Native Hedge Planting
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
Benefits for Gardeners
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.
Benefits for Wildlife
Species available for planting
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