Hello

I have a quandary over what to do about the hedge at the front of my house.

The hedge is a privet about 6 foot tall, which is exactly how I like it as it
create tremendous privacy from the road. The problem is the hedge only goes
along half the front of the house, the other half has nothing, no hedge or
anything.

The reason for this is that the previous owner of the house took away half
the hedge so he could put his car in the front garden.

I have taken up the flagstones he'd put down for the car in the garden and
created a small lawn. My next job is to fill in this section of missing
hedge.
What I'd really like is simply to have the 6 foot high privet continued so
I'll have a nice 6 foot hedge right across the front of the garden. Having
looked at the hedge plants at my local gardening centres I see that they are
approx 1 foot tall and I haven't a clue how long it will take them to become
6 foot hedges.

Also I don't know how long privet hedges remain good for. I have this
horrible feeling that I will watch the new privet hedge grow gradually over
years only to discover that when it has reached the height of the current
mature hedge, maybe the old hedge will die of old age or something...

Another possibility would be to remove the mature privet and put a new hedge
right across the front. The downside of this for me is that I do love having
the tall hedge now and it would presumably take a very long time for the new
hedge to get tall all the way across.

Maybe it is possible to buy hedge plants larger from somewhere which would
solve the problem.

Ideas anyone?

TIA
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Patrick