Grow Wild Biodiversity Garden Design offers native hedge planting services for gardens and farmers. Planting season is from now until Mid March. Our native hedgerow planting for farmers meets all the requirements for the GLAS scheme.

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Benefits for Farmers

Hedgerows provide shelter to livestock and crops

Prevention of soil erosion

They can help improve soil health and vegetation growth, providing additional forage for livestock

Root systems of hedgerows regulate water movement and help prevent flooding

If well managed hedgerows provide long term cost effective stockproof barriers

A mature hedgerow helps prevent the spread of airborne disease

Nesting and feeding opportunities for farmland birds

Sequestration of carbon

Hedgerows can also help fight the potential impacts of climate change by providing shade and shelter from weather extremes

There are just under 49,119 active farmers participating in the GLAS scheme, almost 15% of these planted a new hedgerow as part of their GLAS plan

Native Hedges create sound and pollution barriers

Hide your neighbors

Deter unwanted guests.

Noticeable increase of wildlife using your gardens

Long seasons of interest, from the spring and summer blossoms, through to autumn colour right tough into berries during the winter.

With less than 2% of Ireland's native woods remaining, hedgerows are a vital habitat for Ireland’s wildlife

Mature hedgerow trees are an important roosting habitat for bats

55 of 110 species of wild birds use hedgerows

Hedgerows provide cover for small mammals. The barn owl hunts along hedgerows for prey such as the field mouse

Birds, bats and butterflies travel along hedgerows, rather than cross open fields

Hedgerows provide growing conditions for native native flora

Hedgerow (berries from flora) are an important food source for wildlife, partially during the winter months

Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna

Blacktorn

Prunus spinosa

Holly

Ilex aquifolium

Crab Apple

Malus sylvestris

Guelder Rose

Viburnum opulus

Elder

Sambucus nigra

Spindle

Euonymus europaeus

Silver Birch

Betula pendula

Rowan / Mountain Ash

Sorbus aucuparia

Wild cherry

Prunus avium

Hazel

Corylus avellana

Scots Pine

Pinus sylvestris

Oak, Pedunculate

Quercus robur

Oak, Sessile

Quercus petraea

Osier willow

Salix viminalis

Goat Willow

Salix caprea

Native Hedge Planting

Benefits for Farmers

Benefits for Gardeners

There are just under 49,119 active farmers participating in the GLAS scheme, almost 15% of these planted a new hedgerow as part of their GLAS plan

Benefits for Wildlife

Species available for planting