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The boundaries of beauty

It is said that you can roughly date a British hedgerow by the amount of woody plants to be found in a

30m length – generally speaking, a new species is added every 100 years – and it seems many of our field boundaries are truly ancient. It’s sobering, in the midst of our current pandemic, that some of them will have been growing through the Great Plague of the 17th century or even the medieval Black Death. And with that age has come great beauty, as a host of herbaceous plants too – primroses, bluebells, ferns and many more – create a wonderful wildlife habitat. Find out more on page 10.