"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 12/3/07 10:25, in article
, "Sue"
wrote:


"Janet Tweedy" wrote
I have a large flower bed that goes right across the garden apart from
two gaps for paths and a middle pergola/walkway. Behind is the
vegetable raised bed area and i's like to screen but not block the view
so that you can see through and not foreshorten the garden

Could I back this bed with, and train Chaenemoles in cordon formation
or would I be better to get apple cordons ? I did think of bushes or
shrubs but they would be difficult to keep "flat" .

Chanomeles would look pretty in flower and have the fruit as well as the
blossom, but it might be almost as bad to try and keep flat. I've got
Geisha
Girl on a wall and it does tend to send out a lot of bottom suckers.

The cordons seem like a lovely idea. You could use pear as well; I've
seen a pear cordon 'hedge' that made a charming semi-open screen.

I like the chaenomeles idea too, though I've never seen in grown that way.
The other possibility would be doing something with willow withies,
perhaps?
Those can be 'woven' into pretty well anything you want and cut back once
or
twice a year to stop the shape being lost.

--
Sacha
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South Devon
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Sorry to jump in off topic, did you get my email Sacha? I was responding to
a phone message you left, but I have not been able to find you in!
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
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Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea