Are you hedging your bets in the gospel? This picture does not even come close to the beauty of the countryside and the use of "hedges" here in England. A hedge is a fence or boundary formed by closely grown bushes or shrubs trained to form a barrier or to mark boundary of an area. Hedges are used to separate a road from adjoining fields. They do serve another purpose as windbreaks to improve conditions for an adjacent crop. A Hedgerow is when trees are also incorporated. When we walk around the village of Feltwell, we see so many homes that use hedges to separate and beautify their properties. I am amazed how big these hedges can grow and how well maintained most of them are. Some grow so high and completely block out the view of the yard--- it is their "fences" that we in the US seem to use so much. It does make a pretty addition to the landscape. Did you know that the UK alone has approx. 390,000 km of hedges and could span the circumference of