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Advise on wind tolerant plants please
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I have a garden which is now one year old, the north side of the rear garden is bounded by a 6 foot high brick wall shaped like a hockey stick i.e. with a curve. This and the gap between the house and the start of the wall creates a wind tunnel effect which channels the west/north west winds acrosss the top half of the garden. Silly me planted Chamaecyparis which are all now nicely brown, the plants at the other end (south) of the garden don't suffer this wind and are quite happy and growing at a good rate. Can anyone please suggest any wind tolerant plants for this part of the garden, it would be nicce to look out of the kitchen window at a nice shrubbery rather than a bare lawn and brick wall. TIA Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... Hi I have a garden which is now one year old, the north side of the rear garden is bounded by a 6 foot high brick wall shaped like a hockey stick i.e. with a curve. This and the gap between the house and the start of the wall creates a wind tunnel effect which channels the west/north west winds acrosss the top half of the garden. Silly me planted Chamaecyparis which are all now nicely brown, the plants at the other end (south) of the garden don't suffer this wind and are quite happy and growing at a good rate. Can anyone please suggest any wind tolerant plants for this part of the garden, it would be nicce to look out of the kitchen window at a nice shrubbery rather than a bare lawn and brick wall. TIA Paul Plug the gap first maybe ? :~) The BBC has a list of wind tolerant plants: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/htbg/module1/wind1.shtml This might be of interest too: http://www.intersites.co.uk/2808/ Jenny |
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In article , Paul writes: | | Can anyone please suggest any wind tolerant plants for this part of | the garden, it would be nicce to look out of the kitchen window at a | nice shrubbery rather than a bare lawn and brick wall. But where are you posting from? It makes a hell of a difference if the winds are warm, wet and salt-laden or dry and cold. All right, we don't get really dry or really cold, but the principle applies. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 16:54:47 +0200, "JennyC"
wrote: "Paul" wrote in message .. . Hi I have a garden which is now one year old, the north side of the rear garden is bounded by a 6 foot high brick wall shaped like a hockey stick i.e. with a curve. This and the gap between the house and the start of the wall creates a wind tunnel effect which channels the west/north west winds acrosss the top half of the garden. Silly me planted Chamaecyparis which are all now nicely brown, the plants at the other end (south) of the garden don't suffer this wind and are quite happy and growing at a good rate. Can anyone please suggest any wind tolerant plants for this part of the garden, it would be nicce to look out of the kitchen window at a nice shrubbery rather than a bare lawn and brick wall. TIA Paul Plug the gap first maybe ? :~) The BBC has a list of wind tolerant plants: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/htbg/module1/wind1.shtml This might be of interest too: http://www.intersites.co.uk/2808/ Jenny Thanks for the suggestions, can't really plug the gap though :-( |
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In article , Paul writes: | | South west, warm , wet and salt-laden, VERY WINDY, in the | aforementioned part of the garden that is. Wind, per se, causes damage only physically, by breaking branches, shredding leaves and rocking the plant breaking its roots. Dry winds can kill by desiccation and cold ones by 'wind chill' - both a minor problem with me, but not you. The salt is likely to be the problem. Look for plants that are both salt- and wind-resistant, and look up what was planted at Inverewe for windbreaks. There are books on that garden. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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In article , Paul writes: | | Thanks for the info, my guess from the above is that desiccation and | wind chill are probably the cause as plants in the south of garden and | the front garden are both doing fine. My runner beans are 2ft high :-) As I told you, no, they aren't. If either of those factors were severe enough to damage Chamaecyparis badly in a wind tunnel, your runner beans would be dead, Dead, DEAD even in still air. As I said, neither fact is a significant issue in the south-west, though both are minor (and ONLY minor) ones in Cambridge - and here is a LOT colder and drier than it is with you. My garden got down to -10 Celcius one night last winter - even with a howling gale, Chamaecyparis isn't going to be damaged by above-zero temperatures. Dammit, C. lawsonii grows in Blair Atholl! And it is even more implausible that it was damaged by a drying wind in the south-west, unless it was unable to take up water through its roots, due to deeply frozen soil, a near absence of water in the soil (either of which is immediately fatal to runners) or severe root damage. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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