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 ...

I'm not sure what catches my eye but I think it is the hole in a nut. Looking down, under arching hazels dripping with rain, there is a litter of split shells on the ground, freshly worked, randomly ...

Apart from the enjoyment of making household items out of stems, coppicing trees and shrubs has aesthetic and eco benefits for gardens Back in late spring when we got the keys to our new house in ...

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: ...

Chris Sperring is joined by botonist Andy Byfield and coppicer David Partridge on a tour of a Dorset hazel coppice, where recently cut areas are awash with springtime flowers. Show more The ancient ...