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American Couple Reacts: UK's Art of Hedgelaying & Dry Stone Walls! FIRST TIME REACTION! FASCINATING!

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The Natasha & Debbie Show

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Жыл бұрын

American Couple Reacts: UK's Art of Hedgelaying & Dry Stone Walls! FIRST TIME REACTION! FASCINATING! We have been admiring the beautiful Dry Stone Walls and Hedges in the United Kingdom since we started our Show! We wanted to learn more about them both. We have 2 videos here that give us information that shows how much really goes into them. It is certainly more than we thought! They are VERY impressive skills that equal beautiful, timeless Art. We loved this episode and learned lots. We hope you will too! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! More Links below...
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@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
We have been admiring the beautiful Dry Stone Walls and Hedges in the United Kingdom since we started our Show! We wanted to learn more about them both. We have 2 videos here that give us information that shows how much really goes into them. It is certainly more than we thought! They are VERY impressive skills that equal beautiful, timeless Art. We loved this episode and learned lots. We hope you will too! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
@neilgayleard3842
@neilgayleard3842 Жыл бұрын
There's a old British tv programme called out of town with a man called Jack Hargreaves. It was all about these sorts of things and British rural life. He was also in another programme called how, which might be of interest to you.
@anthonyrobinson5694
@anthonyrobinson5694 Жыл бұрын
You will be Happy to know that Dry Stone Walling is now attracting more and more Female Wallers. It is very relaxing watching or building Dry Stone Walls. These are mainly in the Yorkshire/Derbyshire but can be found nearly anywhere
@Rachel_M_
@Rachel_M_ Жыл бұрын
You was right on the button with the little holes. Rabbit runs
@dave_h_8742
@dave_h_8742 Жыл бұрын
Optimum time is 7 years to cut a hedge back unfortunately they do it nearly every year with a flail smashing it back to stubs.
@tonys1636
@tonys1636 Жыл бұрын
@@dave_h_8742 Flail cutting a hedge is an abomination and the hedge becomes leggy over time and will not stop man or beast from going through it. Also a pain, if driving a truck or a large car, being stuck behind or having to reverse to let the tractor past on a single track/narrow road whilst its cut and the risk of a puncture when a Hawthorn hedge from all the bits over the road.
@StephMcAlea
@StephMcAlea Жыл бұрын
Debbie got the holes in the wall spot on. They're Sallyports, built to let field mouse, hedgehogs, etc through. The vertical stones on the top, the Blades, discourage animals trying to cross.
@aidenbailey4139
@aidenbailey4139 Жыл бұрын
Hawaii is a American and English. Country❤😂🎉😮😅😊
@theotherside8258
@theotherside8258 Жыл бұрын
They are also useful for drainage, you can see where water pools if they are not present and when frozen it would dislodge the foundation stones. Hadrian's wall has similar.
@johnkemp8904
@johnkemp8904 Жыл бұрын
I remember reading in the memoirs of the late Sir Donald Sinden, one of our favourite British actors, that when he was a young man working at the Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford upon Avon, he had a Sunday afternoon off and a friend and he went for a stroll round the country lanes and came upon couple of men working on a hedge. He casually asked them what they were actually doing. “Well, sir, I rough-hews them, and he shapes their ends”. The thespian in young Sinden made the immediate connection with Hamlet: “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends/Rough-hew them as we will”. He realised that all those centuries before young Will Shakespeare would most likely have had a similar conversation.
@lj2257
@lj2257 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting,thank you John.
@stevetheduck1425
@stevetheduck1425 Жыл бұрын
I'd like to think that stoneworker was a quick-minded theatre fan and connected those dots himself. ;-)
@davidtomlinson7946
@davidtomlinson7946 Жыл бұрын
I had the privilege to share an interest with the late Sir Donald and attended meetings where I got to chat with him. So knowledgeable and interested in others. My workplace used him for some radio advertising, he was a consummate professional. Word perfect, we laid down a few takes of his beautiful melodic voice. Sadly missed.
@julianbarber4708
@julianbarber4708 Жыл бұрын
That's great!
@Johnny-py6hh
@Johnny-py6hh Жыл бұрын
My father in law is in his mid eighties now, and he spent all his working life dry stone walling and coppicing hedges around Devon, I live in Cumbria and the countryside around my home is surrounded with both, but I never tire of the craftsmanship and beauty displayed in these traditional skills 🙌🏻
@iangudgin6536
@iangudgin6536 Жыл бұрын
My American sister in law was visiting the UK last year when she watched hedge laying on tv. She was fascinated and has learned to do it from online tutorials. She has just finished laying the hedge in her backyard in NJ. I've seen pictures and she has done an amazing job!!! Both hedge laying and dry stone walling are brilliant for wildlife and the environment. Incidentally, the gap at the bottom of the stone walls is to allow hedgehogs to pass.
