If you've been thinking about learning how to grow a hawthorn hedge, it's time to make good on those plans. 'Also known as quickthorn, common hawthorn is an English native which provides perfect ...

Choose a mixture of hedging trees and shrubs; birch, beech, oak, hazel, dogwoods and hawthorn are ideal. If you have a little patience, the best and cheapest way to create a native hedge is from ...

The hawthorn hedge before us is newly planted, and Lamb has thinned it, pleached its stems and then staked and bound it with hazel to reinforce it. Such traditional techniques, ideally carried out ...