echinosum writes


I know it's boring, but I would recommend laurel (ie evergreen prunus
spp) to provide easy rapid screening without leyland problems. The
reason it is better than leyland is that if you let it grow too much
you can cut it back hard as you like and it will come back (unlike
leyland where if you cut back to the brown it never comes green again).
Also you can get flowering forms.

Does this imply that there are non-flowering forms? I'd always assumed
that the reason you don't get flowers on a laurel hedge is that you keep
cutting it back.
--
Kay