Hedging your bets: Important habitat gives people a sense of place

Hedges have many biodiversity functions and are a wildlife habitat, but they also give a landscape its character and field pattern

Gardening Column European honey bee Hedgerows provide an excellent supply of food for pollinators

THE post-Christmas lull is normally a time when farmers and others decide to trim hedges before the new growth and the start of the bird nesting season.

Hedges give the Irish landscape its distinctive character and field pattern. And they provide an important wildlife habitat especially for woodland flora and fauna.