Can you coppice rowan

The slender poles with their smooth, slightly shining, dove grey bark makes a telling landscape feature. Posted by Patrick Roper at Labels: rowan coppice wood. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. About Me Patrick Roper View my complete profile. It would take years to return to fruiting size from coppicing, but from pollard should only take years. Last edited by ameno ; , PM. Cut the dead parts out next Spring when the tree starts growing again would be my advice - if the tree has been attacked by a fungus it may die anyway - good luck PS keep an eye open for seedlings nearby, usually where birds have been perching Latest Topics.

Reply to Composting. View All. Recent Blog Posts. Mothhawks - Orange curd tart. Reply to Nicos Orecchiette Sausage Pasta. Nicos Orecchiette Sausage Pasta. Yes No. OK Cancel. In the next couple of weeks I am pollarding and thinning out a row of about 25 oak trees for a friend. We are going halves on the wood! Following Phillip Marshalls excellent article, I see that birch are a bit problematic.

Does anyone have experience of pollarding rowan. We have a small wood in Aberangell and have removed youngish conifers from about 5 acres and have another 5 acres of mixed oak, rowan, and birch.

In the cleared areas we have left hundreds of self seeded rowan and birch with very few oak. Most of them are tall and thin and we would like to pollard most of them well above sheep height. Earlier attempts with rowan ended in tree rotting back. Glad you liked the article, I am afraid I must confess to being the author. It was written to try and enthuse others about pollarding by relating my experiences.

Like you, I have pollarded a number of rowan and not been happy with the result. Although they have all produced new shoots, they seem to lack vigour and all have numerous depressions on the re-growth which looks like canker.

Also, the number of new shoots is quite low and like beech they seem to originate mainly from the rim of the cut main stem which makes them vulnerable to drying out. I have reverted to coppicing rowan and get much better results; perhaps they respond like hazel does by sending out new shoots from the root area and this makes for stronger growth. However, there are old pollard rowans about. Birch will pollard well but try on stems at no more than 50mm diameter at the height you are cutting at.