AOL: Attract Birds To Your Coastal Garden With A Fruit-Bearing Shrub That Provides Privacy Attract Birds To Your Coastal Garden With A Fruit-Bearing Shrub That Provides Privacy House Digest on MSN: The luscious hedge that keeps peeping eyes out while growing delicious fruit If you don't want strangers peering through your windows, you can give them an eyeful of tropical shrubs whose sweet fruits can be used to make jam and jelly. The luscious hedge that keeps peeping eyes out while growing delicious fruit A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced (3 feet or closer) shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. A hedgerow can be thought of as a strip of densely planted trees, shrubs and other plants forming a border.

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You could think of a hedgerow as a living fence, though a hedgerow should be much wider than a typical fence. Hedgerows provide undisturbed refuge for species of all kinds, creating wildlife corridors, travel lanes or habitat islands. Hedgerows help protect wildlife from predators and provide sheltered access to riparian zones or other water sources.