Along an Irish Hedgerow
Hedgerows are everywhere across Ireland's rural landscape. These managed tangles of shrubs, briars, trees, and wildflowers enclose pastures and crop fields, provide wind breaks to animals and plants, delineate property lines, add soft guard rails to the narrow Irish roads, prevent soil erosion, and give shelter and food to birds, insects, and small animals, sustaining the rural countryside’s biodiversity. Hedgerows have characterized Ireland's landscape for hundreds of years, and been the subject of folklore, art, and literature.
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