At the previous meeting on the 28th January, we coppiced some of the hazel bushes to reduce excess crowding and shading of the woodland floor, to encourage more growth of woodland flowers such as bluebells, wood anemones, celandines, wild arum, etc. Today we used some of the cut hazel branches and twigs to build a “dead hedge”. This used the stouter hazel poles, cut to length and sharpened at one end, hammered into the ground as uprights to form an enclosure about three metres long by 0.5 metres wide.

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