Cleft chestnut post and rail fencing

The Nicholsons Forestry team have recently completed erecting 250m of cleft chestnut post and rail fencing for a client in Warwickshire, under the instruction of garden designer James Alexander-Sinclair.  The fence is to separate the wider garden of the property from adjoining grazing land, whilst maintaining views from the house to a newly constructed lake and across the Warwickshire countryside beyond.

The posts and rails were sourced from near Midhurst in West Sussex - the chestnut was felled during the winter and processed into the morticed posts and rails 'in the wood'.  The team worked hard and completed the work in just over a week, including attaching rabbit netting along the entire length.

We hope to back on site in the autumn to plant some more specimen trees between the house and the fence to create a 'parkland setting' for the house.

Moving big trees

The Nicholsons Forestry team have recently completed a project to plant a number of very large specimen trees in the garden of an Oxfordshire property under the instruction of garden designer James Alexander-Sinclair.  The trees were delivered with root systems of up to 600 litres and could only be moved using some fairly large machinery.

In addition we had to plant an olive tree that weighed in at 1750kg in the centre of the sunken patio next to the swimming pool.  The tree had to be lifted over the wall into the pool area using a crane, and the crane was operating at its maximum safe lifting limit in order to swing the tree round without going over the top of the swimming pool (and its expensive solar cover).

We completed the work without any hitches (phew!).