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Deodar Cedar
Lots of cones
Douglas Fir
Coast Redwood
Western Red Cedar
Norway Spruce
Big Cone Douglas Fir
Sequoia
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Maritime Pine
Cedar of Lebanon
Spanish Fir
Stone Pine
Juniper
Japanese Red Cedar
Thuja
Dunkeld Larch
Leylandii
Incense Cedar
Swamp Cypress & Dawn Redwood
Jeffrey Pine
Monterey Pine
Nootka
Norway Spruce
Western Hemlock
Oriental Pine
Western Hemlock
Scots Pine
Noble Fir
Larch
Japanese Douglas Fir
Tiger Tail Spruce
Giant Redwood
Monterey Cypress
Bhutan Pine
Brewers Spruce
Leylandii
Dawn Cedar
Carolina Hemlock
Sitka Spruce
Montezuma Pine
Lawson Cypress
Chinese fir
Incense Cedar
Umbrella Pine
Patagonian Cypress
Oriental Spruce
Taiwania
Sitka Spruce
Eastern Hemlock
Chinese Fir
Western Himalayan Pine
Juniper
Sequoia
Lawson's Cypress
Jeza Spruce
Corsican Pine
Giant Redwood
Deodar Cedar
Lots of cones
Douglas Fir
Coast Redwood
Western Red Cedar
Norway Spruce
Big Cone Douglas Fir
Sequoia
Japanese Red Cedar (2).jpg
Maritime Pine
Cedar of Lebanon
Spanish Fir
 

Conifers

We’ve always been lovers of traditional broadleaf woodland.  Most of the conifers we’ve encountered have been in plantations, where they’re been planted to produce timber in a short time frame.  Conifer plantations can sometimes seem sterile in comparison to a broadleaf woodland, with the floor devoid of anything other than needles and the odd wood ant colony.  Often trees fall over because they have a shallow root system.  Still, they can be a useful resource for our bushcraft (although we don’t have any in our ancient woodland), and make shelter building straightforward as well as firewood collection easy, but overall, we prefer broadleaf.

After a visit to Bedgebury Pinetum a few years back, and seeing conifers left to grow as they would in the wild, we changed our minds a little about them.  Some of the trees were stunning and looked nothing like their cousins in a plantation, for example the western hemlock was nothing like the ones we were familiar with from plantations such as Clowes Wood.  If you’re into facts and figures, conifers provide the record breakers as far as trees are concerned – the tallest, widest, heaviest, oldest trees are all species of conifer.

You can find loads of photos of our ancient broadleaf woodland, and of our courses, on our Facebook page.