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