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Newbie needs fast growing shrub/hedge with no flowers for boundary wall.
wrote in message ... On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:49:33 +0000, Eloise wrote: Hello, I'm Eloise, new to the group, hi to everyone. The old fence that was attached to my five foot boundary wall has finally fallen down. It gave us total privacy from our neighbours but cannot be replaced with a new fence due to council restrictions on height. So, we need a fast growing evergreen that has no flowers. It needs to grow to be a dense hedge and only needs to be 5 1/2 - 6ft tall at the very most. My husband and I are more than happy to buy plants that are already four feet (120-150cms) tall. I do not want to plant Leylandii, we have always got on very well with our neighbours and want no disagreements. Life is too short to bicker. We live in Arshire but sand and sea/salt air are not a problem: we have the most beautuful soil. The shrubs/hedge would get sunlight from 8am all day long till 6ish in summer and be in a sheltered area. May I stress again, no flowering/berry shrubs. Thank you to everyone who might answer for your time and experience. I hope I have given enough information. Kind Regards, Eloise Would you consider a hedge grown from Escallonia? I have about 25 yards of a mature hedge of this shrub that is usually pruned back in my case to stay around 8 feet high. It is used to give good privacy to screen off a public area lying beyond this border hedge around part of our home back garden in Dundee. It is evergreen and has a slightly fragrant resin on the leaves. Although most of the plant has dense leaves, it does produce some smallish flowers in the summer that in my experience do not fall to leave any significant ground debris. It does not produce berries. Is it absolutely crucial that you have no flowers at all? The link below gives an example of what is available and the properties of the plants. I am not in any way endorsing any particular merchant and I found this as an example simply by googling with "escallonia hedge" as the key words. http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/Escal...Hedging-Plants Apologies if this is not helpful. Best wishes Geoff Lucky you, I used to really like this for coastal hedging but there is some sort of nasty leaf blight disease doing the rounds down here and they just look an unsightly mess the whole time. Do agree about that lovely resin smell, and its certainly quick, but the flowers may not be wanted in this particular case -- Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella and Lapageria rosea cvs http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk |
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