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Paul Luton wrote:

Pyracantha planted round the shed can be pruned back against it and will
have flowers in the spring and berries followed by blackbirds in the
winter. Honeysuckle will climb through.

The question is whether you will be able to. Anna Pavord was writing
nonsense in the Independent, and claiming that Pyracantha doesn't
have vicious thorns. Well, I got rid of mine because I wasn't
prepared to put up with the biannual injury - and I don't worry
about minor cuts etc.

Go for clematis, honeysuckle etc. Annuals are good, too.

Before you attach anything I want to warn you. If the shed is wood, you
will need to be able to get to the wood to treat with timber treatment every
couple of years

Our timber shed has been untreated for 15 years apart from refelting the
roof and is still sound.

You are lucky. Mine is much older, but has been well creosoted
once every decade or so.

Pyracantha next to it is likely to make any form of timber treatment
or refelting a foul job.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.