Monthly Archives: February 2012
Arts and crafts topiary hedges at Otterington Hall.
Chris Crowder, the head gardener at Levens Hall, was kind enough to end me these pictures of the beautiful topiary hedges at Otterington Hall in North Yorkshire. Designed in the arts and crafts style, they date back to to approximately … Continue reading
Filed under Notable Hedges, Topiary
Stilt Hedges at Hatfield House
This is another picture that was cut from the book for space reasons, a nice pair of stilt hedges at Hatfield. Stilt hedges (lines of adjacent trees cut so that it looks like a hedge on trunks) have been a … Continue reading
Filed under Garden History, Notable Hedges, Topiary
Veddw House Garden
Anne Wareham, author of The Bad Tempered Gardener, has rightly taken me to task for not including her gorgeous hedges at Veddw House Garden in my book. I haven’t made it out to Monmouthshire in the last year or so, … Continue reading
Filed under Gardening Thoughts, Notable Hedges
Fern Fever – new book on the Victorian fern craze
Ferns are one of those strange types of plants, like mosses, that are truly ancient and undoubtedly fascinating in their own way, but often overlooked in favour of more glamorous cousins. When I come across a patch of ferns in … Continue reading
Filed under Garden History
Hedge Britannia – nice new cover for the book
Those nice people at Bloomsbury have been working on typsetting and designing the book, and have just sent me this new cover, which I think is looking lovely. (Click on it for a larger view). It’s out in May.
Filed under The Hedge Philosopher
Hedges and bees – and the future of our crops
There is a good article in the Guardian (here) about research done by Northampton University’s Landscape and Biodiversity Research Group showing that bees use hedgerows to navigate around the countryside. Of course we already know how crucial bees are for … Continue reading
Filed under Hedges and Biodiversity, Rural Britain
