greenecology - contracting services

Hedge laying is the ideal way to rejuvenate neglected hedges, also improving their value for wildlife. There are many different styles, the traditional one locally being the Devon style, where the hedge is laid flat on its supporting bank. We also do the Midland style, where the shrubs are laid at a 45 degree angle and tied in with ‘heatherings’ of hazel or willow. This is an excellent way of thickening a hedge without a bank, especially recently planted ones.

In addition to hedge laying, Green Ecology can undertake the creation of new hedges with or without turf or stoned-face banks. We also repair both turf and stone faced hedge banks.

Green Ecology can undertake all types of dry and mortar stone work, including retaining walls, stone facing and field walls. We work with a variety of local stone from either natural or dressed granite, ‘Tavistock’ stone, and Plymouth limestone to local plough stones for stone facing on new or restored buildings, field boundaries or walls and features in landscape garden designs.

Green ecology can provide practical management of sites including scrub control, meadow management, grass cutting and pruning of orchard trees as well as hedge work. In addition we can create wildlife features such as ponds and meadows and undertake tasks such as tree planting. Green Ecology can provide a complete service of designing, creating, managing and monitoring wildlife habitats. This could range from a small wildlife area in a private garden to a mitigation scheme for a development.

In addition to the design and implementation of mitigation strategies, our contracting arm can install exclusion fencing for reptiles and amphibians. We use high quality 3mm corrugated plastic that is durable and re-usable, providing excellent value for money. Green Ecology also carries out habitat manipulation works to help capture animals such as reptiles for translocation. Our team are experienced ecologists as well as qualified machinery users, meaning that the ecological supervision of works is often unnecessary.

Case studies: Bradley Court Reptile Translocation; A38 Haldon Hill Layby Wideninig