Using shoots instead of replanting
- Linden trees have two curious properties. It has shoots in plentiful and it does not ever perish. At most, the interior of the trunk decays and is emptied.
- This allows a quasi-natural regeneration. It is enough to let grow a shoot at the center of the rotted trunk and to cut the old trunk to half height so that it is used as support for the growing shoot.
- The new shoot becomes the principal sap drawer, reducing the other shoots to a bare living. Of course, when the new tree ages, the peripheral shoots reappear.
- These properties do not exist for the hornbeams in the hedges. There, seedlings must regularly be replanted.
