Hazel for coppice

[Jakejakeyjakejake]

Hi all ok so I have a three metre section In my garden that needs hedging the dogs keep escaping :| and was think I'd like to grow a hazel hedge that I can cut once a yr and use for making supports for the allotment and even for the fire .. I have no clue if this is viable or what anyone able to offer any advise on types of willow I cab use prices well anything info or help please


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[veggiechicken]

Hazel or willow Jake?
Hazel can be coppiced (cut down to a stump) about every 7 years. You may be able to take some sticks before then but its not an instant hedge!
I don't know anything about willow growing.

[AllInContainers]

I was only looking at edible hedgerow packs/offers the other day, and can't remember where ..... oops!

I think those two issues (keeping the pooches in and staking plants) sound like they need two separate solutions - as each adversely affect the other in a way

[Hazel at the Hill]

Hazel can be coppiced (cut down to a stump) about every 7 years.

I think that quick growing hedging of willow is your plan here for stopping the dogs escaping - v quick to establish - just stick 5' willow sticks (whips?) a foot apart and within a few months they will be a hedge.

I must add that I don't have any direct experience of this, but any thread which advocates cutting hazel down to a stump deserves at least a token reply!

[veggiechicken]

How tall are you Hazel? Is it time for a bit of pruning?

[WendyC]

If you planted the willow at 45 degrees one way and then 45 degrees the other way, you could make diamond lattice work, which could either be woven of tied into each other where they cross. If you are planning on doing this this year you need to get a move on as we are getting towards the end of the dormant season, assuming you are somewhere in the uk. Could you add your location to your profile to save guess work? There are quite a few online suppliers, I reckon you'd need no more than about 20 whips, planted about a foot apart. Or do you know anyone with a willow garden feature you could help yourself to? Lots of schools round here have willow domes, mine included. They might be glad of a volunteer to prune it!

[Nicos]

We have two hundred meters of established hazel hedge which we cut back and use for edging/ starter wood/garden decorations but find it becomes very fragile after a couples years once cut.
After a year the new stems are only about 1 cm thick. It'd take years for hazel to get thick enough to keep a dog in!

Willow is much faster growing but initially can easily be parted to get through.

In your place I'd be tempted to stick in a row of gooseberry bushes...3 or 4 would do the trick!

[Jakejakeyjakejake]

Yes I just removed brambles because of the neighbours complaining that's now how the pooches escaped so he moan about yet more bushes like the idea if hazel or willow more due to the use of it once a year for making stuff from it I would happily put up a fence then coppice that eventually I could make into some dance to replace the crappy chicken wire one I'll no doubt. End up putting there before the neighbour through a fit!!!!!


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[lottie dolly]

You might get the moaner,moaning with a willow hedge,as it will want clipping on his side,whose responsibility is it for that boundary,maybe you could put a bit of chicken wire up,then plant some gooseberries,
just read re the wire,find some old doors,