OldScrawn wrote:
My horsey newsgroup suggested this cross-post.

There are a few gaps / weak points in one of our hedges. It's a
mixture of allsorts; ash, alder, sycmore, thorny things. What can
we
plant that might grow reasonably quickly and not get eaten by
horses?
On limestone, fairly exposed, hilltop in S Gloucestershire. (I
already have a list of things that are toxic to horses, to filter
against)

It's really only hawthorn, I'd say. Blackthorn's a swine to work
with, and sends out suckers. They'll have a nibble, but it won't do
any harm to the horses. If the hedge itself is the stock barrier,
you'll need to put in some temporary bits of fence while the plants
bulk up, though. It sounds as though the whole hedge wants doing,
unless it's already backed up by a wire fence all the way along:
sycamore etc aren't particularly good for making stock-proof
barriers.

Mike.