been among the few winners of Brexit"; with independent farm policy, the government has increasingly compensated farmers for providing public goods such as maintaining hedges, with farmers being "paid £70m for tending to hedgerows in 2024, up from £26m the year before."

Dating

Hedges that have existed for hundreds of years are colonised by additional species. This may be useful as a means of determining the age of the hedge. Hooper's rule (or Hooper's law,

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