Choose a mixture of hedging trees and shrubs; birch, beech, oak, hazel, dogwoods and hawthorn are ideal. If you have a little patience, the best and cheapest way to create a native hedge is from ...
Monty plants a hawthorn hedge in the orchard, prunes a climbing rose and starts to plant tulips for next spring. Sue Kent meets a gardener who has radically transformed the topography of her plot.