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Advise required on hawthorn hedging
Jonathan Ward wrote:
In article , says... *sigh* Retirement is an attractive prospect -- a whole new array of employment opportunities :-) I want to learn drystone walling, myself. I hope you've got a strong back. It's hard work constantly bent over picking up stones. I've had a bad back, but have taken steps to repair it, as it were. Improved posture and flexibility, building the muscles that support the spine, that sort of thing. Seems to have worked so far; I feel much more confident when bending and lifting. regards sarah -- Think of it as evolution in action. |
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Advise required on hawthorn hedging
Stephen Howard wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:19:27 +0100, Kay Easton wrote: In article , Mike Lyle writes snowdrops, and lungwort on the north side, ramsons if it's moist; bluebells, of course. I'd be surprised if it was moist enough under a hawthorn hedge. Good point! I often clear the ivy out of the bottom my hedges, and I reckon it must be one of the driest spots in the garden. It depends on location: most of my primroses and all my ramsons are on the north side of an old hedge, but below it, as the hedge is at the top of a stream-bank. Hawthorn will tolerate places too damp for it to dry out fully. Round here we have bluebells doing well in the wild on dry banks: I imagine our 30+ inches of rain helps! I do also have some primroses doing very well among ivy on a five-foot-high south-facing lump of subsoil which dries to rock in summer, but gets lightly shaded over by blackthorn. I haul out some of the ivy every so often, but have never watered. Curiously, our best local display of wild primroses cascades down the very well-drained steps up the embankment beside a railway bridge. (North-facing, though.) Cowslips, by the way, look stunning for me with aubrieta on a horrid rubbly bed at the front of the house. I only put them in as a stop-gap while ericas got established. Mike. |
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Advise required on hawthorn hedging
A friend who knows about these things tells me not to lay mine, but to cut
it back by 1/3 or 1/2 and trim it quite often so it stays that height. This is supposed to provoke new growth low down, without the risks associated with laying. Having said that, most hedgerow shrubs seem to stand quite a lot of mishandling. Regards "Kay Easton" a écrit dans le message de news: ... In article , rob w writes We have at the bottom of our new garden a very old hawthorn hedge, this is very thick and quite tall but the bottom 3 to 4 feet is bare and quite open. It would be very easy to crawl through. My question is can this hedge be thickened up or should I remove and replant, I have heard of laying it over but the bottom trunks are very thick and I’m not sure if this will work. Get and expert in to lay it. If you want to renovate it yourself, it'll take a year or two. Hawthorn shoots quite readily from bare wood, so what I would do (and am doing on mine with signs of success) is reduce the height of the whole thing though not so low as to be below the current green bit. Then on multistemmed plants take out one or two trunks quite low, and try with any that are convenient cutting them half or 3/4 through and bending them to lie sideways. Your aim is to encourage shooting down below by removing top growth, and to allow enough light into the bottom for that new growth to flourish. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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