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Post 10
Along this path all the way to post 13 the woodland to the right has been cleared of holly and cherry laurel. Although it is a native plant holly is a problem in woods in Harrow, outcompeting all other plants in the woodland understorey. Like laurel it is evergreen and shades both light and rain from the ground below, so nothing can grow below it. An ongoing component of management of the site is the cutting of holly and the poisoning of the stumps. Sometimes the poisoning is not completely effective, as evidenced by the many places where new growth has sprouted from the cut stumps.
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