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 ...

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: ...

April 11, 2001 10:45: An exciting new pilot project by a local environmental group will mean a vital ecological activity not seen locally for over 50 years is to be seen again. Volunteers from Croydon ...

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 ...

A new mapping project in England could act as a catalyst to encourage landowners to actively manage neglected coppice woodlands, creating opportunities for wildlife and a source of diversified income.

The colourful carpet of wild primroses, anemones, bluebells and violets beneath the canopy is a spring highlight - and you can recreate it in your garden. My favourite plants at this time of year are ...

More than 30 coppice workers from all over Surrey and Sussex met at the Hollist Arms in Lodsworth, West Sussex, to discuss the formation of a new workers' group, which will possibly be called the ...

Jane Marriott talks to Alex and Nicola Marson, who are restoring their timber-framed cottage in East Hagbourne using traditional building methods Traditional skills are being combined to produce a ...