Local guides
No generic hedging blog posts. Every guide here shows a genuine before and after, an overgrown hedge, a dispute, a bare plot, and exactly what happened to get from one to the other, written by someone who works this ground.
Reduction & renovation
What a neglected farmland-boundary hawthorn hedge looks like before renovation, what it looks like after a two-winter staged cut, and the RHS-backed method in between.
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What a blocked-light dispute looks like before it's resolved, what a compliant boundary looks like after, and the Dover District Council process (including the real £450 fee) in between.
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What a bare boundary looks like before planting, what an established native hedge looks like a few years on, and the bare-root planting method that works on thin North Downs chalk.
Read the guideHedge-laying
What a gap-prone, machine-trimmed field boundary hedge around Shepherdswell looks like before it's laid, what it looks like after laying in the South of England style, and what happens in between.
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