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It also promises to spend £3bn from the EU's Common Agricultural Policy to clean up lakes and rivers and protect hedges and stonewalls.
It provides a dramatic entrance to the gardens spread out below Two hundred clipped hollies and yews, some towering to well over 40ft, frame views and help give the garden its definitive structure The parterre features several miles of clipped box hedges containing roses and bedding plants.
When those hedges expire at the end of the year, he says, it will be like abruptly removing a cushion.
She has engaged a 76-year-old Belgian designer, Jacques Wirtz, and his two sons, Peter and Martin, to create a £14m ($20m) showpiece, with tunnels of hedges and cascades of water, that she immodestly dubs "Britain's answer to the 17th-century splendour of Versailles".
To compensate, they buy risky assets, like stocks, that are poor hedges for their liabilities.
Instead, he will use water for effect, or avenues of pleached hornbeams and clipped yew hedges, the better to lead and surprise the garden explorer.
Later, the Wirtzs' renovation of the gardens of the Elysée palace and the Carrousel of the Tuileries in Paris, with its sunburst pattern of radiating yew hedges, won them international acclaim.
IN MOST countries, the word "suburb" evokes clipped hedges, wide driveways and tranquillity.
But abundant shale gas in the United States has rendered hedges against mild weather less important.Energy companies are still the biggest users of these trades and contracts based on temperatures continue to be the most popular form of weather derivative.
Individual properties and neighbourhoods differ, which makes it hard to construct accurate hedges.
