{"id":5677,"date":"2018-01-24T21:36:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2018-02-13T20:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T20:52:39","slug":"lwt-hedge-laying-course-with-clive-leeke-at-gt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/lwt-hedge-laying-course-with-clive-leeke-at-gt\/","title":{"rendered":"LWT Hedge-Laying Course with Clive Leeke at GT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Netty delighted to find a Tawny Owl feather in the reserve, for the first time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Margaret and the team delivering the binders to the meadow in front of the hedge site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The hedge before we started: tall, leggy, and apparently never cut or laid before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clive demonstrating how to cut a pleacher, a Hawthorn stem that you can then lay to form a barrier. Somehow it looked quite easy when he did it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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… and down goes the pleacher, that’s all you have to do.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Well we managed it somehow, our first pleached Hawthorn (a complex job with a lot of stems to lay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Clive Leeke showing us how to sharpen a stake with a few swift axe-blows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hedge-Staker extraordinaire. The idea is to space them a cubit apart, in a straight line, trapping every pleached stem. The binders then retain the stakes. Well, that’s the theory…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Weaving binders around hedge stakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jules boshing down the nicely woven-in binders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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First section of hedge completed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,88],"tags":[1241,1239,16,1238,1242,1234,1240,737,1243],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-nature-reserves","tag-binders","tag-boshing","tag-gunnersbury-triangle-nature-reserve","tag-hedge-laying","tag-laid-hedge","tag-making-stakes","tag-pleacher","tag-tawny-owl","tag-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}