Since February I have been nature journaling with a local environmental group Oldhamstocks For Nature. We became aware of one hedge that is scheduled for removal by developers in our area. We thought it important to survey the hedge to at least record what will be lost, but obviously its rooted into our hearts and I created a poem from the experience.  Really the plight of this hedge is mirrored by so many hedges across the British isles but we feel we must speak up.

The first idea for the poem came from what three words used to record our location, the words just appealed to my creative nature. Initially I had the concept for writing the poem to literally stretch over 200m of paper, but I soon wound myself up in the logistics of getting it printed. So, the poem appears in pamphlet form but shaped in a narrow band to reflect the shape of a hedge with gaps just as the hedge has and images related to the species found. Some of the images were created using the plants themselves either to print with or as colour.