Hello,
I have a small meadow (2 acres / 0.8 ha) approximately triangular, that was cut off from a larger field by a bypass in the mid 80s between Cheshire and North-Wales.
Although not wooded (yet...) and a habitat type of conservation value, I'm considering planting up to 1 acre / 0.4 ha as a future coppice area from the narrowest side and still leave a significant open meadow area. (This is soon to have a few specimen young black poplars of local provenance planted).
There are a quite a few ash trees (both mature long established and young trees), in the hawthorn hedgerows - together with maple, oak, willow, dog-rose and alder.
The land occasionally floods from the River Dee in winter, but the existing trees seem happy enough as the ground drains away without being waterlogged the rest of the year (and the black poplars will no doubt be happy too in the meadow area).
My other interests include landscape history, historic and local variety fruit trees - as well as involvement with larger woodland and landscape conservation projects of others.
Regards,
Daniel