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I have a large flower bed that goes right across the garden apart from
two gaps for paths and a middle pergola/walkway. Behind is the vegetable raised bed area and i's like to screen but not block the view so that you can see through and not foreshorten the garden Could I back this bed with, and train Chaenemoles in cordon formation or would I be better to get apple cordons ? I did think of bushes or shrubs but they would be difficult to keep "flat" . The bed's main colour scheme is deep red/pink and white, some blue but NO yellow (never get on with yellow) Should I consider other shrubs? It needs to be about 4 - 5 ft high and we are on the alkaline side with clay and a LOT of flint.Full sun and bed faces south, i.e. cordons would be on north side of it. I also thought of training clematis etc through these cordons so it doesn't have to bear a crop necessarily. Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote I have a large flower bed that goes right across the garden apart from two gaps for paths and a middle pergola/walkway. Behind is the vegetable raised bed area and i's like to screen but not block the view so that you can see through and not foreshorten the garden Could I back this bed with, and train Chaenemoles in cordon formation or would I be better to get apple cordons ? I did think of bushes or shrubs but they would be difficult to keep "flat" . Chanomeles would look pretty in flower and have the fruit as well as the blossom, but it might be almost as bad to try and keep flat. I've got Geisha Girl on a wall and it does tend to send out a lot of bottom suckers. The cordons seem like a lovely idea. You could use pear as well; I've seen a pear cordon 'hedge' that made a charming semi-open screen. -- Sue |
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On 12/3/07 10:25, in article
, "Sue" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote I have a large flower bed that goes right across the garden apart from two gaps for paths and a middle pergola/walkway. Behind is the vegetable raised bed area and i's like to screen but not block the view so that you can see through and not foreshorten the garden Could I back this bed with, and train Chaenemoles in cordon formation or would I be better to get apple cordons ? I did think of bushes or shrubs but they would be difficult to keep "flat" . Chanomeles would look pretty in flower and have the fruit as well as the blossom, but it might be almost as bad to try and keep flat. I've got Geisha Girl on a wall and it does tend to send out a lot of bottom suckers. The cordons seem like a lovely idea. You could use pear as well; I've seen a pear cordon 'hedge' that made a charming semi-open screen. I like the chaenomeles idea too, though I've never seen in grown that way. The other possibility would be doing something with willow withies, perhaps? Those can be 'woven' into pretty well anything you want and cut back once or twice a year to stop the shape being lost. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 12/3/07 10:25, in article , "Sue" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote I have a large flower bed that goes right across the garden apart from two gaps for paths and a middle pergola/walkway. Behind is the vegetable raised bed area and i's like to screen but not block the view so that you can see through and not foreshorten the garden Could I back this bed with, and train Chaenemoles in cordon formation or would I be better to get apple cordons ? I did think of bushes or shrubs but they would be difficult to keep "flat" . Chanomeles would look pretty in flower and have the fruit as well as the blossom, but it might be almost as bad to try and keep flat. I've got Geisha Girl on a wall and it does tend to send out a lot of bottom suckers. The cordons seem like a lovely idea. You could use pear as well; I've seen a pear cordon 'hedge' that made a charming semi-open screen. I like the chaenomeles idea too, though I've never seen in grown that way. The other possibility would be doing something with willow withies, perhaps? Those can be 'woven' into pretty well anything you want and cut back once or twice a year to stop the shape being lost. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) Sorry to jump in off topic, did you get my email Sacha? I was responding to a phone message you left, but I have not been able to find you in! -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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In article , Sacha
writes I like the chaenomeles idea too, though I've never seen in grown that way. The other possibility would be doing something with willow withies, perhaps? Those can be 'woven' into pretty well anything you want and cut back once or twice a year to stop the shape being lost. Oh yes, I fell for this idea two years ago and made two wigwams for the sweet peas on a day course under instruction from a friend who makes living hedges etc. Ha! The willows did a lot better than the sweet peas and it took me a good two hours to dig out the roots of the wigwams last autumn :) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On 12 Mar, 12:16, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Sacha writes I like the chaenomeles idea too, though I've never seen in grown that way. The other possibility would be doing something with willow withies, perhaps? Those can be 'woven' into pretty well anything you want and cut back once or twice a year to stop the shape being lost. Oh yes, I fell for this idea two years ago and made two wigwams for the sweet peas on a day course under instruction from a friend who makes living hedges etc. Ha! The willows did a lot better than the sweet peas and it took me a good two hours to dig out the roots of the wigwams last autumn :) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Instead of using willow, why not use one of the faster growing Cotoneaster varieties A few years ago I saw a Cotoneaster arch on a TV gardening programme, looked very good, so you would have flowers and then berries in the autumn David Hill Abacus Nurseries |
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On 12/3/07 12:16, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote: In article , Sacha writes I like the chaenomeles idea too, though I've never seen in grown that way. The other possibility would be doing something with willow withies, perhaps? Those can be 'woven' into pretty well anything you want and cut back once or twice a year to stop the shape being lost. Oh yes, I fell for this idea two years ago and made two wigwams for the sweet peas on a day course under instruction from a friend who makes living hedges etc. Ha! The willows did a lot better than the sweet peas and it took me a good two hours to dig out the roots of the wigwams last autumn :) Scratch the willows! ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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In article .com, Dave
Hill writes Instead of using willow, why not use one of the faster growing Cotoneaster varieties A few years ago I saw a Cotoneaster arch on a TV gardening programme, looked very good, so you would have flowers and then berries in the autumn David Hill Abacus Nurseries I've done a Pyracantha one at the beginning of my side pathway but at the back I need a fence structure because it has to back the 80 foot wide bed, IYSWIM -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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