Thus spake Oz
Jim Webster writes

yes, depending on your age, it will stop needing management about the time
you stop being about to give it any. ;-))

Wind and soil being right, it is a good endpoint to aim at for your
successors

I assumed this was on the coast, as in (say) a clifftop field.

Ie well in saltmistspray range.

If planting trees try and find local as-natural-as-possible woodland on
similar soils and copy the species. A purist may well wish to collect
(with landlords permission of course) local tree seeds and grow them on
for planting.

Of course all of this is tricky. I don't know of any cliff top
woodland.
In fact a lot of Wales is very sparse of trees. However I think this is

largely due to the fact that most of it is grazed, not because there
were no trees in a prehistoric landscape. There are of course trees in
the sheltered valleys. Those that grow on more exposed ground tend to
be
very scrubby, hawthorn and black thorn, normally very stunted and
growing sideways with the prevailing wind. However, I think you could
get round the worst of the weather problem by planting smaller hardier
species as a screen at the edge. One would definitely want the advice
of
an arborist.


Regards

--
Charles Francis
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