{"id":7900,"date":"2017-02-20T00:13:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T00:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2017-02-14T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:53:21","slug":"hedgerows-worth-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/hedgerows-worth-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedgerows Worth Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hedgerow flowers \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4706858928\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1306\/4706858928_7fd24eb0c7.jpg\" alt=\"Hedgerow flowers\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January started the year quite well with a few early snowdrops and the remnants of primulas. February will be even better snow permitting. Leap forward to June which is a spectacular month for flowering hedgerows and particularly in the under-storey.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying plants whilst out walking as a child, was my first introduction to the environment and natural gardening. There is still a buzz seeing a plant growing in the wild that some careful gardeners has subsequently developed for the garden or nursery trade.<\/p>\n<p>Why not under-plant your garden hedges with native species of hedgerow flowers. The trick is to leave them undisturbed, unfed and untreated with chemicals. I would bank up the soil to start your hedge&#8217;s lower storey.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Hedgerows by County<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I nominate Somerset as my favourite hedgerow county but I would like to know what other UK counties can lay claim to be <strong>hedgerow county 2010<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Cornish hedgerows have a soil banking (so that helps the smaller plants) with a rocky top and shrubs.<\/li>\n<li>Devon hedges are similar to Cornwall but with turf on and at the top of the banking.<\/li>\n<li>The Yorkshire Dales tends to have dry stone walls rather than hedges but the understorey plants can still be attractive.<\/li>\n<li>In Perth, near Blairgowrie, is the tallest and longest hedge on earth. Meikleour Beech Hedge, planted in 1745, is 98 ft in height and nearly half a mile long. (I wouldn&#8217;t want to trim it).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/140880185X\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/140880185X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hedgerows, moors, meadows and woods &#8211; these hold a veritable feast for the forager.&#8217; and all is laid bear in the River Cottage Handbook. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=hedgerow&amp;tag=richardpettin-21&amp;index=blended&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\"> Book link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmt9991952.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\/\">The English Hedgerow Trust<\/a> provided this apposite quote from Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows<br \/>\nWhere oxlips and the nodding violet grows<br \/>\nQuite canopied over with luscious woodbine<br \/>\nWith sweet muskroses and with eglantine.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a bit of fun read <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/copper-beech-hedge\/\">Copper Beech Hedges<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12306\">Green Garden Habitats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January started the year quite well with a few early snowdrops and the remnants of primulas. February will be even better snow permitting. Leap forward to June which is a spectacular month for flowering hedgerows and particularly in the under-storey. Identifying plants whilst out walking as a child, was my first introduction to the environment and natural gardening. There is still a buzz seeing a plant growing in the wild that some careful gardeners has subsequently developed for the garden&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/hedgerows-worth-watching\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,42,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-books","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}