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

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.