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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:49:33 +0000, Eloise
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Hello, I'm Eloise, new to the group, hi to everyone.

The old fence that was attached to my five foot boundary wall has
finally fallen down. It gave us total privacy from our neighbours but
cannot be replaced with a new fence due to council restrictions on
height.

So, we need a fast growing evergreen that has no flowers. It needs to
grow to be a dense hedge and only needs to be 5 1/2 - 6ft tall at the
very most.

My husband and I are more than happy to buy plants that are already four
feet (120-150cms) tall.

I do not want to plant Leylandii, we have always got on very well with
our neighbours and want no disagreements. Life is too short to bicker.

We live in Arshire but sand and sea/salt air are not a problem: we have
the most beautuful soil.

The shrubs/hedge would get sunlight from 8am all day long till 6ish in
summer and be in a sheltered area.

May I stress again, no flowering/berry shrubs.

Thank you to everyone who might answer for your time and experience. I
hope I have given enough information.

Kind Regards, Eloise

Would you consider a hedge grown from Escallonia? I have about 25
yards of a mature hedge of this shrub that is usually pruned back in
my case to stay around 8 feet high. It is used to give good privacy to
screen off a public area lying beyond this border hedge around part of
our home back garden in Dundee. It is evergreen and has a slightly
fragrant resin on the leaves. Although most of the plant has dense
leaves, it does produce some smallish flowers in the summer that in my
experience do not fall to leave any significant ground debris. It does
not produce berries. Is it absolutely crucial that you have no flowers
at all? The link below gives an example of what is available and the
properties of the plants. I am not in any way endorsing any particular
merchant and I found this as an example simply by googling with
"escallonia hedge" as the key words.

http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/Escal...Hedging-Plants

Apologies if this is not helpful.

Best wishes

Geoff

Lucky you, I used to really like this for coastal hedging but there is some
sort of nasty leaf blight disease doing the rounds down here and they just
look an unsightly mess the whole time.

Do agree about that lovely resin smell, and its certainly quick, but the
flowers may not be wanted in this particular case


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