@sarahealey1780
@sarahealey1780 Жыл бұрын
Watching Debbie's brain ticking with the walling, I could literally see her planning out the wall. There are loads of falling down cottages around the UK. I could see Debbie rebuilding one of these lost gems and living in a quaint British country cottage with a dog rescue centre in the fields at the back xx
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Stop reading our MINDS!! 😂 You aren't far off...🤫
@Westcountrynordic
@Westcountrynordic Жыл бұрын
You've forgot the Ice Cream boat
@sarahealey1780
@sarahealey1780 Жыл бұрын
@@Westcountrynordic there is no way Natasha is going to live on an ice cream boat 🤣 that's wishful thinking on Debbie's part xx
@evar7816
@evar7816 Жыл бұрын
I live in rural Devon with lots of thatched cottages. Maybe check out the thatching trade and how they renew the roofs. Another skill that needs to be maintained.
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Excellent idea!!!
@tomrainboro3728
@tomrainboro3728 Жыл бұрын
also cob houses, which were/are thatched. (I'm from theTaw Valley).
@anthonyrobinson5694
@anthonyrobinson5694 Жыл бұрын
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow That Riverside House you looked at in Norfolk ares in one of the many areas of the UK that have Thatched Roofs
@iangoldsworthy2056
@iangoldsworthy2056 Жыл бұрын
This... This is on another level, I have seen this in action but not seen the full completion as I stayed over at my Aunty and Uncles house over a holiday break. Where I tended to hop crops and maintaining and cutting landscapes. I think it takes roughly 12 to 16 weeks if it was a lone Thatcher and a shorter time if there was a crew.
@evar7816
@evar7816 Жыл бұрын
@@iangoldsworthy2056 Indeed it does take quite a few weeks . It’s fascinating watching them especially when they “trim” the edges to get uniformity and also how they make patterns towards the top. Another feature we have here is roof ornaments usually metal of animals or birds. A bit like a weather vane but without the arrow😂
@michaeldyas769
@michaeldyas769 Жыл бұрын
The joy in that farmer is just so heartwarming 😍😍😍
@markgibson3034
@markgibson3034 Жыл бұрын
The hole at the bottom of the wall is for smaller animals. Spot on Debbi.😂 The top stones on their edges not only looks good but also helps protect from weather. One main rule in dry stone walling is ‘if you pick up a stone, you find a place to lay it.’ Otherwise you can get stuck looking for ‘the perfect stone’.
@tomvalentine4928
@tomvalentine4928 Жыл бұрын
That's one old adage you can safely ignore......
@markgibson3034
@markgibson3034 Жыл бұрын
@@tomvalentine4928 what is?
@tomvalentine4928
@tomvalentine4928 Жыл бұрын
@@markgibson3034 The one about never putting a stone down after you've picked it up. It sounds good but it's just not practical and is certainly never taught at any of the 4 levels of craftsmanship certificated by the Dry Stone Walling Association.
@markgibson3034
@markgibson3034 Жыл бұрын
@@tomvalentine4928 ok. Well thanks for the more reasoned response. I didn’t do a level like you obviously did. And it was a long time ago. Maybe that was just something the people I worked for would say. I was definitely told the stone needs to be used. And There’s a place for it. Thanks for informing me otherwise though.
@tomvalentine4928
@tomvalentine4928 Жыл бұрын
@@markgibson3034 No problems, Mark. Sorry if my initial comment was rude or aggressive.When I learned walling I used to hear it all the time, sometimes from wallers and sometimes from armchair experts. i never accepted it and when I took up walling full time it just confirmed what i always thought. Of course there is always a place for it, even if it's only as packing in the middle. Incidentally i would often get purists telling me off for putting concrete and broken brick in the hearting but if it has the same frictional qualities as natural stone it will do just as good a job. And I'd rather see old rubble doing a useful job than going straight to a landfill site :)
@xhogun8578
@xhogun8578 Жыл бұрын
The stones on the top are the coping stones they have two uses one for stability and the second to deter climbing making the field more secure especially for sheep. Rural hedgerows are normally made up of hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, ash and oak.
@sarahealey1780
@sarahealey1780 Жыл бұрын
I don't think I have ever seen Debbie look so happy in a video 😂
@mandypotts9090
@mandypotts9090 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know have you seen her expressions when she’s eating the penguin, the chocolate bar that is 😮😋
@thomasmumw8435
@thomasmumw8435 Жыл бұрын
Here in Cornwall we have "Cornish Hedges" which are unique to our County, some have had the earth under them tested by English Heritage and it was dated to 5000 years ago. Very different to dry walls as our have a wide base with earth in the centre, and larger stones at the base then concaved upwards to smaller stones..... It's an art to see a stone and knowing exactly where it needs to fit.
@lat1419
@lat1419 Жыл бұрын
We have Pembrokeshire hedges the same. Where I live we can still see Iron Age field boundaries. My own fields are bounded by walls that are at least 2000 years old. The narrow strip fields run down from the top to bottom of the valley so each field had a part of the top land and access to the water at the bottom.
@pulchralutetia
@pulchralutetia Жыл бұрын
Your Cornish hedges are very tall (10feet or more), very similar to the 'bocage' landscape of Normandy. The hedges in other parts of the UK, except Devon, are generally much lower.
@tomarmstrong5244
@tomarmstrong5244 Жыл бұрын
It was a hedgehog hole in the wall. Some of the hedges in UK are hundreds of years old. Hornbeam and beech are are the most common for hedging, but over the years other species join in. Often the choice between hedging and a dry stone wall is the availiabilty of material and location. Walling is more common in the high country in the north, where there are fewer trees and the weather makes it difficult to grow hedge.
