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Hooper's Hedgerow History Hypothesis

Max Hooper has just died. He was a proper botanist, who became known because of his work on British hedges in the 60s. From the obituaries and his writing he...

Hooper's Hedgerow History Hypothesis

Max Hooper has just died. He was a proper botanist, who became known because of his work on British hedges in the 60s. From the obituaries and his writing he...

Hedge Planting In The Wet

Hedge and copse scheme, Cambridgeshire. By my reckoning, this bare root planting season the Habitat Aid hedge elves will have planted something over 130,000 plants around the country. There's some...

Hedge Planting In The Wet

Hedge and copse scheme, Cambridgeshire. By my reckoning, this bare root planting season the Habitat Aid hedge elves will have planted something over 130,000 plants around the country. There's some...

Hedgerow Harvest

There's never a really good time of year to flail a hedge, but it's particularly galling to see so much hedge cutting going on at this time of year. It...

Hedgerow Harvest

There's never a really good time of year to flail a hedge, but it's particularly galling to see so much hedge cutting going on at this time of year. It...

Planting Native Hedges: Why and How To

Why and how to plant a native hedge - the ultimate guide!

Planting Native Hedges: Why and How To

Why and how to plant a native hedge - the ultimate guide!

We Need Botanists not Bond Traders.

A quick rant following the Spending Review, and not concluding as you might expect.

We Need Botanists not Bond Traders.

A quick rant following the Spending Review, and not concluding as you might expect.

Disappearing Hedgerows

We are STILL losing our hedgerows

Disappearing Hedgerows

We are STILL losing our hedgerows