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Hedge that's quickish?
In article , K writes: | Rusty Hinge 2 writes | The message | | from Compo in Caithness contains these words: | | Fuchsia is a beautiful hedging plant but I have been unable to find it | in the nurseries and had to grow mine from cuttings. Slow but they | readily root from non-flowering tips. | | However, not all of them are hardy. | | And even the hardy ones die back to ground level in the eastern half of | the country I don't think that any are reliably hardy even here, if we ever have the sort of winter we used to get up to a decade ago. | Hawthorn is perhaps one of the finest of hedging plants if you want to | keep children out! Fast growing and responds well to clipping and | shaping. Widely available. | | But the clippings are a chore to collect, and a meance if not collected. | The thorns seem to get tougher and stronger as they dry out. That is true for most plants. Hawthorn isn't really very thorny, as such plants go, but is prickly enough that I will avoid walking on it in bare feet. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
Hedge that's quickish?
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from Anne Welsh Jackson contains these words: Rusty Hinge 2 wrote: Ribes (flowering currant) grows like a weed in my garden. Totally hardy but not as fast growing as some. Probably best grown from cuttings. Also an early-flowering shrub which will attract bees to the garden. I grow some for just this reason, as the currants aren't worth a searches for publishable simile tinker's cuss. /searches Smells like cat's pee, though... Or as a one-time grilfiend of mine said - 'cats' oxters'. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
Hedge that's quickish?
"mark" wrote in message et... Good evening. I am going to plant a hedge in the next week or two. I am undecided as to what sort. Please could you suggest a hedge that is reasonably quick to establish and isn't Leylandii. Beech is my default choice at the moment but I'm throwing myself open to other ideas. Thank you. mark I'm the OP. Thanks for all the ideas. I think I'm going to go with Hawthorn and dot in some other varieties for interest. mark |
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