On Saturday we (SHG) finished off the hedge a Leigh. I was there for the first session on the 7th September but missed the second one on the 21st. The hedge was on two sides of a Parish Council allotment and ran alongside a road on both sides giving the finished product maximum exposure to the general product. Although the stems were not more than four or five inches in diameter, from an analysis of two cut samples taken from the hedge it has been estimated that it was planted in the 1920s and has been trimmed almost every year since then, producing very tight growth rings.
The hedge had been allowed to grow on for a few years but in places had not gained much height or width, especially under some of the Oaks where spindly new stems had arisen from old, brittle and partly rotten old growth, requiring some root-laying.
Despite all the issues the SHG team made a splendid job of the hedge which received much praise from the general public and the Parish Council.
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