"harry" wrote in message
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On 18 Sep, 18:24, mountain_spring mountain_spring.
wrote:
Hello,
On my property I have plenty of hornbeam and dogwood transplants as well
as some oak, dog rose and some other native plants.

I would like to plant a 50 meters long hedge and I would like it to be
about 1.5-2 meters high in 2-4 years.

I would like it to be informal, natural looking hedge that I would trim
once or mostly twice per year.

Would it work if I mix hornbeam with dogwood and other plants, or should
I use hornbeam only since I have it most?
Should I plant in one or two rows, and how many plants per meter?

Thanks a lot,
Mountain

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mountain_spring

Natural hedges are one of the latest crazes with the planners these
days.
You need a double row @ 450mm centres. Hawthorn, holly, hazel,
elderbery etc. It needs leaving 'til its about five or six feet high
& then "laying" by bending the stems over horizontal. They might need
a nick to make tem stay down. This gives a dense hedge that is more
security proof than barbed wire.
You don't want dogwood, not native & runs amok with suckers.

Dogwood is native, and is OK if left alone, but if you start cutting it, it
suckers very badly and can take over whole hillsides - one big 'scrub
bashing' mistake, was cutting it down rather than winching it out.

"Another earlier name of the dogwood in English is the whipple-tree.
Geoffrey Chaucer uses the word whippletree in The Canterbury Tales ("The
Knight's Tale", verse 2065) to refer to the dogwood"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogwood

When you have an internet connection why can you not check your most basic
facts?

S