@TheFranceskaTree
@TheFranceskaTree Жыл бұрын
Perhaps you’ve heard of the documentary series about these sorts of old practices called, “Edwardian Farm”, and “Victorian Farm” and “Tales from the Green Valley” with archaeologists Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman? They came out quite a while ago now, but they’re really fascinating and give such an intriguing history into the UK and the histories of the land. I think there are some clips on KZfaq somewhere from these series. Might be of interest.
@SueFleming-it8kj
@SueFleming-it8kj 4 ай бұрын
Loved those programmes, learnt so much ❤
@marynorth7988
@marynorth7988 Жыл бұрын
My Dad did most of the hedge laying around the village of my youth 7 decades ago. He used hawthorn for the basic hedge as it was pliable. My 'job' was to bag the larger wood chips that were taken home to dry then used to start the fire !! Happy days !
@tonys1636
@tonys1636 Жыл бұрын
Hawthorn, natures barbed wire. Had a Hawthorn hedge along a side of my garden, kept the farmer's Sheep in his field and my dog in my garden. He was a willey farmer as when he sold off the house and the acre it sat in, made sure the hedge was no longer part of his land so not responsible for the maintenance of it and the kissing gate as a public footpath through the garden and field.
@mothmagic1
@mothmagic1 Жыл бұрын
You're so right. That is exactly the memory this video brought out in me. My dad used to work a five and a half day week on the farm and would put in a few Saturday afternoons cutting and laying the hedges. The brush wood that wasn't going to be any use he burned on site. When his schoolboy son went along i was in charge of the bonfire. Anything that was too big to be used was loaded on the trailer and dropped off at home. Free fire wood.
@marjielalonde3875
@marjielalonde3875 Жыл бұрын
So enjoyable; I was born in England and moved to Canada when I was fourteen, so a huge part of my heart is still in Britain.We used to go for Sunday drives and would often see the dry stone walls and hedgerows but as I was a kid I didn`t fully appreciate what went into them.
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Isn't interesting what we learn to appreciate as adults!
@marjielalonde3875
@marjielalonde3875 Жыл бұрын
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow It really is!
@pulchralutetia
@pulchralutetia Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but you've got gallons of delicious maple syrup instead.
@Venus77x
@Venus77x Жыл бұрын
My brother volunteered to help with dry stone walling, about 40 years ago, when he was a teenager and out of work. He absolutely loved it. Where we live there are thousands of dry stone walls, in the natural stone of our area, that have stood for centuries, without mortar or any fixings. It really is an artwork but very therapeutic to do, it's good honest graft. We're very into nature from my generation, I try to pass that to my Grandchildren, so as never to lose connection with our true essence. I really hope the children of today reconnect through ancient skills such as this, because it makes us appreciate our environment and teaches us to care for it. I love watching your videos, I love that you also enjoy aspects of the UK, because we have so much to be grateful for Xx
@archiebald4717
@archiebald4717 Жыл бұрын
You girls are really lovely. When I was 14/16 years old, I used to help with both these jobs in the Cotswolds area.
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
That's so cool!!!
@1Sleepy_Ghost
@1Sleepy_Ghost Жыл бұрын
While staying with our american relatives in Hartsville, Tennessee they kindly took us for a ride around the 'lanes' at the back of their property to show us the old dry stone walls that were built by the Brits prior to the civil war. Interesting to see they too, were still standing albeit in poor condition.
@pulchralutetia
@pulchralutetia Жыл бұрын
You can see abandoned dry stone walls in the woods of New England too.
@ducatobeing
@ducatobeing Жыл бұрын
Hedge or dry stone wall largely depends on the availability of materials. The dry stone walls have different appearances in different regions of the country, presumably because of changes in geology making different stone available. In Nottinghamshire there are very few, in neighbouring Derbyshire there are lots. You can go on holidays to learn the craft. The lady who is talking about the hedge laying is in the south-west, she said Devon was a neighbouring county, it looks fairly flat so it might be Somerset. Here in Nottinghamshire there are miles of hedges. An ancient name for a hedge was a "hay". There is a part of Sherwood Forest near my home called "Bilhaugh", this is pronounced "Billhay" (I don't make the rules) and was a deer hunting area surrounded by a very large hedge, and belonged to the King. In the East Midlands most hedges are Hawthorne, judging by the red berries, so is that. How long can a hedge last? I remember watching a documentary (a long time ago) and a landscape archaeologist examined a hedge and said that it may have been as much as fifteen hundred years old. probably not the original bushes, but with maintenance it had lasted.
@StormhavenGaming
@StormhavenGaming Жыл бұрын
I was confused by the location. A cursory search on Google suggests that the farm is in Buckinghamshire but it certainly sounded like she was implying that Devon was a neighbouring county. I'm not familiar enough with rural Bucks accents to distinguish them from West Country but her accent is softer than I would expect from a Somerset lady.
