Pacific Northwest Gardening: Taming the wild garden, 1 by Laurie1

Laurie1 wrote:
This is a photo of a couple of the trees on the right side. These were once a laid hedge - I am not sure this is done in the US - but over the past 100 or so years, possibly more they have not been maintained as hedges, and revert to growing as trees, but you can still see where they were cut and folded. In East Sussex, we refer to these areas as a shaw. They make a lovely backdrop, and very deep cool shade on hot days. The size of the trees does make it quite dry (although still damp) shade.