On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:33:51 +0000, Victoria Clare
wrote:

I'm looking at planting up a fairly large area (say 5m x 12m) with minimum
care shrubs.

I quite fancy planting some Elaeagnus x ebbingei, having read the ecstatic
writeup at http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/elaeagns.html, but how invasive
is it?

Mine must be about ten years old and is about ten feet high. Would be
higher but I top it from time to time. I had a second, which was blown
out of the ground (we're very exposed to full-force SW gales). It's a
very well behaved shrub IME, with no tendency to invade anything. I
was quite surprised to see the question as it suggests someone has had
a different experience.




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Chris

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