I'm finding this A4 format handbook thorough, clear, and helpful. As a complete newcomer to hedge-laying, I attended a very good local practical training day 6 weeks ago, and then bought this book to follow it up. Now I know what I am doing (!) and am happily getting on with laying hedges myself, which is fun, satisfying - and free! To illustrate the text, there are line drawings which help you to understand what is required and how different parts of the UK do things (some photos might perhaps have helped further). There's no substitute for practical instruction, but this is just what you need to follow it up. Thanks, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, for a great handbook.