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"Keith \(Dorset\)" writes:
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| For what it's worth I grew up in woodland (down south).
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| Ash 'burns fierce when it is green' - and will readily shoot when cut from
| the base. It should grow well where you are. Rowan is of course an ash...
| but is not usually 'coppiced'. The Rowan's berries are very valuable for
| winter feeding birds, attractive, and so best left for decorative use.

Ash won't like poor, acid stony soils at all - and rowan is only called
an ash (it isn't closely related).


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.