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
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Prevention of soil erosion
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They can help improve soil health and vegetation growth, providing additional forage for livestock
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Root systems of hedgerows regulate water movement and help prevent flooding
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If well managed hedgerows provide long term cost effective stockproof barriers
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A mature hedgerow helps prevent the spread of airborne disease
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Nesting and feeding opportunities for farmland birds
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Sequestration of carbon
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Hedgerows can also help fight the potential impacts of climate change by providing shade and shelter from weather extremes
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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.
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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
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Mature hedgerow trees are an important roosting habitat for bats
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55 of 110 species of wild birds use hedgerows
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Hedgerows provide cover for small mammals. The barn owl hunts along hedgerows for prey such as the field mouse
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Birds, bats and butterflies travel along hedgerows, rather than cross open fields
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Hedgerows provide growing conditions for native native flora
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Hedgerow (berries from flora) are an important food source for wildlife, partially during the winter months
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Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna
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Blacktorn
Prunus spinosa
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Holly
Ilex aquifolium
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Crab Apple
Malus sylvestris
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Guelder Rose
Viburnum opulus
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Elder
Sambucus nigra
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Spindle
Euonymus europaeus
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Silver Birch
Betula pendula
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Rowan / Mountain Ash
Sorbus aucuparia
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Wild cherry
Prunus avium
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Hazel
Corylus avellana
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Scots Pine
Pinus sylvestris
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Oak, Pedunculate
Quercus robur
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Oak, Sessile
Quercus petraea
Osier willow
Salix viminalis
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Goat Willow
Salix caprea
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