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Rosa rugosa makes a great but slightly scruffy hedge. I thas the
advantage of pretty flowers throughout the summer and huge hips
throughout the winter.

Oo-er, Missus!

Birds feed on the hips in late winter. Fast
growing and available as hedging plants from

Fuchsia is a beautiful hedging plant but I have been unable to find it
in the nurseries and had to grow mine from cuttings. Slow but they
readily root from non-flowering tips.

However, not all of them are hardy.

Hawthorn is perhaps one of the finest of hedging plants if you want to
keep children out! Fast growing and responds well to clipping and
shaping. Widely available.

When I was a child I used to nest under a hawthorn tree/bush/w.h.y?
Later, while a teenage brat, I made two mallets from an horizontal
branch of hawthorn, where the scions left it to climb vertically. I
still have and use them - more than fifty years later.

Ribes (flowering currant) grows like a weed in my garden. Totally
hardy but not as fast growing as some. Probably best grown from
cuttings.

Also an early-flowering shrub which will attract bees to the garden. I
grow some for just this reason, as the currants aren't worth a searches
for publishable simile tinker's cuss. /searches

Finally, Snowberry. This is a vigorous hedging plant that will form a
free standing bush several feet in height and width if left to its own
devices. Has small flowers in summer followed by white berries
throughout the winter. Birds feed on the berries in hard times. Very
easily grown from cuttings but I don't know how readily available from
nurseries etc.

Readily available from my garden...

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Rusty
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