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/fɛd͡ʒ/ · noun
(horticulture) A fence made up of living plants, especially willow, thus somewhat resembling a hedge..
What do you get when you cross a fence with a hedge? The answer is a fedge, which you can make by weaving fresh willow branches together, with their bases nestled into moist soil so they take root and grow. You can start a fedge with willow or other woody cuttings gathered from woods or roadsides […]
Fast growing and quick to take root, even from a cut stem, willow is a great sustainable resource that can be used to make living fences, or fedges – as well as retaining structures, arches, and arbours. The best time to make your own fedge is in the winter when the willow is dormant.
What's in a name? Hedge, Fedge, Living Fencerow, Fredge ... […] A tentative truce between British and American agricultural geographers over terminology was brokered when a young British landscape designer trained at Oxford tried to popularize the term fedge in her book High-Impact, Low-Carbon Gardening, which was simultaneously released on both sides of the pond. And yet the term has not gained much currency, so I will propose another, hopefully more memorable one. I suggest that we rally behind another syllogism, the fredge, which takes its f and r from fence and row, and the rest of its letters from hedge and edge.
Ryan Kelly has a young fedge (a living willow hedge). Alan Jefferson has a boundary windbreak of substantial hawthorn. Both ask if I think it would be feasible or a good idea to plant roses to mingle with the hedging plants, and if so, what kind of rose would I suggest.
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Fedge means (horticulture) A fence made up of living plants, especially willow, thus somewhat resembling a hedge..
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What do you get when you cross a fence with a hedge? The answer is a fedge, which you can make by weaving fresh willow branches together, with their bases nestled into moist soil so they take root and grow. You can start a fedge with willow or other woody cuttings gathered from woods or roadsides […]
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