Wilder Horsham District on Instagram: "We're not cutting this hedge down - we're pleaching! Our volunteers helped @NationalTrust to restore this hedge in Washington, West Sussex. Hedgelaying is an ancient craft that thickens up field boundaries, creating warm, protective hidey-holes for nesting birds and all sorts of bugs and beetles. Cutting through most of the tree stem so it will lay to the side (a technique called 'pleaching') looks like butchery but in the coming years, this wound is exactl