@garulusglandarius6126
@garulusglandarius6126 Жыл бұрын
Dry wall building is a true art like hedge laying and thatching, very impressive skills with a beautiful result. Great interesting video ladies 👍🇺🇸🇬🇧
@michelletrudgill4573
@michelletrudgill4573 Жыл бұрын
Morning girlies, wow how wonderful these dying arts are coming back as people are realising how important it is. What a great video. As you say it's something we as townies take for granted not really knowing all the hard work that goes into building them. Really enjoyed the video again as always. Xx
@kathchandler4919
@kathchandler4919 Жыл бұрын
the small holes, are, indeed for small animals. Come up to Northumberland and you'll see strange wires crossing main roads with odd looking ceramic spheres spaced across , they are squirrel bridges , specially for red squirrels , the ceramic spheres being resting places as the animals use them . Don't ask me how these wild tufties understand they're a safe 'highway' for them but they do ! We're very serious about saving our natural wildlife & all householders are encouraged to leave gaps in fences & walls too ❤
@susieq9801
@susieq9801 Жыл бұрын
An elderly Scottish stone mason had a farm across from my home when I was a kid. He built a lot of chimneys for homes in my neighborhood a hundred years ago. He could look at a stone and knew precisely where it would fit. When I walk around the area I can tell instantly which chimneys Earl built. They were masterpieces.
@fayesouthall6604
@fayesouthall6604 Жыл бұрын
Real skill in this job. So beautiful too. Helps wildlife and easy to repair.
@janetburrows137
@janetburrows137 9 ай бұрын
A proper layered hedge is beautiful. On my way too work, they’d just started laying the hedges. They hadn’t been done for a few years. But like the lady said. When it’s spring and it starts sprouting again, it a thing of beauty. ❤❤❤❤🇬🇧🇬🇧👏🇱🇷🇬🇧👏🇱🇷
@ledzep331
@ledzep331 Жыл бұрын
This video brought back memories for me. I was a member of the Dry Stone Walling association and spent a few years building/repairing dry stone walls in my 20's. To this day I still say it was the best job I ever had. As my name would suggests I also loved your shirt.
@retrowatches1655
@retrowatches1655 Жыл бұрын
Is your name T shirt?
@anthonydarby3973
@anthonydarby3973 Жыл бұрын
Hello to you both, you were very right in what you said when you referred to both activities as,"art, this is something that has been passed down throughout the ages from one generation to the next, and when you said how happy and proud they both looked when talking about their craft you were spot on, it's called absolute passion. ❤
@marpop99
@marpop99 Жыл бұрын
Love your enthusiasm. I can see Debbie trying some of this.
@kellysnowdon7736
@kellysnowdon7736 Жыл бұрын
Thank you ladies for a lovely video. County Durham has loads of drywall and hedges as part of its layout and we also have a lot of history. And if you ever get to watch a Catherine Cookson period drama most of them were filmed in Beamish
@kellyfairbairn9333
@kellyfairbairn9333 Жыл бұрын
Yeah dry stone walls everywhere where I am too. It's a very specialist skill. I really think you would enjoy the "on the farm" series. It's a seasonal show so there's spring time on the farm, summer on the farm etc
@davidwatts-hw2dh
@davidwatts-hw2dh Жыл бұрын
I have said many times, the UK hedgerows are a wonder of the world. Put end to end, they would stretch to Mars. I hunt them with my English Springers.
@johnrussell4788
@johnrussell4788 Жыл бұрын
Thanks dear ladies ♥
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Thank YOU for watching!
@nadeansimmons226
@nadeansimmons226 Жыл бұрын
Two of the things I love about my home county of Yorkshire. Could be why I love the stone clad buildings of where I now live close to Central Otago in NZ
@MrAdamson2008
@MrAdamson2008 Жыл бұрын
You should check out Fred Dibnah Laddering a chimney.
@eileenedgar4776
@eileenedgar4776 Жыл бұрын
They definitely should!! A real character and craftsman
@sueflynn9886
@sueflynn9886 Жыл бұрын
King Charles III is an experienced hedge layer - just thought you might be interested to know! What fabulous ladies, fantastic they have these traditional skills! ❤️🇬🇧
@RichWoods23
@RichWoods23 Жыл бұрын
Are you suggesting that Charlie-boy is of some use after all? ;-)
@johnbenson2919
@johnbenson2919 Жыл бұрын
Dry stone walling is wonderful to do, I agree with everything she said about the pleasure of working with stones. Like with the hedge laying there are different walls depending on the area, so the ones I occasionally work on in The Cotswolds are built to a different spec to those in say Yorkshire. I haven't personally seen those tunnels before, but they are most likely for wildlife rather than drainage, speaking of which on one property we had a family of stoats living in a wall. Many miles of stone wall and traditional hedges were lost due to changes in the ways farming was carried out, the use of mechanised hedge trimmers etc. so there are now grants available to re-instate and restore traditional walls and hedges because of the huge benefits for wildlife habitats as well as maintaining the regional character of the countryside.
@kathryncoleman6973
@kathryncoleman6973 Жыл бұрын
❤ the video,and when I am travelling around,I always see the the walls,etc.. very impressed.
