Hedge Laying: North Somerset Style

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5 жыл бұрын

Here at The Royal Bath & West Show, experts Clive Bethell and Paul Gulliford of the Wrington and Burrington Hedge Laying Society talk us through their demonstration of the particular `North Somerset` style. They show us the traditional techniques and tools used to create a living, stock-proof hedge that is sensitive to the natural surroundings. We see a display of miniature living hedges representing styles from around the country and witness Clive and Paul`s obvious pride in their particular tradition and society. / wringtonandburringtonh... www.hedgelaying.org.uk/ www.bathandwest.com/royal-bath...
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@sarahpitt1862 4 ай бұрын

Lovely video with so much information about laying hedges. Thank you.

@mrsgbee8246 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful we need more of these hedges. Many millions more. Before it’s too late.

@Immortal__ 5 жыл бұрын

To keep the flying carpets and sandals out?

@dr.lexwinter8604 4 жыл бұрын

We need more English, many millions more, before it's too late.

@RSLtreecare 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic, there's a great need to keep up these skills. I am going to try this season. I have cleared tree and hedges. But not learn to lay them. The farm I 🤗 grow up on did this, the older men...1964-1973. then most of the old hedges where taken out, those that where left have been cut by machine.

@GrizzlyGroundswell 2 жыл бұрын

The style of hedge laying illustration at 5:04 is outstanding! Where can I get a copy of that illustration?

@fullerspubcollector 2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@TristanMorrow 5 жыл бұрын

Overheard at the competition: one hedge layer says to the other, "I'll hold the hedge stake, you take up that mallet, and, when I nod my head, hit it!" 5:07

@lindasheets813 5 жыл бұрын

This was excellent, thank you for the video

@thetruth9783 Жыл бұрын

This guy won the hedge laying competition on Clarksons Farm

@BALDNHAPPY 5 жыл бұрын

Great video

@tamitng 5 жыл бұрын

Glad to see that the old skills that were about to go extinct some years ago have gotten a lot of interest now. 🍀

@alaskankare 5 жыл бұрын

so do you have to plant the year before? what if you want a hedge but have no trees or alders?

@BobBlarneystone 4 жыл бұрын

Great idea, but what species become the hedge? What North America species are suitable?

@garrickbrewer8907 3 жыл бұрын

I would imagine some would be, but for one reason or another this really didn't come to the states as far as I am aware. At least up here in New England, hedges were never really used from what I can tell, only stone walls, as the stones were constantly rising up in the feilds every year, so they had to be moved anyway.

@Jaeger04 Жыл бұрын

Maybe the North American native plants like hazel

@Kolajer 5 жыл бұрын

That's how I imagine Sam Gamgee talking :)

@dr.lexwinter8604 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing rots my soul harder than finding people having the only point of contact with ancient peoples being some stupid Hollywood trope. .___.

@banjax66 5 жыл бұрын

In the video you said you was making the hedge from Chestnut. Would that be Horse Chestnut or Sweet Chestnut?

@stevewilliams2498 5 жыл бұрын

Just the stakes.

@futurecaredesign 5 жыл бұрын

And from what I know about coppice woodland management Sweet Chestnut is the most used species.

@Jaeger04 Жыл бұрын

Or Hazel

@musicman6245 2 жыл бұрын

Which kind of tree can be use? And thank you so much

@Jaeger04 Жыл бұрын

Hazel, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Dog Rose many others

@musicman6245 Жыл бұрын

@@Jaeger04 Thank you, very usefull knowledge

@jkelectrical 4 жыл бұрын

"All went a hedge from there!"

@antman-uc9hh 5 жыл бұрын

Im wondering would it be easier to cut them back to waste high and next year the new shoots will thicken it..just a thought :-)

@maxdecphoenix 5 жыл бұрын

these are functional barriers, not ornamental garden tripe. They're laid low to prevent animals passage from field to field. If you just continually cut them at the top, the bottom would be too thin to offer any obstruction. They've been doing this for thousands of years. It was brought to Britain by the Romans, which implies a military purpose originally.

@antman-uc9hh 5 жыл бұрын

maxdecphoenix I like the idea behind them, its just they take so much time & work.. imagine doing afew hundred yards of it?! :-)

@maxdecphoenix 5 жыл бұрын

@@antman-uc9hh I don't have to imagine, I've laid quite a bit of hedge at my home in south Mississippi.

@futurecaredesign 5 жыл бұрын

@@antman-uc9hh Yes its a lot of work but at no investment if you can grow the material. And also they are great wildlife habitat. As in, songbirds and other small critters can hardly do without small brush like this.

@maxdecphoenix 4 жыл бұрын

@Randy Bingham doing it 'in the woods' probably wouldn't be ideal. Pleached trees need full sun so they can bounce back and seal over the wounds. Remember, essentially what you are doing is opening a major infection-point in the tree, inches off the ground or lower if you carelessly allow the split to contine into the root ball. Trees/shrubs need every advantage when recovering from this (some more than others though), this means full sun. Least they succumb and die. Having said that, we have so many trash trees and shrubs down here (being in the middle of migratory bird routes we get seeds from north most canada down to equitorial south america) so i've tried pleaching on several types of trees. by far the only one i've found that is just simply not suited to amatuer hands would be the angry-grained shrub Yaupon Holly. Which you may have in illinois. It's a domestic plant the natives used for medicinal/purification rituals. Other than that, I advise you to just get out there and try it. particularly if they're invasive. I practiced a bunch on a Chinese Privet which is a naturalized invasive and posing serious issues down here.