FOOD AND MORE
f your hedge is not too closely clipped or is planted along its length with small trees, there is the opportunity to make it productive as well as practical. For example, brambles will almost certainly spring up, seeded by birds, and can be allowed to flower and fruit; hazel can be allowed to form a small tree when it can be coppiced for hazel rods and also harvested for nuts. Sloes can be used to make sloe gin and
