Witch-hazel tree Hamamelis virginiana
Witch-hazel tree Hamamelis virginiana in bloom in winter. Illustration shows snow on the ground, and twigs visible.
Witch-hazel tree Hamamelis virginiana
Witch-hazel tree Hamamelis virginiana in bloom in winter. Illustration shows snow on the ground, and twigs visible.
Witch-hazel Hamamelis virginiana
Witch hazel Hamamelis virginiana sprig and individual flower
Hazel Corylus avellana hazelnuts
Hazel showing hazelnut selection and iconic catkins
Hazel Corylus avellana tree
Hazel tree showing typical shrubby growth pattern and habit
Wildflower border
Wildflower border roughly following seasonal growth with hellebore, anenome, bluebell and daffodil showing spring; winter aconite, witch hazel, and snowdrops for winter; scabious, foxglove, dog rose, knapweed, poppy, terasel, fringed waterlily and a painted butterfly for summer; mistletoe, Ivy with a spider, violets, holly, primrose, and a hoverfly also make an appearance
Hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius
Hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius eating a red berry and looking at the viewer with small amount of foliage behind
Pollarding trees
How to pollard a tree by pruning
Hedge laying
Steps involved in establishing or laying a new hedge showing digging a trench for compost, planting the hedge plants, pruning them, and keeping the hedge straight
Hedge shapes
Different shapes you can trim your hedge into including boxy, sloped, and rounded
Woodland landscape for best practice management
Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]
Ancient woodland landscape with bluebells and moths
Landscape showing an ancient oak woodland with oak trees which were last pollarded years ago, the under storey is carpeted with bluebells, the trees are hung with lichen, and there are moths in the foreground settled on a patch of wild spring flowers
Ancient oak woodland landscape with bullfinch, orange tip, and wild spring flowers
Old oak woodland with bullfinch, woodpecker, badger, orange tip butterfly, vole, and ground beetle in amongst the plants growing on the forest floor below the spreading oaks
Bluebell wood with redstart and a walkway across a woodland stream
Bluebell wood with the spring flowrs carpeting the forest floor, in the foreground a male redstart perches on a tree stump with lichen, behind are some butterflies and a pied flycatcher perches on the wooden bridge walkway that covers an area of boggy ground, beyond the path stretches away into distant airy woodland and sunlight