Plant a fruiting hedge

Why not plant your own stretch of species-rich hedgerow to add colour and interest to your garden and delight the local wildlife? It’s certainly a much cheaper and more attractive way of creating a boundary than buying a fence or building a wall. Here are some tips.

โ€ข Use a Native hedge which includes hawthorn, dog rose, field maple, hazel, gelder rose, spindle and blackthorn.ย  Add in a crab apple , some blackcurrants, raspberriesย  and red currants.

โ€ข Fruit bushes can be planted at very close spacings in a hedge, but itโ€™s still really important to avoid planting too densely.

โ€ข Trim your established hedge every other year to allow for flowers and fruiting.