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3 yo hazel hedge

  • 16-08-2016 10:25pm
    #1
    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭


    Hazel hedge, nearing Y3 of growth, almost 3m high, expanding in every direction.
    What's the next step? Do I prune? Or 1/2 cut the branches and bend back and sideways to thicken it up?
    Any suggestions welcomed.


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  • #2
    M.T.D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭M.T.D


    What is the purpose of the hedge?
    Decorative, keeping animals in/out, firewood, habitat for wildlife..

    Here is an article on hedge laying and coppicing
    http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/oth/hedges.html


  • #3
    SILVAMAN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭SILVAMAN


    M.T.D wrote: »
    What is the purpose of the hedge?
    Decorative, keeping animals in/out, firewood, habitat for wildlife..

    Here is an article on hedge laying and coppicing
    http://www.christopherlong.co.uk/oth/hedges.html


    Many thanks-the main aim is for wildlife conservation with the expectation that nuts over time will be carried away and dropped and the hazel will eventually become common locally. Wild rose, blackthorn, euonymous, rowan and the occasional future standard tree growing too, though hazel is 80% of the hedgerow.


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