Hazel coppice regrowth

The hazel stools coppiced in February have already produced regrowth of over 2 metres.  (This is Alan, not a hobbit)

The re-growth of coppiced broad-leaved trees is what Oliver Rackham, renowned historian of trees and woodland in Britain, called 'the constant spring'.  The resilience of nature is a wonder.  The weeds in your path and the flowering grass in uncut meadows are indeed examples of this constant miracle.  

We are only now, as the abundance of nature is declining, realising that we cannot take this resilience for granted.