Hedge
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A hedge or hedgerow is a line of shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges that are used to
A typical clipped European beech hedge in the Eifel, Germany
A round hedge of creeping groundsel
A typical old Scottish march dyke, but without boundary trees
Hedgerows between fields in North Dakota
Bocage
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Bocage is a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture characteristic of parts of northern France, southern England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, northern Spain and northern Germany, in regions wher
Hedge
…sufficient age to incorporate larger trees, are known as hedgerows. Often they serve as windbreaks to improve conditions for the adjacent crops, as in bocage country. When clipped and maintained, hedges are also a simple form of topiary. Hedges and Hedgerows are usually no wider than about three feet (one…
Bocage near Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Chelsea porcelain factory candle-holder with bocage background, c. 1765
Bocage country on the Cotentin Peninsula, Lower Normandy
English bocage (Edale valley, Peak District)