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Plants Around Copper Beech
Hi all
Hoping that someone will be able to recommend some suitable plants for fence screening. The location is east yorkshire on clay soil. The area is at the north west corner of our back garden. What I am looking for is either hedging plants or reasonably self supporting climbers that will grow under/alongside the canopy of a copper beech tree. The tree is well established but has just been pruned to a height of 4-5m and spread of about 4m. The fence that encloses the tree on 2 boundaries of the garden is 2m high and between 2 and 3m from the trunk. Is there anything I can plant that will tolerate the shade (that will exist while the tree is in leaf) and conditions noted above that will successfully green-up this corner of the garden? TIA Phil |
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Plants Around Copper Beech
"Sacha" wrote Funnily enough, you could try Berberis. I was reading about the one that was in our garden and Hyams had written that it was planted in the shade of copper beeches and he says something to the effect that no tree gives deeper shade than those! Quite a few places offer Berberis as hedging plants. Thanks Sacha Did you have any variety in mind? Phil |
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Plants Around Copper Beech
On 30/12/08 12:02, in article
, "thescullster" wrote: "Sacha" wrote Funnily enough, you could try Berberis. I was reading about the one that was in our garden and Hyams had written that it was planted in the shade of copper beeches and he says something to the effect that no tree gives deeper shade than those! Quite a few places offer Berberis as hedging plants. Thanks Sacha Did you have any variety in mind? Phil Berberis darwinii and B. stenophylla are attractive and evergreen, too. I'd suggest you Google on hedging specialists so that you can then email them to tell them the exact conditions, length to be covered and your requirements and get their recommendations. In terms of cost, your best bet will be to find someone who sells them as bare root hedging and you may have a local nursery that can help with that, though plenty of online options seem to be available though I have no experience of them myself. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon (new website online) |
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