![]() When it starts to grow it will put out rods all around the sides of the stool. The part of the cutting that protrudes above the ground is called a stool. These are fine to get a good root structure going although I prefer the longer sections myself and have soft enough soil to push it three quarters of the way in. Cutting should be 18 to 30 cms long and 8 mm to 1 cm diameter. To plant a coppice all you need to do is to make cuttings from straight branches that you have cut before and push them into the ground in the early Spring around now. Even a small piece dropped onto the ground will be a sizeable shrub in a year’s time! Unlike some of the other trees where I feel quite guilty even trimming off the lower branches, willow grows like a weed. You don’t have to be gentle when cutting back willow. As a result they had grown spindly and weak (crowding out good trees like the Oak Quercus robur, Chestnut Castanea sativa and Maples Acer campestre) and the high winter winds in January were the final nail in the coffin, causing a lot of them to keel over completely. They were planted quite close to each other which is fine for coppicing but them not pruned back for some years. I have a large amount of willow, across several species, that I inherited in a rather poor condition. Last weekend, mid February, I spent coppicing – cutting back my willow Salix spp. ![]()
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