Right until the autumn of 2023, until the slaughter began:
There’s half an acre of wildwood behind our house in Oregon, full of blackberry brambles, mostly impassible.
—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.
The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.
—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.
—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
This tree is notorious for being highly invasive, often cross-pollinating with other pear varieties, resulting in dense, thorny thickets that disrupt local ecosystems.
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SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
29 Apr. 2026
Its large, thorny stems creep out from the base of the plant to form a thicket.
—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Apr. 2026
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