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Rusty Hinge 2 writes
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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.
And even the hardy ones die back to ground level in the eastern half of
the country
Not all of them - there are some HUGE fuchsia bushes in the
neighbourhood, and we do get frosts here in the eastern part of the
country.
Outside my back door a while back, I had a water butt, an iron barrel
four feet in diameter, and it froze solid one winter. Also that winter,
the temperature dropped to -20ºC one night, and there was ice forming
from my breath on the inside of the walls of the house, despite two
Aladdin paraffin lamps going full blast, along with an Aladdin heater
with a 2"-wick.
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.
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.
Finally, Snowberry. This is a vigorous hedging plant
.... In other words, needs trimming back fortnightly. It also suckers
vigorously and tries to take over the entire garden
But is easy to grab hold of and rip out...
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Rusty
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