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Hedge Replacement
A good friend of mine has a long, wide row of hedges in his back yard. They
are about 8.5 to 9 feet tall. (Yes, they are a pain to trim.) In the front yard there is one gaping top section cut out by storm, injury or whatever? This section is about 3 feet in length at most. I asked him if he ever thought of removing the hedges in that area and replanting a fuller ones. He said he'd like to but that it would take years for replacement hedges to grow to that height and fill in. Is he on target here or is a there a work around to this problem? |
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Hedge Replacement
dont know where you are located zonewise, but both forsythia and
especially spirea, bridal wreath makes spectacular hedges that dont need to be trimmed, just pruned a bit after blooming. these are my dwarf spireas http://weloveteaching.com/landscape/spirea/spirea.html they were too big and had to be removed unfortunately. Ingrid On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:21:41 GMT, "Charlie S." wrote: A good friend of mine has a long, wide row of hedges in his back yard. They are about 8.5 to 9 feet tall. (Yes, they are a pain to trim.) In the front yard there is one gaping top section cut out by storm, injury or whatever? This section is about 3 feet in length at most. I asked him if he ever thought of removing the hedges in that area and replanting a fuller ones. He said he'd like to but that it would take years for replacement hedges to grow to that height and fill in. Is he on target here or is a there a work around to this problem? |
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Hedge Replacement
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dont know where you are located zonewise, but both forsythia and especially spirea, bridal wreath makes spectacular hedges that dont need to be trimmed, just pruned a bit after blooming. these are my dwarf spireas http://weloveteaching.com/landscape/spirea/spirea.html they were too big and had to be removed unfortunately. Nicely planted but you need more yard. |
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Some bamboos are good for hedges, try Semiarundinaria fatuosa or is that too tall @ 20ft?
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Hedge Replacement
dont know where you are located zonewise, but both forsythia and especially spirea, bridal wreath makes spectacular hedges that dont need to be trimmed, just pruned a bit after blooming. these are my dwarf spireas http://weloveteaching.com/landscape/spirea/spirea.html they were too big and had to be removed unfortunately. Ingrid Thanks for the photos. Don't believe forsythia is the species he has. We live in New England. These hedges have somewhat oval shaped, small leaves that run in pairs off the branches. The leaves have one central vein in the middle. I put a link to what they might look like. I can't see the leaves on these hedges. So, I'm not certain. http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/g...ote-hedges.jpg On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:21:41 GMT, "Charlie S." wrote: A good friend of mine has a long, wide row of hedges in his back yard. They are about 8.5 to 9 feet tall. (Yes, they are a pain to trim.) In the front yard there is one gaping top section cut out by storm, injury or whatever? This section is about 3 feet in length at most. I asked him if he ever thought of removing the hedges in that area and replanting a fuller ones. He said he'd like to but that it would take years for replacement hedges to grow to that height and fill in. Is he on target here or is a there a work around to this problem? |
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Hedge Replacement
On Jul 13, 9:09?am, "Charlie S." wrote:
Thanks for the photos. Don't believe forsythia is the species he has. We live in New England. These hedges have somewhat oval shaped, small leaves that run in pairs off the branches. The leaves have one central vein in the middle. I put a link to what they might look like. I can't see the leaves on these hedges. So, I'm not certain. http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/g...ote-hedges.jpg Those a most likely a common privet hedge: http://tinyurl.com/32xpvt http://www.naturehills.com/new/produ...ur+North+River |
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Hedge Replacement
"Sheldon" wrote in message ups.com... On Jul 13, 9:09?am, "Charlie S." wrote: Thanks for the photos. Don't believe forsythia is the species he has. We live in New England. These hedges have somewhat oval shaped, small leaves that run in pairs off the branches. The leaves have one central vein in the middle. I put a link to what they might look like. I can't see the leaves on these hedges. So, I'm not certain. http://www.armin-grewe.com/holiday/g...ote-hedges.jpg Those a most likely a common privet hedge: http://tinyurl.com/32xpvt http://www.naturehills.com/new/produ...ur+North+River Thanks! That's the hedge I'm talking about. Guess there is nothing he can do about the gap except remove the old hedge and plant young, new ones. |
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