What should I plant.

[face cord]

Are they banks like thoose ones but which are bare of trees that you are going to plant up?

 

Looks like thoose beech will coppice well

 

Round here thoose hedges are called cloddiau

 

http://www.dry-stone.co.uk/Pages/Books/Articles/Cloddiau/Cloddiau.html

[Woodworks]

Are they banks like thoose ones but which are bare of trees that you are going to plant up?

 

Looks like thoose beech will coppice well

 

Round here thoose hedges are called cloddiau

 

http://www.dry-stone.co.uk/Pages/Books/Articles/Cloddiau/Cloddiau.html

 

Yes and that link is the best description I have seen of stone walling and how to do it thanks

[Stereo]

Can't beat hazel for a steeped down Devon hedge I think. Lots of elm around here as well. Some of our hedges are syc /ash and they provide fuel from coppice and steep down well to give you a stock proof hedge. Only problem with ash is that Cattle love the leaves. Plus the disease of course.

[hedgesparrow]

hi thanks for close up photo your pleaches look ok and yes that the crooks to hold hedge down i would of left more brash attached to main stems to give a better cover to start and more small wood to get new growth in spring. what you also need to try and do is when you lay the first stem the second and there on lay on top of previous pleach to stop the rain getting on them so much so stop them rotting and the stool left is cut at a angle to allow water to run off so this does not rot. rust this is of help i am still learning myself and if i see a cutter on my travels always stop for a chat and watch them at work can always learn a lot just by looking at there work.

[hedgesparrow]

Thanks hedgesparrow I do use crooks but not obvious in the picture. When you say I leave a lot of branches do you mean that the pleachers overlap too much? Would I be better to only leave one stem per section? My reason for doing it they way you can see is I am trying to leave the hedge stock proof without additional fencing but strait wood is as rare as hens teeth on this hedge. Thanks for the advise I want to get better at this. Here is another picture to show some crooks at least that's what I think the local term for them is.

reading your post more no as you have done it but try and use your other pleaches to cover if poss other pleaches. when i say leave a lot of branches your brash or all the small twiggy branches this makes good cover for your pleaches and as in other posts aids next spring with a abundance of new growth to make hedge that much thicker. i will try and find some photo,s of hedges i have laid south of england.

[Riggerbear]

Are they banks like thoose ones but which are bare of trees that you are going to plant up?

 

Looks like thoose beech will coppice well

 

Round here thoose hedges are called cloddiau

 

http://www.dry-stone.co.uk/Pages/Books/Articles/Cloddiau/Cloddiau.html

 

We've got that type of walling/banks round here (aberaeron, on the west coast of Wales). Where in Cymru are you facecord ?

[Woodworks]

Thanks again for the advice.

Re planting I like the idea of planting some elm, not one I would have thought of but I have seen it grow well locally. As regard to pleaching I will try and lay over other pleachers to protect from weather and leave a bit more spry on. If I can I will take some pictures of today's efforts. The other thing is what sort of axe do use for pleaching?

[hedgesparrow]

depends what size your stools are looking at some of the wood, i would use my 41/2lb side axe. see woodsman store or google side axe wil see them on there for smaller ones a yorkshire, or a bill.