How's the woodland going Spandit?
Funny you should ask, I've only just finished "beating up" (replacing the trees that didn't make it). Out of the 1,500 or so I planted, about 60 died so I replaced those with sweet chestnut and wild pear, neither of which I'd managed to order initially, despite being on my wishlist. Got a bit trigger happy when I was ordering so also got 25 robinia pseudoacacia and 25 salix triandra (16 of which are planted in a high density plantation to hopefully provide some nice straight shoots for weaving).
All in all, I have 1,596 trees in my database, which doesn't include most of the willow rods I've stuck in the ground (about 200) or two of the three hawthorn hedges (another 150).
The tallest of the trees is about 8 foot (after one year) - the wild cherry I planted along the drive did very well, probably because they were all mulched with carpet, whereas not all of the other ones have been. The alder is doing well in most places and I have some very tall crab apple too. Some of the other species are being quite slow but the sweet chestnut and robinia were a little more advanced when they went in, so they should all be about the same age. The osier viminalis rods maxed out at about 12 feet (in 8 months!) and they've all been cut into pieces and replanted elsewhere.
| 1 - alder (alnus glutinosa) | 325 |
| 16 - hazel (corylus avellana) | 195 |
| 15 - hawthorn (crataegus monogyna) | 156 |
| 27 - wild cherry (prunus avium) | 130 |
| 20 - oak (quercus robur) | 127 |
| 5 - beech (fagus sylvatica) | 108 |
| 11 - field maple (acer campestre) | 96 |
| 18 - hornbeam (carpinus betulus) | 77 |
| 25 - sweet chestnut (castanea sativa) | 52 |
| 7 - blackthorn (prunus spinosa) | 49 |
| 4 - aspen (populus tremens) | 44 |
| 9 - crab apple (malus sylvestris) | 44 |
| 24 - spindle (euonymus europaeus) | 43 |
| 30 - black locust (robinia pseudoacacia) | 26 |
| 21 - wild pear (pyrus communis) | 26 |
| 32 - black maul (salix triandra) | 25 |
| 23 - scots pine (pinus sylvestris) | 25 |
| 6 - birch (betula pendula) | 15 |
| 31 - dogwood (cornus sanguinea) | 11 |
| 0 - unknown (n/a) | 9 |
| 3 - ash (fraxinus excelsior) | 4 |
| 2 - apple (malus domestica) | 2 |
| 28 - almond (prunus dulcis) | 1 |
| 10 - damson (prunus institia) | 1 |
| 12 - goat willow (salix caprea) | 1 |
| 17 - holly (ilex aquifolium) | 1 |
| 19 - medlar (mespilus germanica) | 1 |
| 29 - mulberry (morus nigra) | 1 |
| 26 - sycamore (acer pseudoplatanus) | 1 |