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@no-oneinparticular7264
@no-oneinparticular7264 Жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved this. I live in a very built up area, due to medical reasons, and I miss my countryside home. This was so nostalgic for me, and I thankyou for the nostalgia 🇬🇧 ❤ ❤❤❤❤
@matthewwigley1613
@matthewwigley1613 Жыл бұрын
Hi girls, I made my living drystone walling for many years with the occasional hedge pleaching job as and when required. I can take you to lengths of wall I have built from scratch and walls I have renovated, some dating back to the romans, and I can truthfully say that I am proud of all the work I did knowing that it will likely stand for hundreds of years to come if all goes well. However I can also say that it isn't a romantic job, it has it's moments, but on the whole it's hard, unrelenting work usually carried out in the winter and poorly paid. I did between 4 to 5 sq yards of wall a day which included taking down and ending with the copings, the stone we used came in at 2yds of wall per ton so your shifting over 4 tons a day when taking down and rebuilding. I have had days when we had to use sledge hammers to knock the stone off the frozen ground in order to use it and my hands were so cold my arm pits ached, I won't overstate the rain or the sleet or the snow, but your in the middle of it all usually with no shelter. Of course we had good days, I remember most of them with great fondness, those moments that make the grind a little more palatable and of course there's the pride of a job well done, but commercial walling is anything but romantic. In answer to one of your queries: in parts of the West Country and Wales the walls are built wider and bonded with earth, the centres are left open and back filled with earth into which a mixed hedge is planted, this is then pleached or layed when at the right size to give an impregnable barrier. The overall result is a very tall hedgerow/ wall combo getting on for ten feet high. I believe this kind of approach is taken in Normandy in France, it caused the allies a great deal of trouble after the D-day landings since it slowed down the tanks and armoured vehicles to such an extent. Testament to the durability of this kind of construction. As a footnote, my home county is Derbyshire where the walls are made of either limestone or gritstone and are so numerous and all pervading that they are known as Derbyshire hedges!!! So if your walling in Derbyshire your also hedging at the same time, LOL . Take it easy girls, keep the posts coming, I like them all, all the best, Matt X.
@Steve-ys1ig
@Steve-ys1ig Жыл бұрын
Hedgerows are common throughout England especially the South and Midlands. The further north you go stone walls become more common. In my county Northamptonshire it is uncommon to see stone walls - virtually all Farms and country roads have hedges
@theotherside8258
@theotherside8258 Жыл бұрын
Just like the walls, the hedge laying is done in different ways in different parts of the country
@terryodell9803
@terryodell9803 Жыл бұрын
Love your t-shirt Natasha my favourite band. I was fortunate to see them twice 4th and 11th August 1979 at Knebworth which is only about 14 miles from my home in Luton Bedfordshire 😊 🎶
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
My first concert was the Page & Plant No Quarter tour! Pretty epic first concert!! -Natasha
@terryodell9803
@terryodell9803 Жыл бұрын
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow what a great first concert :)
@orraman5427
@orraman5427 Жыл бұрын
The coping (top) stones tie the two skins together and are put on edge to get the maximum amount of weight per unit of length of wall. In the north of Scotland some dry stane dykes (dry stone walls) have holes built into them half way up in order to let some wind through and help reduce snow drifts.
@petrinadendy6395
@petrinadendy6395 Жыл бұрын
Layed hedges are only found in the British Isles and some parts of Northern France. But in my opinion the best one to make is called a brewer's hedge. Made up of native plants you can brew or eat with wild hops growing in and up.😀
@papercup2517
@papercup2517 Жыл бұрын
I think if you have a lot of stone lying around on your property you gather it up and make stone walls. Otherwise you lay hedges. In Cornwall they have some sort of traditional combination wall/hedge, IIRC. The type of plant used here seemed to be hawthorn, because they showed those darkish red hawthorn berries (haws) near the beginning of the hedge video. Also saw a rose cane there so they may have wild dogroses in the mix. Roses' red/orange fruits are called hips/rosehips so in the autumn you can go out and cut hips and haws for decorations. Many years ago I made my poor parents go out clambering about in the Norfolk fields and hedgerows so I could have hips and haws in my bouquet for an October wedding over there, to fit the autumnal theme.
@MarzbarsWorld
@MarzbarsWorld Жыл бұрын
What a great video. Some very talented people there. So beautiful and inspiring 😊
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more!
@tombaxter6228
@tombaxter6228 Жыл бұрын
Farms would 'pay' hedgers (In the South anyway) in part, with scrumpy cider. The better the cider, the more hedgers would be attracted to work at a particular farm. Astute farmers spent time and effort on their liquid payment as incentive for their hired hands. This explains the sheer quantity of cider producers that can be found in England, the West Country and Wales..
@martinbellamy940
@martinbellamy940 Жыл бұрын
Great videos as always but I especially like Natasha’s T shirt as they are my favourite band, seeing them a few times in the 70’s. I still have my original albums and concert items.
@andypandy9013
@andypandy9013 Жыл бұрын
We have a much loved "Popular Poet" here in the UK called Pam Ayres. One of my favourite poems of hers (and one of the shortest) is this one: I am a Dry Stone Waller All day I dry stone wall Of all appalling callings, Dry Stone Walling's worst of all. 😀😃😄😁
@raycornford283
@raycornford283 4 ай бұрын
I remember helping an old farm hand at "hedging and ditching" when I was a lad. Because of the time of year for this work (January in my case) it was cold and often wet work, but even then, I recall how impressed I was with the finished job.
