left to grow until layed (???)

0 Hi!02br
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00Context: an article in an academic journal. The authors are both native speakers from the UK. 02br
00The sentences within quotation marks were transcribed during the meetings (focus groups). 01blockquote

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10The focus groups responses illuminate such perceptions: 12br
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11i10"Variety is the essence, from a varied seashore, right up to different kinds of farming, into coal mining fringes."12i12br
10"11i10A mix of landscape, hedges; some managed and trimmed, 11b10others left to grow until layed12b10. Different woodland features and a bit of bracken ... its got the balance of managed and wilder areas12i10."12br
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10I understand there are some general problems with transcriptions (for instance, "01i00its got02i00" should have been "01i00it's02i00 got", right? This mistake was made three times in the article), but I cannot understand what that 01i00"layed" 02i00should have been and what the speaker meant. Did s/he refer to landscape or hedges? 02br
00I guess it (01i00"layed") 02i00 refers to hedges -- not trimmed, but left to grow (without any management, in a sort of natural way) ... until what?02br
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00Thanks!0-