Printed from: https://conservationhandbooks.com/hedging/laying-welsh-and-south-western-hedges/crop-and-pleach/
‘Crops’, ‘croppers’, ‘poles’ or ‘standards’ are stems which are not cut and laid in the usual way, but which are instead cut off in an upright position where they emerge from the laid hedge. They act as living stakes, holding the pleachers in place. Crops are used to some extent throughout central Wales, and may...