Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Healthy Hedgerows is a rapid hedgerow health checking survey. With just a handful of questions, this hedgerow health-checker will place each hedge you survey in the lifecycle and give you instant management options. It has been designed for farmers and landowners that want to understand their whole hedge network and create a hedge management plan at the farm scale.
By answering just a handful of simple questions, it can help you understand where each hedge is in its natural lifecycle, and work out how best to manage it. The structure and quality of hedgerows will always deteriorate if they are managed in the same way for too long, whether this is annual cutting at the same height, or not cutting at all. In fact, they are at their best when managed according to their lifecycle, which may include trimming, incremental increase in height and width, and eventually rejuvenation.
Quickly and simply you can rapidly assess all the hedges on your land, allowing you to use the management options generated to create a farm or landscape scale management plan for a healthy network of hedges.
The healthy hedgerows lifecycle which is used in the app is based on the 10-point hedgerow management scale developed by Nigel Adams from the National Hedgelaying Society and Hedgelink nigeladamscountrysidemanagement.co.uk/hedge-management-lifecycle.php.
Find out more about the survey:
hedgerowsurvey.ptes.org/healthy-hedgerows-survey
Healthy Hedgerows is a rapid hedgerow health checking survey. With just a handful of questions, this hedgerow health-checker will place each hedge you survey in the lifecycle and give you instant management options. It has been designed for farmers and landowners that want to understand their whole hedge network and create a hedge management plan at the farm scale.
By answering just a handful of simple questions, it can help you understand where each hedge is in its natural lifecycle, and work out how best to manage it. The structure and quality of hedgerows will always deteriorate if they are managed in the same way for too long, whether this is annual cutting at the same height, or not cutting at all. In fact, they are at their best when managed according to their lifecycle, which may include trimming, incremental increase in height and width, and eventually rejuvenation.
Quickly and simply you can rapidly assess all the hedges on your land, allowing you to use the management options generated to create a farm or landscape scale management plan for a healthy network of hedges.
The healthy hedgerows lifecycle which is used in the app is based on the 10-point hedgerow management scale developed by Nigel Adams from the National Hedgelaying Society and Hedgelink nigeladamscountrysidemanagement.co.uk/hedge-management-lifecycle.php.
Find out more about the survey:
hedgerowsurvey.ptes.org/healthy-hedgerows-survey
