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12-09-2008, 03:58 PM
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Hedge that's quickish?
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from Compo in Caithness contains these words: Rosa rugosa makes a great but slightly scruffy hedge. I thas the advantage of pretty flowers throughout the summer and huge hips throughout the winter. Oo-er, Missus! Birds feed on the hips in late winter. Fast growing and available as hedging plants from 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. 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. When I was a child I used to nest under a hawthorn tree/bush/w.h.y? Later, while a teenage brat, I made two mallets from an horizontal branch of hawthorn, where the scions left it to climb vertically. I still have and use them - more than fifty years later. 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 Finally, Snowberry. This is a vigorous hedging plant that will form a free standing bush several feet in height and width if left to its own devices. Has small flowers in summer followed by white berries throughout the winter. Birds feed on the berries in hard times. Very easily grown from cuttings but I don't know how readily available from nurseries etc. Readily available from my garden... -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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