@janemcnaughten7275
@janemcnaughten7275 Жыл бұрын
Kia Ora ladies. The stone and hedges are beautiful. Especially in Cornwall & Devon. Jane in New Zealand 🇬🇧🇳🇿
@theindividualizt
@theindividualizt Жыл бұрын
You 2 are a great couple! You a warm and genuine and have beautiful hearts. Thank you for this!
@Yol1972
@Yol1972 Жыл бұрын
Loved this, you now need to watch some traditional thatchers at work lay roofs :)
@guywilloughby3383
@guywilloughby3383 Жыл бұрын
I guess the most important feature of a dry stone wall is that there are multiple gaps in it, which allows the wind to travel through the wall and stops it being blown over.
@sassyjintheuk
@sassyjintheuk Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this guys. I'm building my own in Scotland. In North Yorkshire, where my late Ma's from, the beautiful walls are everyday.
@alanflint7732
@alanflint7732 Жыл бұрын
The hedges are usually Blackthorn, Hawthorn and Holly. It's an old skill. Cutting halfway through, so it is easy to bend, but still has enough bark for growth to continue. Then weaving it through stakes and twisting shafts along the top. It makes for a very strong hedge that livestock can't get through, yet still gives tremendous habitat for all manner of wildlife. Hedges are mainly a lowland thing. Where there is thicker soil. Dry stone walls(mortar not used) tend to be more rocky upland areas. Although there is a fair bit down in Devon as I recall. The dry stone walls may have been a result of ancient farmers attempting to plough. And throwing any rocks turned over to the sides of the fields. Then using them in due course to make permanent boundaries. And they are pretty permanent. Tie stones (stones that go across the whole width of the wall) are used at intervals to tie the two outer faces of the wall together. It's clever stuff. Love the videos. I don't know if you know of Jeremy Clarkson. One of the 3 chaps from Top Gear and Grand Tour. He has done 2 series Called Clarksons Farm on Amazon. Where he is learning how to be a farmer. In one of the episodes of the second series he has a hedge laying competition. They do actually show much more of the work going on and the different county styles. Worth checking out. Clarkson is a very opinionated chap. But his passion for farming has taken him over. And he does show how difficult it is for farms to survive in today's over restricted age where supermarkets dictate what is grown and how. And yet he still finds time to cock about and make a complete arse of himself. Cheers gals. X
@susanmaxwell6033
@susanmaxwell6033 Жыл бұрын
Greetings from Milton Keynes. My friend recently planted a new hedge using a "Gin" mix. All the plants are used as botanicals in gin! Yet it's a traditional hedge mix. There are other blends that they could have used. You buy by the yard (metre) with so many plants to be planted in that space.
@mandypotts9090
@mandypotts9090 Жыл бұрын
Another reaction to something that you appreciate and admire that we may take for granted because we have grown up with and see all the time . I have seen and enjoyed programs about the skills Of the countryside but not these ones so l learned along with you . Iam going back to watch this again thanks for sharing you’ve definitively made me appreciate the beauty and skill that’s around me
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
That's great!!!! ❤️
@sashacottier9581
@sashacottier9581 Жыл бұрын
Thanks guys loved it ❤ wishing u well today. 🙏🙏🙏💪
@nickname6747
@nickname6747 Жыл бұрын
Is that lady talking about hedgelaying the same woman who was on Return To River Cottage on Channel 4 in the UK in the late 90s? That was in Dorset in the South-West of England. Thanks for uploading, ladies.
@JohnJohnson-tw8qk
@JohnJohnson-tw8qk Жыл бұрын
❤ Love Debbie and Natasha ❤️
@OnASeasideMission
@OnASeasideMission Жыл бұрын
I'm always amazed when you can find a simple subject with so much depth. Someone commented on the regional association with dry stone walls. The explanation is geology. The stones used are those outcropping where needed, often occurring in thin beds of sandstones, silts, limestones or whatever. The Cotswolds are full of Cotswold stone villages, older buildings in SE England are faced with cherts, eroded out of the Chalk. As you view different regions, note different building styles and materials. Many thanks, as always.
@OnASeasideMission
@OnASeasideMission Жыл бұрын
Reply to self. The Cretaceous is South East England, not South West. Geology graduate? 🙄
@GaryNoone-jz3mq
@GaryNoone-jz3mq 7 ай бұрын
Hedge laying is just cool😮
@user-zu6ir6kj5g
@user-zu6ir6kj5g Жыл бұрын
Very funny! - Debbie could do dry stone walling because, "She's such a rock star".....
@kenslater7354
@kenslater7354 Жыл бұрын
Love the Led Zeppelin shirt Tash!
@ianwilkinson8664
@ianwilkinson8664 Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this one ladies. It's so good to see that the old traditions are still alive and well and the torch is being picked up by a new generation. Here in the UK we have a 4 day weekend for Easter so I've been working on my own decking project. The sense of achievement building something from scratch with your own hands is enormous.
@stevewhite9308
@stevewhite9308 Жыл бұрын
What a lovely gentle, and interesting reaction. I’ve known a few drystone wallers over the years. They were all very quiet thoughtfully men, never met any lady wallers unfortunately . Nice bit of info about the New England drystone walls, I had no idea, every days a school day.
