Bonfire resistant hedge
 

I wish to screen my garden bonfire area from view. My bonfires are quite
modest but I'd like to select plants resistant to the occasional flare
up or which would recover fairly well?

Thanks!

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

Bonfire resistant hedge
 

In article , (Steve Harris) writes:
| I wish to screen my garden bonfire area from view. My bonfires are quite
| modest but I'd like to select plants resistant to the occasional flare
| up or which would recover fairly well?

Most of the more vigorous and tougher hedge plants should have
little trouble, but don't go for anything sensitive. Privet is
as good as anything for that.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Bonfire resistant hedge
 

Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article , (Steve Harris) writes:
| I wish to screen my garden bonfire area from view. My bonfires are quite
| modest but I'd like to select plants resistant to the occasional flare
| up or which would recover fairly well?

Most of the more vigorous and tougher hedge plants should have
little trouble, but don't go for anything sensitive. Privet is
as good as anything for that.

Or anything that will burn well even when it is still alive. My vote is for privet too.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Bonfire resistant hedge
 

Privet or Laurel
Definitely not Conifers ,.........the dead centre sections would go up like
an inferno

"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
(Steve Harris) writes:
| I wish to screen my garden bonfire area from view. My bonfires are
quite
| modest but I'd like to select plants resistant to the occasional
flare
| up or which would recover fairly well?

Most of the more vigorous and tougher hedge plants should have
little trouble, but don't go for anything sensitive. Privet is
as good as anything for that.

Or anything that will burn well even when it is still alive. My vote is
for privet too.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Bonfire resistant hedge
 

bnd777 wrote in message ...
Privet or Laurel
Definitely not Conifers ,.........the dead centre sections would go up
like
an inferno

Yes, my privet has survived a few attacks from bonfires, some of the
branch dies but it soon recovers.

Mike
www.british-naturism.org.uk

Bonfire resistant hedge
 

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:43:27 +0000 (UTC), "bnd777"
wrote:

Privet or Laurel
Definitely not Conifers ,.........the dead centre sections would go up like
an inferno

Heh heh. At my "little" school they had hedging which somehow got
linked to the name macracarpa ..... is there such a plant? Resinous
and conifery and, yep quite extensive tinder dry patches.

It didn't need a bonfire - just one wicked boy with a match!

Huss



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Bonfire resistant hedge
 

On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 01:22:22 +0100, Hussein M.
wrote:
Heh heh. At my "little" school they had hedging which somehow got
linked to the name macracarpa ..... is there such a plant? Resinous
and conifery and, yep quite extensive tinder dry patches.

It didn't need a bonfire - just one wicked boy with a match!

Cupressus macrocarpa? It's one of the parents of Leylandii, so some
would no doubt think that justice;-)

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