wildlife fruiting hedge – John Sullivan Resource Centre Biodiversity Garden

After a giant break in the middle of the current horticulture module, the class started this module in October 2020, and we only got back into the garden in April 2021!! we have now completed the module and the class has concluded for now. We achieved two really solid projects as part of the module, we put in an edible wildlife hedge in the biodiversity garden and a pollinator friendly herbaceous border in the butterfly garden. The wildlife fruiting hedge is at the bottom boundary of the biodiversity garden, boundarying onto the soft fruit area. We planted a range of plants from cobnut to blackthorn, to crab apple, bird cherry, Juneberry, autumn olive and black chokecherry, a mixture of native and non-native but all goof for wildlife and pollinators! In the original butterfly garden which was one of the first areas to be developed in the IWA Clane garden, we did a revamp on the beds that has gotten a bit overgrown, again we planted with a variety of plants that favour our native pollinators, the bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other pollinators!

The Wildlife Fruiting Hedge