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K writes:
| Rusty Hinge 2 writes
| The message
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| from Compo in Caithness contains these words:
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| 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.
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| However, not all of them are hardy.
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| And even the hardy ones die back to ground level in the eastern half of
| the country

I don't think that any are reliably hardy even here, if we ever have
the sort of winter we used to get up to a decade ago.

| 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.
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| But the clippings are a chore to collect, and a meance if not collected.
| The thorns seem to get tougher and stronger as they dry out.

That is true for most plants. Hawthorn isn't really very thorny,
as such plants go, but is prickly enough that I will avoid walking
on it in bare feet.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.