Hi all.

I have recently gone through the pain of having to cut back and down large amounts of overgrown bushes and trees in my garden from a house I have just purchased. This has now left my garden overlooked, but on the upside has let large amounts of light in.

I have left the tree posts in the ground so I can run wire between them in several lines (a bit like a vineyard) and I would like to grow a natural hedge along the wires so it ends up creating my natural hedge.

I am not sure what I can use that will not only wrap itself around the wire and grow but also fill out.

I want to cut the tops of the hedge down each year to keep the height correct and not let it get out of control but at the same time I don't want to have something that is going to produce lovely flowers in spring / summer then die away leaving nothing in winter.

Please can you provide some suggestions what I can use?

I will be doing this on three sides of the garden so I don't have to use the same plant and the same colour, I can have three different colours on the three sides.

Clematis is an obvious choice for colour but dies off in winter.

I need green leaves for winter for depth and colour in the spring and summer.

The three sides of the garden will be in sun nearly all day.

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

On Apr 24, 10:53*am, rfcalan
wrote:
Hi all.

I have recently gone through the pain of having to cut back and down
large amounts of overgrown bushes and trees in my garden from a house I
have just purchased. *This has now left my garden overlooked, but on the
upside has let large amounts of light in.

I have left the tree posts in the ground so I can run wire between them
in several lines (a bit like a vineyard) and I would like to grow a
natural hedge along the wires so it ends up creating my natural hedge.

I am not sure what I can use that will not only wrap itself around the
wire and grow but also fill out.

I want to cut the tops of the hedge down each year to keep the height
correct and not let it get out of control but at the same time I don't
want to have something that is going to produce lovely flowers in spring
/ summer then die away leaving nothing in winter.

Please can you provide some suggestions what I can use?

I will be doing this on three sides of the garden so I don't have to use
the same plant and the same colour, I can have three different colours
on the three sides.

Clematis is an obvious choice for colour but dies off in winter.

I need green leaves for winter for depth and colour in the spring and
summer.

The three sides of the garden will be in sun nearly all day.

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

If I were planting such a thing I'd include a good wide mix of fruit
in it.


NT

On Apr 24, 6:26*pm, NT wrote:
On Apr 24, 10:53*am, rfcalan
wrote:





Hi all.

I have recently gone through the pain of having to cut back and down
large amounts of overgrown bushes and trees in my garden from a house I
have just purchased. *This has now left my garden overlooked, but on the
upside has let large amounts of light in.

I have left the tree posts in the ground so I can run wire between them
in several lines (a bit like a vineyard) and I would like to grow a
natural hedge along the wires so it ends up creating my natural hedge.

I am not sure what I can use that will not only wrap itself around the
wire and grow but also fill out.

I want to cut the tops of the hedge down each year to keep the height
correct and not let it get out of control but at the same time I don't
want to have something that is going to produce lovely flowers in spring
/ summer then die away leaving nothing in winter.

Please can you provide some suggestions what I can use?

I will be doing this on three sides of the garden so I don't have to use
the same plant and the same colour, I can have three different colours
on the three sides.

Clematis is an obvious choice for colour but dies off in winter.

I need green leaves for winter for depth and colour in the spring and
summer.

The three sides of the garden will be in sun nearly all day.

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

If I were planting such a thing I'd include a good wide mix of fruit
in it.

NT- Hide quoted text -

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I'd plant a mix of species including Hawthorn Bird cherry, Lonicera
Natidia to give you a fast evergreen,
But you don't say how large your garden is, where you are or if it's a
town or country property.
It might be an idea to run wire netting along the Hedge line to stop
cats and dogs pushing through and making their own paths through the
"hedge to be.
The more info you can give then the better the answers you will get.
David@ the dry end of Swansea Bay.

On Apr 24, 10:53*am, rfcalan
wrote:
Hi all.

I have recently gone through the pain of having to cut back and down
large amounts of overgrown bushes and trees in my garden from a house I
have just purchased. *This has now left my garden overlooked, but on the
upside has let large amounts of light in.

I have left the tree posts in the ground so I can run wire between them
in several lines (a bit like a vineyard) and I would like to grow a
natural hedge along the wires so it ends up creating my natural hedge.

I am not sure what I can use that will not only wrap itself around the
wire and grow but also fill out.

I want to cut the tops of the hedge down each year to keep the height
correct and not let it get out of control but at the same time I don't
want to have something that is going to produce lovely flowers in spring
/ summer then die away leaving nothing in winter.

Please can you provide some suggestions what I can use?

I will be doing this on three sides of the garden so I don't have to use
the same plant and the same colour, I can have three different colours
on the three sides.

Clematis is an obvious choice for colour but dies off in winter.

I need green leaves for winter for depth and colour in the spring and
summer.

The three sides of the garden will be in sun nearly all day.

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards

Alan

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rfcalan


Hedge species by and large will grow again from the stumps. You wil
get lots of "rods". Let them grow up about six or eight feet and then
lay or have laid the hedge. Takes two orthree years to grow this
height.

This is the normal way of reviving a native hedge that has grown up
too high.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_laying