Hawthorn Hedge

It is your own choice really. Pruning can thicken up a hedge nicely.
Layering a hedge means cutting each stem partly through and bending it down to a horizontal position. They are often kept in place by weaving them round thin fence posts. If you have never done it before, it is probably not something to be undertaken lightly. To be honest it is dratted hard work and these days is more used to rejuvenate a hedge than to thicken up a young one.

 

Just cut it, once in mid may and once in late September. Any gaps root cuttings in.

To lay a hedge it basicly needs to be unncut for atleast four yeras in order to get suficent growth to bend.

layings more suited to nature gardens/small agrcultural hedges.

 

I understood that a large part of laying was to lay stems horizontally to make a hedge cattle proof. If you aren't tring to keep cattle in I wouldn't have thought it was neccessary to cut and lay.

 

It looks good though.