The Wild Gardener Colin Stafford-Johnson and dead hedges
I enjoyed The Wild gardener with Colin Stafford Johnson. It was a slow TV in a really nice way.
OH thought he would have a go at a dead hedge. It does look like it would be really good for wildlife. Coincidentally a local cafe has one, and I’m actually quite impressed with how neat it looks (must go take a pic). Where we would have it though, is at the top of a gully. I’m wondering if it will all end up in the bottom!
Has anyone got one and what do you think? I assume it needs topping up regularly?
Has anyone got one and what do you think? I assume it needs topping up regularly?
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I now know what happens inside a bee hotel, thanks to Colin who answered my question.
The idea with the dead hedge is similar to what I started last year, when I reshaped the garden: instead of buying borders for a lot of money and probably made in China, I collected branches while walking in the woods around us and used them. We have got an ugly concrete fence on one side which can't be knocked down. I'm afraid, we haven't enough dead branches around us to cover that, but I keep that as an option.
Over the summer, we had our upcycling project finally done. We managed to get 9 pieces from old palettes and I turned it into a shelve combined with old bricks. I filled it with old dead wood, but also my old Gardeners World issues and National Trust books. What ever did this, the National Trust Handbook cover was eaten the next day! The old GW issues also have lost all their covers in the meantime.
I ♥ my garden.
Small bits also get used round there as raised bed edging.
My son has a circular one in his garden but it's a feature as well as a wildlife hedge. That too looks great.
I'm on the south side of Glasgow, just to the north of the famous windfarm, which I can see from my windows