"Laura Corin" wrote


I'm glad to have found this site - I certainly could do with some
advice. We moved to Fife about three years ago and bought a house. It
has more garden than we would have chosen, but we needed to buy fast. I
haven't gardened much in the past, but I watched my mother garden when I
was small.

The garden is about three acres. One acre around the house, which has
an area fenced against rabbits; one acre of field/wildflowers, with
newly-planted fruit trees; one acre of sycamore windbreak which we have
thinned and replanted with native species. We are on the top of small
hill with a south-west oriented valley on one side and the North Sea
five miles to the east on the other, so the garden is pretty exposed.
We have some leylandii windbreak planting to the south west of the
rabbit-fenced area, but are growing a deciduous windbreak to replace it
in a few years.

This summer's plans: husband is felling another windbreak so that we can
replant with something more attractive. Meanwhile I'm planning the new
windbreak planting, admiring a new bed I just planted, and dreaming
about a willow garden beyond the fruit trees in a hollow.


Welcome to this Newsgroup (please Google it).
I envy you your space but not your position, Leylandii do not make good
windbreaks in exposed positions, I've seen one planted in north Cornwall
that has taken such a battering it had to be removed before it started to do
it's job. Best to ask at a local Forestry Supplier or tree nursery which
trees are suitable for your position.
Some sites I found....

http://www.gcnursery.co.uk/windbreak.html (but not all suggested will be
suitable for you)

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/...e.aspx?pid=624


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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK