Row of Hawthorn...

[roys]

Just had a look at your website Graham, nice hedge laying work, like it, don't see much of it where I am.

[Goaty]

Laying isn't an option due to cost I assume?

I'm a fencing contractor and I'm saying a laid hedge is better than a fence(in many situations) better value. It will last unlike most treated timber products.

 

Here is my chart.

1. Get rid and plant a nice hedge.

2. Lay it

3.Ground level

4. A foot below intended height

 

People plant hawthorn because it's cheap and they have no originality. They just copy. You see it in small gardens in villages and towns. It looks naff and out of place which it is.

It was planted to stock proof boundaries in the countryside in dry stone wall days of the past. When is farm livestock ever a threat now???

 

Also to bear in mind is having stumps Much lower than the intended height so they don't foul equipment cutting it and to give bushy upward growth rather than shave it ever after.

[headgroundsman]

not everyone has your skill or enough time

[Graham]

Just had a look at your website Graham, nice hedge laying work, like it, don't see much of it where I am.

 

Thank you.

[Graham]

Good website, great work.

 

Thank you.

[aspenarb]

Lay it and do the job right. This one was at the height of the ivy on the lime and up to 12" diameter.[ATTACH]210601[/ATTACH]

 

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That sir is impressive.

 

Bob

[Graham]

That sir is impressive.

 

Bob

 

Thank you.

[Stoke Wood Project]

If only all the hedges I got to lay were 15 year old hawthorn. :-( <<sigh>>

[Gary24]

Same here,would make our work easier

[Pinkfoot]

Nice work Graham.