stick to winter sowing seeds of straight species, instead of hybrids. A few trees and shrubs that perform well when winter sown include: Oaks, maples, hazelnuts, hickories, walnuts, holly, beech ...

Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees produce all the seeds they ...

Dr Hacket-Pain added: "Normally, beech minimises the proportion of seeds lost to animals that eat their seeds through cycles of starvation and satiation, but more regular reproduction breaks these ...

Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees produce all the seeds they’ll ...