The message
from Dave contains these words:

/prune/

Unfortunately, quite a mature hedge got destroyed by a mixture of
woodworm in some trees,

Wood-boring beetle only attacks dead wood. What did the hedge consist of?

and ivy sufforcating others.

I've never heard of ivy suffocating a hedge either. It *MIGHT* just dry
out the soil too much for some species though.

So I have quite a
large gap. Living on a reasonably busy road, I want something almost
instant. But clearly costs rises dramatically with the sizes of the plants.

Mahonia and Berberis are thorny, evergreen, and transplant very well
IME. They also have berries the birds will love. (I make jelly from
Mahonia (Oregon grape) if I manage to get them before the blackbirds and
pigeons.


PS,
sorry about the bit about "Digging the whole is enough work!" I'm not
quite sure why I spent hole that way!

There's something about typing for newsgroups that sends everyone's
spelling
haywire at times!


English never was my strongest subject (I'm a scientist/engineer), but
even I was surprised I could spell hole with a w in front!

Or 'spelt' with an 'n'?

D&RFC

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Rusty
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