Great description/summary of hedgerow management principles for health, density and wildlife benefit. #hedgerows
And you say it's called Blackthorn?
Prithee, which oaf gave it that name? 'Tis whiter than the winter driven snow!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
#nomenclature #Hedgerows
A minute watching Coton’s hedgerows this afternoon. Literally buzzing…
#Pollinators #Hedgerows #Wildlife #NatureUK #Biodiversity #Bees #Butterflies #CotonLovesPollinators 🐝
Small changes can make a big difference. Save Ireland's #hedgerows
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Our superhero hedge layer, Mike Reed, in the news proving once again just how vital healthy hedgerows are! 🌳A water company is using ancient #hedge laying techniques to improve biodiversity near a lake.
📲Download our app for surveying your #hedgerows: hedgerowsurvey.ptes.org/healthy-hedg...
Four volunteers who stuck it out until I remembered to take a photo, stood in front of some of the 1km of hedgerow we planted between a field and a conifer plantation.
Four people planting trees next to a tractor trailer full of trees and kit.
Cutting some ash trees for planks.
Yesterday was tidying up our coppice mess, processing wood, even making a few planks.
Today was planting hedgerows on South Molton, a site @protect.earth have planted loads of trees and hedgerows at before. Got about 1km more hedge in and there’s more to go tomorrow! #Biodiversity #Hedgerows
🎧Out now - listen to the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's Open Country podcast, Hedgerow Havens, with Martha Kearney and PTES' very own hedge geek and expert, Megan Gimber. Reporting on the benefits of #hedgerows from a very, very soggy Devon! 🌳🌧️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
#BBCRadio4 #OpenCountry
A flowering hedgerow
🌳Hedgerow Management: 'No Cut' Period 🪚🙅♂️
Under Rural Payments Agency rules, you must not cut or trim #hedgerows from 1/3-31/8.
🐝These rules protect hedgerows on farms which provide vital ecosystem services for wildlife, water and soil.
Check if your hedgerow meets the criteria: ow.ly/bU2e50YnSPc
The dangerous British countryside: www.habitataid.co.uk/blogs/blog/b... #uknature #hedgerows
Looking forward to the spring in awfully dreich February here in the Cotswolds. #spring #cotswolds #road #lane #hedgerows #verge #landscape #photography
Discover how #hedgerows can enhance your #farm and support #wildlife! 🌿 Join @friendsoflakes.bsky.social and @cumbriabdc.bsky.social on March 6th for tips on hedge management and funding options.
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2. If we had more scrub and less intensively managed #hedgerows in the countryside they may not need it at all.
Gardens are so important for much of our wildlife as they can contain sources of food that are much scarcer than they should be in the #countryside
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Hazel, Corylus avellana RSPB The Lodge Nature Reserve
Aren't Hazel flowers brilliant 💚
- The Lodge Nature Reserve.
#wildflowerhour
#Phenology
#Hedgerows
#Tree #Flowers
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Living Fences Get Stronger, Not Weaker, Over Time 😎
#Hedgerows #AgroForestry #Permaculture #WNC
Happy new Year !!
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams."
Henry David Thoreau
#watercolour #NewYear2026 #NewYearsDay #watercolor #birds #newhorizons #nature #light #hedgerows #landscape #art #painting
International Biodiversity Consultants Ltd - agroforestry
Large-scale #acoustic surveys across 448 European #hedgerows showed tall, tree-rich, well-connected hedges boost bat 🦇 activity. Low-intensity trimming (like pollarding) outperforms heavy coppicing benefiting #biodiversity across farms 🌍
Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
A few from a sketchbook. #sketches #whereilive #landscapeexploration #womanartist #orlaclancycontemporaryart #irishartist #ireland #hedgerows
Bright yellow lichen on blackthorn bushes, contrasting with many-sloe-laden branches.
Old lichen-covered blackthorn. It has been an amazing year for sloes. #hedgerows #hedges #wildfruit
US troops make their way through narrow sunken lanes - July 1944, Normandy, France. Most fields only had one gated entrance and were surrounded by high hedgerows, which made them ideal for German ambushes #ww2 #worldwar2 #bocage #hedgerows #normandie #france #normandy #usarmy #history
This week's Wildlife Matters podcast highlights hedgerows and the wild species that rely on them
Nesting Serotine and Greater Horseshoe bats can be found further up the hedge, while grassy hedge bottoms provide vital nesting material and insect larvae for chicks
#wildlife #bats #hedgerows #podcast
Early appearing Hazel Watkins. Humberhead Levels December 2025.
Early appearing Hazel Watkins. Humberhead Levels December 2025.
Confused catkins? All very well these appearing in early (onset of) winter but will their potential recipients follow suit🤔 Hazel; male catkins 11 December 2025. Another challenged provided by changing #climate patterns🤔 #HumberheadLevels #Hedgerows #Hazel #Phenology
A wickerwork willow hedge - there's a thing.
I'll return in April & see the springtime results.
#trees #hedgerows #Dorset
Hedgerows are not only beautiful but also vital allies in the fight against climate change, serving as important carbon sinks and biodiversity hotspots.
Join us on this week's Wildlife Matters podcast as we explore the remarkable stories and benefits that hedgerows offer
#wildlife #hedgerows
Join us on this week's Wildlife Matters podcast as we explore hedgerows, which are vital for England's future, boosting biodiversity, combating climate change, and enhancing soil health.
You can find us on all good podcast platforms. #wildlife #podcast #hedgerows
Not the greatest video ever but still its nice to watch them tweeting about. No sound. #birds #Irishgardening #ireland #hedgerows
Mornin’
Check out this fine Bullfinch breakfasting on blackberry seeds here at #WorldBeeSanctuary today!
A very obvious take away:
the importance of leaving #hedgerows and #nature be. Stop tidying nature.
Stop decimating hedgerows.
Wild creatures need wild spaces all year round.
Simple!
#birds
They found planting #hedgerows can reduce flood risks, and effect is bigger & faster on soils that drain well compared to those that drain poorly. This will improve future models for natural flood prevention.
Open to all.
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planting-h...
The first flurry....
Happy Wednesday x
#watercolour #birds #snow #watercolor #winter #Devon #wings #landscape #watercolourpainting #nature #hedgerows #trees #movement #art #painting #countryside
Utilising a bottle of local gin from Cotswolds Distillery combined with sloes from historic #hedgerows on our #Oxfordshire #Cotswolds farm to make sloe gin. It will hopefully be ready early in the new year, just in time when This Is Not My Land: 30 years on a small Cotswolds farm is published.