By agrimag
Hedges are usually replaced with walls or fences typically made of treated wood or plastic. These railings often hinder animals that usually cross the area. It can also divide wildlife habitats.
These factors make the idea of a wildlife hedge a better option.
A wildlife hedge is a boundary made by a combination of different kinds of plants like fruit or herbal trees with taller or shorter species, shrubs, bushes, flowering plants, and nooks and crannies for cover and nesting. It provides habitat for birds, pollinators, and other forms of life. It also plays the role of a regular fence by creating privacy and defining the limits of a property.
Using a mixture of native flowering plants and trees that can follow their own growth habits makes the wildlife hedge low maintenance once it’s already up and running.
According to Janet Marinelli, who wrote about wildlife hedges for the National Wildlife Foundation, it is better to start with flowering trees. Native shrubs and vines are also helpful in providing fruit for birds and nectar for pollinators, which are important to farm ecology.
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