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.
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Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
My footfall sets the tempo for this wildwood symphony.
Set the scene Located within a two-hectare coconut grove on almost 400 feet of pristine white sand in southern Tulum, this is a place to take a step back from the rest of the world and catch your breath.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Mar. 2026
Calamondin are great for beginners, says Danny Trejo, founder of Via Citrus, whose citrus groves are in Florida.
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
His house sits across from what used to be a thick copse of woods.
—
Liam Rappleye,
Freep.com,
7 Mar. 2026
Captured by the photographer Lee Jaffe in 1983, Basquiat wears a wide-brimmed hat against a blue summer sky, a copse of softly out-of-focus trees visible in the background.
Masri’s drumming is lithe and spacious even at its most aggressive; just as Alcorn’s guitar slides move with a gravity-defying, naturalistic force, his attacks seem to sprout out of each other independently, emerging in thickets.
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H.D. Angel,
Pitchfork,
4 Mar. 2026
To the northwest, a tangled and primordial thicket flourished.
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