Picking the right hedging to surround your home

Peter Dowdall looks at hedging which is beneficial for bees and birds but also for security and seasonal blooms. 

It’s true isn’t it, that when you see something regularly, when it’s all around us and we don’t need to look for it, then we start to not see it.

I often think that when I look at some of our most common garden plants such as the hardy Fuchsias and Foxgloves that if they were hard to grow here or difficult to source then we gardeners would go to so much trouble to create the right growing conditions for them, scouring plant fairs and online for quality specimens such is their beauty.