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Hedgerow Restoration & Countryside Management
Hedgerow Restoration & Countryside Management
Traditional hedgelaying and practical countryside management services across Swansea and neighbouring counties.
Renulz Hedgelaying Contractors provides specialist hedgerow restoration and associated countryside management services across South Wales.
Our work focuses on restoring, establishing and maintaining healthy rural boundaries while supporting the wider landscape and its wildlife.
Traditional Hedgelaying
Traditional Hedgelaying
Traditional hedgelaying is at the centre of what we do.
The technique involves partially cutting (pleaching) and laying suitable living stems along the line of an established hedge, creating a dense living boundary while allowing the hedge to regenerate.
A properly laid hedge can:
Encourage vigorous new growth
Create a dense and effective living boundary
Extend the useful life of an established hedge
Provide valuable habitat and shelter for wildlife
Maintain the traditional character of the landscape
Every hedge is different. Species, age, condition, structure and location all influence the most appropriate approach.
Our aim is to work with the existing hedge wherever possible, restoring it in a way that encourages healthy long-term growth.
Hedge Restoration & Rejuvenation
Hedge Restoration & Rejuvenation
Many established hedgerows gradually become overgrown, gappy or structurally weak when they are no longer regularly managed.
Restoration can give these hedges a new lease of life.
Depending on the condition of the hedge, work may include traditional hedgelaying, coppicing, selective cutting, gap management and other appropriate rejuvenation techniques.
The objective isn't simply to make a hedge look tidy. It is to create a healthy, sustainable hedge capable of continuing to function as both a boundary and habitat into the future.
Hedge Planting
Hedge Planting
New hedgerows can provide long-term benefits for both land management and wildlife.
Renulz undertakes new hedge planting for agricultural boundaries, field divisions, estate landscapes, wildlife habitat, landscape restoration and the replacement of lost or damaged hedgerows.
Where appropriate, native hedgerow species can be used to create diverse and resilient living boundaries that complement the surrounding landscape.
Ongoing Hedge Maintenance
Ongoing Hedge Maintenance
Restoring or planting a hedge is only the beginning. Appropriate ongoing management helps encourage strong growth, maintain structure and prevent hedgerows gradually returning to an overgrown or neglected condition.
Renulz can provide follow-up hedgerow management as part of a longer-term approach to maintaining healthy, functional boundaries.
Countryside Management
Countryside Management
Practical rural land management services supporting hedgerows, habitats and the wider countryside.
COPPICING
Traditional coppice management can rejuvenate woody vegetation, encourage vigorous regrowth and form part of wider hedgerow and habitat restoration.
Renulz undertakes coppicing where appropriate as part of practical countryside management projects.
RURAL FENCING
Installation, repair and maintenance of rural fencing for agricultural, estate and countryside management requirements.
Where fencing and hedgerow work are required together, both can be considered as part of the wider boundary management project.
VEGETATION CLEARANCE
Targeted vegetation clearance to support hedgerow restoration, access, habitat management and wider countryside projects.
Clearance is undertaken as part of a practical management objective, with consideration given to the surrounding site and vegetation.
CONSERVATION LAND MANAGEMENT
Practical countryside management work supporting biodiversity, habitat connectivity and the long-term condition of rural landscapes.
Renulz works with landowners and organisations to deliver appropriate management as part of wider conservation and land stewardship objectives.
Have a Project in Mind?
Have a Project in Mind?
From individual hedgerows to wider countryside management projects, contact Renulz to discuss your requirements.
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