Excellent video, I’ve asked the local park rangers to leave as many branches as they can from a fallen tree. They tend to clear these. If they leave any I will create some dead hedging.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond, I've been travelling for the last month. what sort of park rangers tidy up the woods? They should know about the benefits of standing and fallen dead wood.
Nice work 👍. We just did a dead hedge bin store, not sure why I didn't think of it before as it looks so much better than just staring at ugly plastic bins!
I have a dead hedge pile. No stakes, just over the years I’ve piled Ash tree & buddleia cuttings up on it, it’s about 5ft. Although the Ash as gone now as it was too close too the house and I was getting to old to climb into it every year, keeping it at a height of about 12ft. I still add buddleia to it each year. The Ash is a log pile now.
Hello Tracey. Thank you for watching and commenting. I used a long reach pole saw to pollard the birch tree. I used to climb into it but have gone for the easier feet on the ground option. I'm pretty sure Ash and Sycamore can be coppiced and they grow back good strong stems each year, like Willow. So you're sounds more like a brash pile but does exactly the same thing. Do you keep watch on what uses the pile?
Wilderness Tamed Ash - they’re great for pollarding something I could have done but the land space as the tree continues to send up growth would have been space taken up by an unproductive form for the wildlife I garden for. So when weighing up the value I opted to have it removed. I still have Apple, birches, cherry, hazel and an oak (in a pot) Im fortunate in that my garden is bordered by ash, though sadly it looks like the dreaded Ash Dieback may have taken one tree out, reported. For an old Victorian terrace nr Birmingham we do well for trees much to most of my neighbours frustrations, “they make so much mess don’t they?” I plod on trying to support the local wildlife. 💚
@@wildlifegardener-tracey6206 Sounds like you have a great mix of trees. I was a bit disappointed that the birch in this video turned out to be a Japanese variety, so it grows straight up, not like the nice weeping habit of our native birches. But I've allowed it to survive and this is how I use it now. It's funny what you say about peoples attitudes to trees. What's wrong with leaf fall and a few twigs? Ok I know some of the big ones can randomly drop a branch now and then, but you have to expect that.
Hello Jacinta. Many thanks for watching and commenting. This year I'm pretty sure a wren was nesting in there. I tend not to disturb these dead hedges once they are built. Maybe next spring and summer I should put my trail cam up to see what activity there is. It's pretty tightly packed, so hopefully what ever is in there should be safe, sheltered and warm.
@@WildernessTamed that's so exciting! I've only seen one wren in my life, beautiful. I'm going to start building my dead hedge but I'm concerned about putting my diseased branches from pruning our old citrus in there. Any ideas? Seems a shame to burn them but I'm concerned about harbouring diseases to continue infecting my orchard 🧐
Im going to start mine next month, mine will be around 2-2½ meter tall in some places and 1½ meters in other places. I havent seen any dead hedges on here that were build that tall but Im going to anker the posts in concrete
I would avoid concrete to be honest. It traps water around the base of the posts which accelerates rot. Try charcoaling the posts to help preserve them in soil for a thousand years or more. There are plenty of videos on RUclips about preserving wood using this technique. I use a blow torch from a DIY store to scorch the timber before I bury it in the ground.
building a dead hedge slowly but surely in my mums garden to provide a bit of shelter and privacy in a gap in the trees! :) lovely work!
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Excellent video, I’ve asked the local park rangers to leave as many branches as they can from a fallen tree. They tend to clear these. If they leave any I will create some dead hedging.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond, I've been travelling for the last month. what sort of park rangers tidy up the woods? They should know about the benefits of standing and fallen dead wood.
Nice work 👍. We just did a dead hedge bin store, not sure why I didn't think of it before as it looks so much better than just staring at ugly plastic bins!
Thanks for watching and commenting. What an excellent idea.
Excellent use of brash.
Thank you for watching and commenting. You can hide all kinds of stuff in there.
Marvellous, thank you.
Thank you for watching and commenting. Glad you liked it.
I have a dead hedge pile. No stakes, just over the years I’ve piled Ash tree & buddleia cuttings up on it, it’s about 5ft. Although the Ash as gone now as it was too close too the house and I was getting to old to climb into it every year, keeping it at a height of about 12ft. I still add buddleia to it each year. The Ash is a log pile now.
Hello Tracey. Thank you for watching and commenting. I used a long reach pole saw to pollard the birch tree. I used to climb into it but have gone for the easier feet on the ground option. I'm pretty sure Ash and Sycamore can be coppiced and they grow back good strong stems each year, like Willow. So you're sounds more like a brash pile but does exactly the same thing. Do you keep watch on what uses the pile?
Wilderness Tamed Ash - they’re great for pollarding something I could have done but the land space as the tree continues to send up growth would have been space taken up by an unproductive form for the wildlife I garden for. So when weighing up the value I opted to have it removed. I still have Apple, birches, cherry, hazel and an oak (in a pot) Im fortunate in that my garden is bordered by ash, though sadly it looks like the dreaded Ash Dieback may have taken one tree out, reported. For an old Victorian terrace nr Birmingham we do well for trees much to most of my neighbours frustrations, “they make so much mess don’t they?” I plod on trying to support the local wildlife. 💚
@@wildlifegardener-tracey6206 Sounds like you have a great mix of trees. I was a bit disappointed that the birch in this video turned out to be a Japanese variety, so it grows straight up, not like the nice weeping habit of our native birches. But I've allowed it to survive and this is how I use it now. It's funny what you say about peoples attitudes to trees. What's wrong with leaf fall and a few twigs? Ok I know some of the big ones can randomly drop a branch now and then, but you have to expect that.
This is awesome, thanks a lot!! Any update as to how it's being used by wildlife? Thanks
Hello Jacinta. Many thanks for watching and commenting. This year I'm pretty sure a wren was nesting in there. I tend not to disturb these dead hedges once they are built. Maybe next spring and summer I should put my trail cam up to see what activity there is. It's pretty tightly packed, so hopefully what ever is in there should be safe, sheltered and warm.
@@WildernessTamed that's so exciting! I've only seen one wren in my life, beautiful. I'm going to start building my dead hedge but I'm concerned about putting my diseased branches from pruning our old citrus in there. Any ideas? Seems a shame to burn them but I'm concerned about harbouring diseases to continue infecting my orchard 🧐
The hedgehogs will love this
@robertstallard7836 That's a great idea, I will let them off with the rent though on the account that they eat up the slugs
Im going to start mine next month, mine will be around 2-2½ meter tall in some places and 1½ meters in other places. I havent seen any dead hedges on here that were build that tall but Im going to anker the posts in concrete
I would avoid concrete to be honest. It traps water around the base of the posts which accelerates rot. Try charcoaling the posts to help preserve them in soil for a thousand years or more. There are plenty of videos on RUclips about preserving wood using this technique. I use a blow torch from a DIY store to scorch the timber before I bury it in the ground.
@@WildernessTamed that might be but with the height that I need I don't see any other way make g sure that's it's secured their
I would think those posts will rot and snap at ground level after about a year
3 years on and they're still doing OK. Even the older dead hedge still has some original uprights in. Due to replace a few this coming autumn.