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

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.