November 2000
The Old Mill Stanbridge, 60 yards hawthorn, South of England
This hedge had become difficult for the client to manage and was hiding the view beyond
Before ...
... after
Some of this hedge was pretty chunky
Me standing in front of the finished hedge
Soulbury Millennium Green, 36 yards species rich hedge of hawthorn, blackthorn, ash, field maple and elm, Midland Style
Laying the front hedge was part of the work done for the Soulbury Millennium Green project
Looking to the end with work in progress
Looking back to the start with rosehips standing out
This section is predominantly field maple ...
... and here it's mostly hawthorn
115 yards hawthorn, blackthorn, ash, sycamore, goat willow, Midland Style, Cublington Road, Wing.
Two hedgelaying weekends instructing BTCV volunteers
This is about as challenging a hedge as one can take on with volunteers and they did a really good job on it ...
... as you can see; there's a lot of big material in this hedge
Putting on the binders as the fire burns the brash in the background
The pretty much obligatory end-of-task group photo