Hypothetical - ideal woodland - what would you plant?

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Don't know about ideal but the woodland at the farm is mainly ancinet hedgerow, so hawthorn, crab, hazel, with standars of oak, ash, alder and rowan, theres also a good stand of alder along the stream and in a low lying area, the rough ground to the back of it I have filled in over the years with norway spruce for christmas trees and sitka spruce for qucik growing windbreak, everything else has been left overs from planting jobs or seedlings removed when landscaping, so have got ash, sycamore, oak, birch, poplar, bird cherry, larch, western hemlock and hazel in it, still got two big patches of blackthorn to clear as its encroaching rapidly and then decide what to replant that with