Been away on holiday and came back to cut the grass and noticed one of my silver birch trees has snapped close to the base, I haven't done very much gardening and wondering if there's any way I can just chop it off and stick it back in the ground or something like that?
by Just_The_Gorm
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I dont think so. Even if you could mend it it would be very weak at the base.
Maybe try giving it a clean cut around the base (coppice) and it may sprout new shoots. That would grow faster with the established root system or even gradfting a shoot on the bottom might work but that tree is gone.
you could try propping it back up and trying to lash it back together but it would likely always be weak. I would imagine if you left it alone it would continue growing in some way, given that it is still connected, but it would be unsightly. However I would say that there is a good chance that it will regrow next year. give it a clean cut, at an angle so rainwater runs off and fingers crossed it’ll come back
Leave it until leaf fall so it can reabsorb nutrients back to the roots then cut at base this winter.. Will grow back next spring and be back to its present state in 3 to 4 years.. Multiple shoots will sprout, but select the tallest and straightest this time next year.. r/coppicing