The perfect English hedgerow is an ephemeral thing and this year I was lucky to be on the spot at the right time. The ingredients are:
Hedges (of course!)
Key trees are oak, ash, blackthorn or sloe, beech, hazel and the occasional horse chestnut, but absolutely vital to a spring hedgerow is hawthorn, or as it’s known when in flower, “May”.
Occasionally the “hedge” is a wall…
…and there should be the odd gate or gap to allow a view of the fields beyond.
Wild flowers peeping out from the grass;
And last but by no means least: cow parsley. Not that spectacular seen singly,
but in drifts…beautiful!
