Gardeners are being urged to purchase coppiced beanpoles, sourced from local forests, to help protect birds such as the nightingale. Bringing coppiced woodlands back to our countryside will help threatened birds including nightingales and willow warblers, according to the RSPB. Coppicing is the craft of carefully cutting trees to ground level and managing the new shoots … [Read more...] about National beanpole week highlights plight of birds
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Lake District Trees at Aintree
Trees from the Forestry Commission estate at Grizedale Forest in south Cumbria will once again be making a star appearance at this year’s John Smith’s Grand National race, at Aintree in Liverpool on 10 April 2010 Over 60 tonnes of spruce branches from Grizedale are used for the event’s 30 jump fences. The fence-building programme begins a month before the Grand … [Read more...] about Lake District Trees at Aintree