Oxfordshire Woodland Group

Hazel rods and poles should be cut back close to the stool and ideally with the cut faces sloping outwards to shed water. This stool should generate about £60 and is cut on a 4 year cycle. It is surrounded by primroses which if not trampled should provide some spring delight !

Already the primroses around the base of the hazel stool are responding to the increased light levels and are putting on leaf with a good number of small seedlings also evident.

3 months later and the primroses and celandine are flowering in the spring sunshine around the cut hazel stool. The first day of spring !

3 years later the hazel has regrown and the primroses have spread to cover a wider area.

This area has been mowed once a year (Aug) with a rotary mower which helps scatter and spread the primrose seed.