Hedgerows are narrow bands of vegetation like the ones found between farm fields. Where feasible, try to re-create components found in natural habitats. For instance, a woodland includes small herbaceous plants, small shrubs, large shrubs, small trees and large trees as well as decaying logs, dead brush and leaf litter. Incorporate as many of these features as possible into a woodland habitat project. Arrange your native plants in aggregate groups or groves rather than individual plants surrounded by mowed lawn.
Aggregate plantings resemble the natural plant communities that wildlife use as habitat.
By not mowing between plants, other plants will colonize your planting, adding to the habitat diversity. Remove any invasive exotic plants. These groups overlap and are interspersed with other species. Attempt to simulate the random spacing that occurs in natural plant communities. Shrubs and small trees 5' to 8' apart.