GARDENS
Hedge trimming for beginners
No idea where to start? Stephen Anderton has everything you need to know
The Times
Did your hedges grow in the drought or stand still? My beech hedges put out a few ginger whiskers, very slowly, and now they’re beginning to fluff out seriously.
But what’s the best way to go about clipping a hedge?
Well, there are many kinds of hedge. There are mixed native hedges — habitat heaven — where it’s pretty safe to cut now, and what matters most is roughing the thing into the desired profile. There are precision hedges in high-gloss gardens where every whisker is a whisker too many. Then there are my hedges and yours, which just do a job, not perfect, but which we want to look even and stay manageable over time to keep separate, or private, various bits of garden.
