Hedges

Hedges are important features for wildlife and landscape. Our hedge management has a variety of aims:

• rotational trimming to ensure there is a food supply for wintering birds and blossom for invertebrates
• coppicing to increase the density of hedge growth
• gapping up to increase the diversity of shrub and tree species
• creating green lanes to improve the connections between habitats
• laying hedges to contain stock and reduce the need for fences.