Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Do not plant a mixed native hedge down one side of your garden if you’re concerned about your neighbours grumbling at you. Hawthorn (and blackthorn, and dog rose, for that matter) is a spiky beast, and the clippings are fierce – but then you could say the same about holly (that’s probably in there too) or berberis, and really, a spiky hedge is part of the point. Do plant a mixed native hedge for the wildlife – you could practically feel the garden sighing with relief as each bare-root plant was pushed into the ground and now, some fifteen years on, the racket of robins and sparrows, blackbirds and blue tits flitting in and out is part of the background to the garden soundscape, not to mention all the small scurrying things that must use its cover as a thoroughfare. It looks like it will be a good year for hedgerow fruit, and my thoughts are starting to turn towards hawthorn jelly.
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