Tree regeneration - Coppicing, saplings and seeds

Acorn germinating

If the acorns float in a bucket of water, 

they won't germinate, so only bother with those that sink.

Sessile oak and acorn

 Coppiced lime

Sapling

Our main tree generating is "Coppicing" but we have also, in the past, planted saplings.

So here's a third method, germinating a few acorns from a Sessile oak.

Coppicing

3.5.2014

A previously coppiced and regenerated sycamore tree

Coppicing
3 offshoots of sycamore

Uses:-
Continued life of a tree, so it doesn't die of old age but regenerates from the roots.
Dead hedging for camp pitch boundaries.
Wildlife refuge.
Wind breaks.
More privacy/boundaries in some cases.