Making a beautiful woven hazel retaining wall and then replacing with stone!

In this video you see Bunny and Adam, making a woven hazel retaining wall for Bunny’s vegetable garden.
Bunny plants up a mini herb garden, and creates divisions between the herbs with a homemade low serpentine woven willow fence. This was done over 20 years ago, and now Bunny removes it (having patched it up a few times over the years). Dave builds her a new stone retaining wall, using left over stone and beautiful coping stones from Ebay .
Watching this back Bunny is embarrassed about the state of her vegetable beds, in the original recording. She would like me to flag up that she was commuting to Eniwa,Japan, as she was working on a large job (ecorinvillage.com), as well as recording 12 programmes for Carlton tv, on top of her usual jobs, plus my brother and I were teenagers when this was filmed, so it was really busy time. So unfortunately the vegetables got very neglected as you will see.
#vegetablegardens #cotswoldstone

[@merylwilliams2268]

Lovely to see a young Adam Frost. Great team work 💚💚

[@elisaangel9789]

Both walls are beautiful. I suppose the stone wall will last longer, but the hazel had a great run.

[@kristinastoltzfus6032]

The walls are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. I am enjoying the old videos and then the updates. It is so inspiring!

[@fennecfox8623]

It’s Adam Frost, from Gardener’s World! Another great video :)

[@BigBlueRabbit]

Is it really? I thought he had all the same mannerisms and voice.

[@blakehahn-atlantaga8510]

Loved this Bunny! I have always wanted to make a woven wall but did not know how! Thank you!

[@truthbetold2611]

I love the woven wall. I have two beautiful willow baskets that for four years have served to camouflage the concrete wall beneath my front porch. They're disintegrating and getting infested with springtails when it was rainy and wet in the summer. Still, looking back, I don't regret having had the beautiful texture and color in my garden.

[@ginamansfield4376]

Thank you for showing us how to build the Woven planters. I’ve often wondered how you made them. They are/were lovely. I also liked how you wove the Willow thru the Hazel planters creating a special place for your herbs. How creative! Thank you again for the lesson!

[@coolbananaboy5075]

That wall looks wonderful! I love your designs and how you can visualize everything. You're amazing.

[@lorrainel2314]

Loved the hazel wall and the gorgeous herbs all planted up. The stone wall is lovely too. Stunningly beautiful garden 🪴

[@hollyssimplelife1634]

I wish I could have seen how the wall was built!

[@karenwestby-gibson758]

Bunny, there is a guy in northern USA who has created a new sunflower. His name is Sunflower Steve. You might be interested in his new variety. Happy Gardening.

[@reb4898]

Thank you for the info…

[@bunnyguinness]

Will check it out thanks! 🐇

[@margueriteocarroll9532]

I love the hazel fence, and so easy to do. Thanks for sharing both 💚💚

[@annashiegl]

Looks gorgeous. I love those pots on the wall too, what do you have grown in them? Looking for ideas and inspiration 😊😊

[@beckyscheller9358]

Like them both but really love the twig wall

[@jimsgarden712]

This is no ordinary lavender

[@bunnyguinness]

No you are right, I think it was Lavander dentists 🐇

[@bunnyguinness]

Sorry predictable text should say dentata!

[@vivaciousgal8708]

WHEN can we have a tour of th e inside of your beautiful home???

[@bunnyguinness]

We have done one video ‘A garden for my Family and other animals’ but we are going to put up another one in a month or so time - hopefully! 🐇

[@user-fd3wl1pr7s]

So the railway ties - can be used for raised gardens without harm to the plants? and what about for something for the cattle to walk on, or no because they may lay down on it?

[@leslieoscar]

pressure treated with preservatives ? won’t that affect the health of the plants ?

[@bunnyguinness]

No it just means the wood is in a vacuum when they put the preservative in so the chemicals penetrate further into the timber so make the timber have a longer lifespan. A lot of softwood is treated this way. It is harmless to plants though. 🐇

[@JM-so2ew]

Would you explain why you used willow within the bed for weaving instead of hazel?

[@bunnyguinness]

Well we wanted to show both and willow is often much thinner and more pliable so if you want a neater, closer woven fence it is better for this. Hope this helps 🐇

[@user-fd3wl1pr7s]

And could i use the railway ties as a haha?

[@bunnyguinness]

Yes you could! Bob Geldof has one made of sleepers and we have done that on a couple of jobs 🐇

[@user-fd3wl1pr7s]

Thank you@@bunnyguinness