LAID HAWTHORNE HEDGE

Hawthorne is a handy spiky bush which has been used for hundreds of years as fencing material.  Not as durable as stone, it takes much less effort to make a hedge.  

It has to be thick to work, so there are two ways of achieving this – plant a lot of bushes in a row, about 4-6 feet across:

 or a single row of woven plants:

LAID HAWTHORNE HEDGE

This involves letting the hawthorne grow to about 6ft then partly cutting it at the base and lying it down.  Hawthorne will grow from a part of the stem, so if the stem is laid flat the twigs sprout up from that.  If the stem is woven with others, and held with vertical stakes, then the stakes are woven at the top with willow branches so a solid hedge results:

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