task of the day was to begin coppicing some Laburnums. A volunteer using the felling axe.Įight of us gathered on Sunday 13th October for our Volunteer Workday. ![]()
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