FRINGE BENEFITS
Anyone who has flown over Britain will be familiar with the view from the plane’s windows: a patchwork quilt of fields stitched together by hedgerows. It’s a quintessential image of the British landscape.
‘Historically, hedgerows were boundary markers, a way of keeping animals in or out,’ says Nigel Adams, a professional hedgelayer specialising in countryside management in the Chiltern Hills. Boisterous bullocks can push through a line of saplings, but a barrier is formed if
