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A bit of ground of mine - just under an acre, steeply sloped - is covered in gorse. I like it. There are rowan, ash and blackthorn growing up through it (8 years since horses grazed there) protected from roe deer, I understand their root nodules fix nitrogen, birds and bees love it and the flowers look and smell great.

 

The thing is, everybody I ask for advice says get rid of it - burn, spray, mulch, whatever - and start again by planting trees. Why is this? What am I missing?

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Yeah I love the stuff; flowers virtually the whole year round and as you say the pollinators love it. But I'd suggest thinking carefully about planting other stuff: gorse thrives in poor soil where other plants don't, probably to do with it being a legume - broom is the same - and hence fixing at least some of its own nitrogen.

 

Leave it alone and keep enjoying it.

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A bit of ground of mine - just under an acre, steeply sloped - is covered in gorse. I like it. There are rowan, ash and blackthorn growing up through it (8 years since horses grazed there) protected from roe deer, I understand their root nodules fix nitrogen, birds and bees love it and the flowers look and smell great.

 

The thing is, everybody I ask for advice says get rid of it - burn, spray, mulch, whatever - and start again by planting trees. Why is this? What am I missing?

 

I love it , its great for wild life and to roll around in with your pants off:lol:

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Depends on context. I like to look at whin and I like the wildlife it hosts, but not so much to walk or quad along paths choked with it.

 

Hence I also like what the 14t Hyundai with attached FAE mulcher is presently doing to some unwelcome patches of it here.

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