@caru547
@caru547 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating! You see dry stone walls out in the sticks across the UK but I’d never heard of hedge laying! A wonderful, educational video Ladies. I would never have heard about this without your input! Thank you! 🥰
@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja
@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja Жыл бұрын
This was brilliant, I have always been in love with the dry-stone walls, I could almost imagine myself doing that job, being outdoors with fresh air and some cute dogs to play with.... great life to me! I think I would have to move to the UK. I don't believe we have too many stone walls here in New Zealand because they would shake to pieces in an Earthquake. The Hedge Laying was fascinating, what an incredible art form! Thanks so much for this video!
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!! ❤❤
@Rachel_M_
@Rachel_M_ Жыл бұрын
Perhaps you could introduce the craft to NZ? Guaranteed repeat business for you 👍
@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja
@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja Жыл бұрын
@@Rachel_M_ 😂 absolutely. I might make a small fortune!
@Rachel_M_
@Rachel_M_ Жыл бұрын
@@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja you never know 👍. I live in Wales and view NZ as "The wales of the South". Both havr More sheep than people (so i'm told) and often overlooked because of their bigger neighbours
@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja
@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja Жыл бұрын
@@Rachel_M_ wow, I have never been to Wales but videos and pictures I have seen are stunning. More sheep than people, yes I believe in New Zealand this is still the case.
@evar7816
@evar7816 Жыл бұрын
We have a brilliant programme on uk tv called the repair shop where lots of artisan crafts people bring old broken things back to life . Artisan crafts are still in full swing in rural areas .
@gailstubbings8606
@gailstubbings8606 Жыл бұрын
We have hedges here where I am in Kent uk and i think it’s hawthorn bushes. Love the stone walls we have here too seen some on my adventures up north and love how they do it. Thank you ladies for sharing xxx
@neilgayleard3842
@neilgayleard3842 Жыл бұрын
We have Kent rag stone in Kent. In the north they use slate.
@pulchralutetia
@pulchralutetia Жыл бұрын
The Isle of Purbeck have dry stone walls too, but I suppose that's (just) the south-west. I haven't seen any dry stone walls in the south-east of England.
@rhatty87
@rhatty87 Жыл бұрын
The hedgelaying championship 2022 was in Oxfordshire, it took place in November not far from RAF Benson where I live.
@peterhall2810
@peterhall2810 Жыл бұрын
The plants used in hedging are usually Hawthorne and Blackthorne (or Sloe). They both have a lot of very sharp thorns. These are used because you can cut them up to three quarters the way through the stems and they will still survive. So the plants you see at an angle are not fully cut through and will grow again making a very dense hedge.
@vickytaylor9155
@vickytaylor9155 Жыл бұрын
The vertical top stones are for two reasons. One for stability, and the other for security.
@ukunboxings2242
@ukunboxings2242 Жыл бұрын
I did a college course after school here in the UK, what was called environmental Conservation. I helped build a dry stone wall, was really interesting to do. 😊
@iantucker1433
@iantucker1433 Жыл бұрын
I learned hedgelaying from my father as a boy growing up on the farm. I've never forgot and lay the hedge around my property every 7 years (5 times now). I live in the county of Dorset so do it the Dorset way. I'll be in New England in September so will look out for dry stone walls.
@nowhere982
@nowhere982 Жыл бұрын
If I had land/farm I think I'd choose Hawthorn hedge because of the environmental advantages. Using Hawthorn gives berries to make excellent medicine and it gives a home to several different creatures. Love the idea of a living barrier.
@pamelamawby2850
@pamelamawby2850 Жыл бұрын
Hi ladies..... Great video, so very interesting and I thought a dying art but clearly not. Very intricate job and they are beautiful when you look at them
@enemde3025
@enemde3025 Жыл бұрын
Just remember, HADRIAN'S WALL is way older than these !! The stone wall is a feature in the LAKE DISTRICT as well. We have just had hedgelaying done on the country estate that I work at. It's a work of art.
@helenroberts1107
@helenroberts1107 Жыл бұрын
My front wall is a drystone wall. I love it. It has lots of pretty little flowers that are just starting to come out
@johntoffee2566
@johntoffee2566 Жыл бұрын
Just lovely.
@garyjordan4735
@garyjordan4735 Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed, as always. There's an old film from the war on you tube, called Hedging(1942), an old farmer working with a Land Girl. Best wishes from England.
@DrDaveW
@DrDaveW Жыл бұрын
Here in Cornwall we have "Cornish hedges". To look at them you would call them a wall as they basically dry stone. The main difference is that they a filled in the middle with soil, or as you would say "dirt". This encourages plants to grow, and the root system becomes part of the hedge. So it's a wall that starts to look like a beautiful hedge as the wild flowers and trees/shrubs grow. One problem though - they line the sides of our narrow one car lanes. They look fluffy with flowers and foliage, but just behind that is solid granite!
@KernowWella
@KernowWella Жыл бұрын
Two really interesting viewpoints. Love the rural traditions and those that keep them alive. There is a third type of hedge called a Cornish hedge, which is unique to my region. It is a combination of a dry-stone wall, (but never called a dry-stone wall). It is different to the type shown in the first film. They are built to 1.2 metres high, wider at the base and curve up to the top. Like a dry-stone wall, they are built in two halves, but the centre is rammed with earth. Then on top of the wall they have a conventional hedge planted and laid, of anything that is stock proof, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Gorse. Over time the whole thing grows into a solid mass of vegetation. Ther are some in the area that have been dated back to the bronze age. They are reputed to be the oldest man-made structure still in use for their original purpose.
