Continuing the theme of why hedging is, as 1066 and All That would have said, a thoroughly Good Thing.

Sitting in the garden yesterday (before the rain) we played a drinking game where you paid a forfeit if you could not think of something to do with hedges and high life or low life.  Here are a few of the more sensible thoughts:

• It is tough to paint graffitti on a hedge (and even if someone succeeds, it grows away all by itself (geddit)

Tags: Hedging

I suppose this should have started nearer the beginning – Ashridge Trees is our business. We grow and sell about 2 million shrubs and trees a year. We have a huge range of hedging plants and hedge shrubs. I suppose you could say we major on hedging. But we also grow and sell ornamental and fruit trees, and we have a widening range of soft fruit. Oh, nearly forgot – and just about every hedging related planting accessory you can think of.

It crossed my mind this morning that we are in August. September is the other month of the equinox (exactly half a year away from Shakespeare’s “Beware the Ides of March”). March and September are the months where the Earth tilts just more than halfway to or from the Sun. So September and March are the months where gales are most likely and trees are most at risk of being blown over.

Tags: Trees

It crossed my mind, following my negative equity brainwave post that some comparative costing would be informative.

In absolute terms a 50 metre run of mixed country hedge plants would cost about £80 plus VAT.  It would take one unpracticed person less than a day to plant.  Other than clipping its maintenance costs are about zero and it should last for at least 100 years ( a yew hedge costs more, but can last ten times as long).