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A Ready Hedge
We wish to build a long hedge (non spiky) that keeps its leaves on all winter. It will kept at about 5 feet tall. Is there another *common* hedge around that i can readily snaffle some cuttings from it. Also being one that i can easily root the cuttings in pots to get it going without much problem? Thanks |
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On 02/02/17 15:20, john west wrote:
We wish to build a long hedge (non spiky) that keeps its leaves on all winter. It will kept at about 5 feet tall. Is there another *common* hedge around that i can readily snaffle some cuttings from it. Also being one that i can easily root the cuttings in pots to get it going without much problem? Thanks Privet. Late March is the right time to start taking cuttings. Maybe you can find someone with a privet hedge and offer to trim it for them. That should give you hundreds of cuttings. But bare root cuttings aren't expensive if you want to speed things up: http://www.hedgenursery.co.uk/shop-b...af-privet.html Those work out at £2.50 - £4 per metre for plants 30 - 40 cm high. -- Jeff |
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:25:36 Jeff Layman wrote:
On 02/02/17 15:20, john west wrote: We wish to build a long hedge (non spiky) that keeps its leaves on all winter. It will kept at about 5 feet tall. Is there another *common* hedge around that i can readily snaffle some cuttings from it. Also being one that i can easily root the cuttings in pots to get it going without much problem? Thanks Privet. Late March is the right time to start taking cuttings. Maybe you can find someone with a privet hedge and offer to trim it for them. That should give you hundreds of cuttings. But there are versions of privet which do lose their leaves. I have a privet hedge where some of the plants seem to be deciduous and the rest evergreen. Makes for an interesting-looking boundary in winter! David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK |
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On 02/02/17 23:15, David Rance wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:25:36 Jeff Layman wrote: On 02/02/17 15:20, john west wrote: We wish to build a long hedge (non spiky) that keeps its leaves on all winter. It will kept at about 5 feet tall. Is there another *common* hedge around that i can readily snaffle some cuttings from it. Also being one that i can easily root the cuttings in pots to get it going without much problem? Thanks Privet. Late March is the right time to start taking cuttings. Maybe you can find someone with a privet hedge and offer to trim it for them. That should give you hundreds of cuttings. But there are versions of privet which do lose their leaves. I have a privet hedge where some of the plants seem to be deciduous and the rest evergreen. Makes for an interesting-looking boundary in winter! The most common hedging privet seen in the UK is Ligustrum ovalifolium. That is evergreen unless the winter is severe when it will lose some of its leaves. In my garden there is a plant of L. vulgare. I assume it is self-sown as I can't think of any reason why anyone would want this scruffy, uninteresting, sparsely-berried, deciduous plant! -- Jeff |
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On 02/02/2017 22:21, Martin wrote:
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:20:54 +0000, john west wrote: We wish to build a long hedge (non spiky) that keeps its leaves on all winter. It will kept at about 5 feet tall. Is there another *common* hedge around that i can readily snaffle some cuttings from it. Also being one that i can easily root the cuttings in pots to get it going without much problem? Thanks Beech taken from beech woods. Beech keeps its leaves on all winter but they are golden brown rather than evergreen. Lonicera nitida is one of the finer grained hedging plants and fairly common and easy to root. You don't want anything too fast growing. This means you will need to be very patient waiting for your hedge from cuttings to get to any size. You would probably be better off buying bare root plants in autumn at 30cm size. If it is a really long hedge consider planting blocks of about 3m the same with a variation in choice of bush along the length. A big block all the same looks boring. Mine has privet, holly, lonicera, beech, cotoneaster (deciduous) with the odd sprinkling of wild rose and honeysuckle. Stockproof side uses pyracantha, hawthorn with some bramble and holly. Turns out holly and bramble are not really very stock proof. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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On 03/02/2017 07:56, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 02/02/17 23:15, David Rance wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:25:36 Jeff Layman wrote: On 02/02/17 15:20, john west wrote: We wish to build a long hedge (non spiky) that keeps its leaves on all winter. It will kept at about 5 feet tall. Is there another *common* hedge around that i can readily snaffle some cuttings from it. Also being one that i can easily root the cuttings in pots to get it going without much problem? Thanks Privet. Late March is the right time to start taking cuttings. Maybe you can find someone with a privet hedge and offer to trim it for them. That should give you hundreds of cuttings. But there are versions of privet which do lose their leaves. I have a privet hedge where some of the plants seem to be deciduous and the rest evergreen. Makes for an interesting-looking boundary in winter! The most common hedging privet seen in the UK is Ligustrum ovalifolium. That is evergreen unless the winter is severe when it will lose some of its leaves. In my garden there is a plant of L. vulgare. I assume it is self-sown as I can't think of any reason why anyone would want this scruffy, uninteresting, sparsely-berried, deciduous plant! Escallonia? Next door's is looking good here in SE London. |
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On 03/02/2017 09:07, Stuart Noble wrote:
On 03/02/2017 07:56, Jeff Layman wrote: On 02/02/17 23:15, David Rance wrote: But there are versions of privet which do lose their leaves. I have a privet hedge where some of the plants seem to be deciduous and the rest evergreen. Makes for an interesting-looking boundary in winter! The most common hedging privet seen in the UK is Ligustrum ovalifolium. That is evergreen unless the winter is severe when it will lose some of its leaves. In my garden there is a plant of L. vulgare. I assume it is self-sown as I can't think of any reason why anyone would want this scruffy, uninteresting, sparsely-berried, deciduous plant! Escallonia? Next door's is looking good here in SE London. Its very nice but a bit fragile in colder exposed regions. OP needs to give some indication where he lives and how exposed the site is. My hedges are exposed directly to North Yorkshire gales and sometimes falling trees. It takes them a while to recover from a tree hit. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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On 03/02/2017 13:03, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 08:56:18 +0000, Martin Brown wrote: On 02/02/2017 22:21, Martin wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:20:54 +0000, john west wrote: We wish to build a long hedge (non spiky) that keeps its leaves on all winter. It will kept at about 5 feet tall. Is there another *common* hedge around that i can readily snaffle some cuttings from it. Also being one that i can easily root the cuttings in pots to get it going without much problem? Thanks Beech taken from beech woods. Beech keeps its leaves on all winter but they are golden brown rather than evergreen. Lonicera nitida is one of the finer grained hedging plants and fairly common and easy to root. You don't want anything too fast growing. This means you will need to be very patient waiting for your hedge from cuttings to get to any size. You would probably be better off buying bare root plants in autumn at 30cm size. If it is a really long hedge consider planting blocks of about 3m the same with a variation in choice of bush along the length. A big block all the same looks boring. When I made a beech hedge 40 odd years ago, I took beech that was around one metre long that was growing wild on the ground of a wood. We used a similar size bought in a garden centre to extend the hedge around the garden of our current house. These days in the UK taking anything with roots from the wild is now frowned upon unless it is a pernicious weed being eradicated. http://www.environmentlaw.org.uk/rte.asp?id=217 Himalayan balsam, knotweed, ragweed, rhododenron for example. Squirrels plant plenty of beech masts in my lawns. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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On 03/02/17 14:10, Martin Brown wrote:
Squirrels plant plenty of beech masts in my lawns. Somewhat OT, but my neighbour's 15 metre beech drops thousands of masts on the flower border and lawn every year. We also have squirrels, but in the four years we've been here I don't remember seeing a single beech seedling. My ash, however, is unfortunately a very different matter... -- Jeff |
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