@lat1419
@lat1419 Жыл бұрын
My own field boundaries in Pembs have the same "pembs hedge" boundaries. Local fields also date back to Iron and Bronze ages.
@KernowWella
@KernowWella Жыл бұрын
They do seem very similar. Not surprising with the shared heritage 👍
@alanhogg9939
@alanhogg9939 4 ай бұрын
On Lundy island one year I had to hide behind a wall with a ton of sheep all lined up during a massive hail and thunder storm... Didn't go on too long. (In the pub later, everybody said they thought we were all going to die with thunder and lightening all around and just above our heads. The sheep didn't mind that I was basically leaning on them and they were leaning on me. Only a hundred yards from the tiny cottage I was staying in - No way to get back until the storm had gone. So she's right about animals sheltering. Another time a young Cornish girl (20) called Amy was repairing a wall - I went over for a chat and she said it was where the Lundy ponies lean into the wall and scratch themselves. It finally fell.
@dabulltattoo
@dabulltattoo Жыл бұрын
In my younger years i used to do a lot of hedgelaying around the farms in the North East of UK, most farm hedgerows were mainly Howthorn
@pipmaple
@pipmaple Жыл бұрын
A farmer I know does this and has shown me bits and pieces of a “living wall”as he calls it.
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow Жыл бұрын
Perfect name for them!
@dinastanford7779
@dinastanford7779 Жыл бұрын
In Essex, there are old houses with decorative plasterwork on the outside. It's called pargeting. That's worth a look at.
@amc1461
@amc1461 Жыл бұрын
Both my Dad and the local farmers told me they used to use those hole to catch rabbit…so yes for smaller animals. Incidentally My dad was a Drystone Waller. Great video love seeing your enthusiasm ☺️ Nice seeing people still taking interest.
@leviking4891
@leviking4891 Жыл бұрын
been a builder 20yrs But dry stone is another Level. not easy its an art
@felixthecat265
@felixthecat265 Жыл бұрын
In the old days, before the wars, hedge laying was a job for the old boys in the village. They would often be paid in beer and it kept them out of mischief. Wire fencing came in between the wars and were the death knell of laid hedges, as were tractor mounted hedge clippers which only cut the top of a hedge but allow gaps to appear in the base. You can often see the remains of hedges along the sides of roads in UK where the hedge has been allowed to grow out. Stone walls were made from the stones pulled from the fields. As ploughs became deeper and cleared more stones, there was no need to pick more as the fields were pretty much stone free. I hate it when farmers repair gaps with wire!
@garystroud6153
@garystroud6153 Жыл бұрын
A great friend of ours used to live in a converted barn in Cumbria. The walls were "dry laid" some three feet thick of Cumbrian green slate. The inside was mostly lime plastered but during the conversion there were still several areas of just raw slate and there was no draft through the wall nor did rain penetrate. Their boundary walls were all dry stone using the local green slate too.
@youraccount7003
@youraccount7003 Жыл бұрын
Great post thanks and glad that you enjoyed it too. I've done both dry stone walling and hedge laying and it's fair to say that they are both incredibly satisfying. Hard work but if done correctly, they will last for many many years. I've always seen the dry stone walls of England as the eighth wonder of the world because of the immeasurable amount of work that they took to build. They first cleared the land of stones to be able to farm it and utilised the stone to create separate fields. Just imagine though that every single stone in every single wall and every single mile of them is picked up by bending down and lifting. Billions of times to create 120,000 miles of very useful "art".
@LittleNoiseBoy
@LittleNoiseBoy Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the exchange of info re US dry stone walls - that is indeed fascinating :-)
@wilsonmurillopalacio6953
@wilsonmurillopalacio6953 Жыл бұрын
Thank you, thank you mujeres hermosas, I didn't imagin this was as big as it is. Big hug
@elizabethsmith9962
@elizabethsmith9962 Жыл бұрын
Poem by English comedian Pam Ayres. "I am a dry stone waller. All day long I dry stone wall. Of all appalling callings, dry stone walling's worst of all."
@margaretnicol3423
@margaretnicol3423 Жыл бұрын
Oh look - it's N&D. OK so first coffee then settle down and play the video because I know I'm going to enjoy this. 🙂
@geoffmower8729
@geoffmower8729 Жыл бұрын
Hi gals, when I was three in England my dad planted a hedge around our front yard. When it grew he would go out on Sundays and trim it. My sister and I loved it because across the street was an old English pub and the drunks would lean on the hedge and all there small change-coins would fall out of there pockets. My sister and I would go out the next morning and pick up the coins. That was in the early 60s. We moved to Australia in 64 and have lived in South Australia ever since. My sister and I are the only ones left now from our original family. I looked on Google earth at our old house in the outskirts of London. The area has been cleaned up and is now a really nice looking neighbourhood. The pub has long gone but the hedge my dad planted is still there.
@julianbarber4708
@julianbarber4708 Жыл бұрын
Go for it. Debbie!
@jimharrison748
@jimharrison748 Жыл бұрын
Whole lotta love for the T shirt!
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