Hedging and Hedgerow Creation

For thousands of years man has been dividing up the landscape using boundaries. The means has been many and varied, from fences and ditches, to walls and embankments, but one of the most enduring, and environmentally positive, has been the hedge.

From Saxon times and before, landowners have planted and managed hedgerows. Remarkably, many of those earliest boundary hedges still exist, but over the past fifty years the introduction of increasingly mechanised methods of agriculture has resulted in the loss of countless miles of hedgerow.

Today, the tide is turning, and farmers are now looking back to the planting of hedges and hedge maintenance, not only as a cost-effective means of marking the boundaries of their land, but also as one of the most environmentally friendly.

Nicholsons is perfectly equipped to assist with all stages of hedgerow creation and hedge maintenance, from the supply of bare-root stock, to the planting and protecting of new hedging and its subsequent maintenance. We are also able to offer hedge laying on older hedges.

If all that is too slow, how about planting one of our 'instant hedges' using our renowned container grown range of plants!