I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran

In message , kiloran
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I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran
I can't for the life of me think why anyone would surround a veggie
patch with privet, so good thing its dying, but they don't die easily in
my experience, so better see what's killing it? But to your question,
what about blueberries perhaps?




--
Chris Boulby National Collection of Diascias

"kiloran" wrote in message
...
I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran

how about

Pyracantha
Escallonia

In message , kiloran
writes
I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran
I can't for the life of me think why anyone would surround a veggie
patch with privet, so good thing its dying, but they don't die easily in
my experience, so better see what's killing it? But to your question,
what about blueberries perhaps?




--
Chris Boulby National Collection of Diascias

"kiloran" wrote in message
...
I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran

how about

Pyracantha
Escallonia

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:26:49 -0000, "kiloran"
wrote:

I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran


You've got your veg - what about fruit?
Cordon grown Red/White currants,Gooseberries.
Raspberries, Blackberries, hybrid berries.
Depending on the height you want - cordon/espalier/step-over apples
and pears.
Fan trained plum.
Add a few ornamentals,a few late flowering clematis scrambling through
everything.
Winter flowering Jasmine.
There's a lovely little Prunus incisa with a Japanese name I can't
remember, that's flowering now.
Any more? - I think you know where to find me :-)
Rod

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http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:26:49 -0000, "kiloran"
wrote:

I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran


You've got your veg - what about fruit?
Cordon grown Red/White currants,Gooseberries.
Raspberries, Blackberries, hybrid berries.
Depending on the height you want - cordon/espalier/step-over apples
and pears.
Fan trained plum.
Add a few ornamentals,a few late flowering clematis scrambling through
everything.
Winter flowering Jasmine.
There's a lovely little Prunus incisa with a Japanese name I can't
remember, that's flowering now.
Any more? - I think you know where to find me :-)
Rod

Weed my email address to reply
http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:26:49 -0000, "kiloran"
wrote:

I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran


You've got your veg - what about fruit?
Cordon grown Red/White currants,Gooseberries.
Raspberries, Blackberries, hybrid berries.
Depending on the height you want - cordon/espalier/step-over apples
and pears.
Fan trained plum.
Add a few ornamentals,a few late flowering clematis scrambling through
everything.
Winter flowering Jasmine.
There's a lovely little Prunus incisa with a Japanese name I can't
remember, that's flowering now.
Any more? - I think you know where to find me :-)
Rod

Weed my email address to reply
http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:26:49 -0000, "kiloran"
wrote:

I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran


You've got your veg - what about fruit?
Cordon grown Red/White currants,Gooseberries.
Raspberries, Blackberries, hybrid berries.
Depending on the height you want - cordon/espalier/step-over apples
and pears.
Fan trained plum.
Add a few ornamentals,a few late flowering clematis scrambling through
everything.
Winter flowering Jasmine.
There's a lovely little Prunus incisa with a Japanese name I can't
remember, that's flowering now.
Any more? - I think you know where to find me :-)
Rod

Weed my email address to reply
http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:26:49 -0000, kiloran wrote:

I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

How about making sure the fence is very neatly built and painted
a bright white - a real New England white picket fence, iow. A
garden is, after all, an artificial creation and there's naught
amiss with emphasizing some aspects of the artificiality.


--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
[change "atlantic" to "pacific" and
"invalid" to "net" to reply by email]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:26:49 -0000, kiloran wrote:

I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

How about making sure the fence is very neatly built and painted
a bright white - a real New England white picket fence, iow. A
garden is, after all, an artificial creation and there's naught
amiss with emphasizing some aspects of the artificiality.


--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
[change "atlantic" to "pacific" and
"invalid" to "net" to reply by email]

Hi Kiloran,
Privet (Ligustrum) is a prime target for Honey Fungus (Armillaria).
Before planting any woody plants on the site, make sure that H'Fungus isn't
present. Also, rhubarb and strawberry plants can be affected, so these
should be kept away from the hedge site if H'Fungus is suspected.
Once the hedge is removed and the fence erected, you will need to seriously
improve the soil before planting anything.
Although a productive screen would seem an attractive idea, many are
high-maintenance, and fewer still would make a solid screen.
A suggested screen might be holly (Ilex). The variety 'J.C. van Tol' is
self-fertile, ensuring attractive winter berries. If you wanted to
supplement the holly's tiny flowers, you could train a summer-flowering
climber through its branches once the screen was sufficiently established.
Spider

kiloran wrote in message
...
I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran

Hi Kiloran,
Privet (Ligustrum) is a prime target for Honey Fungus (Armillaria).
Before planting any woody plants on the site, make sure that H'Fungus isn't
present. Also, rhubarb and strawberry plants can be affected, so these
should be kept away from the hedge site if H'Fungus is suspected.
Once the hedge is removed and the fence erected, you will need to seriously
improve the soil before planting anything.
Although a productive screen would seem an attractive idea, many are
high-maintenance, and fewer still would make a solid screen.
A suggested screen might be holly (Ilex). The variety 'J.C. van Tol' is
self-fertile, ensuring attractive winter berries. If you wanted to
supplement the holly's tiny flowers, you could train a summer-flowering
climber through its branches once the screen was sufficiently established.
Spider

kiloran wrote in message
...
I have a privet hedge about 3ft high around my vegetable plot. It's old.
It's tired. It need frequent clipping. It's dying.

I plan on replacing it with a light wooden fence, which I intend to screen
with a variety of plants.

I want:

Flowers in the summer and interest (berries/foliage) in the winter.
Little maintenance, apart from the odd bit of pruning.
Good screening of the fence
Variety
Not too thick

Location is west central Scotland.

Suggestions?

--Kiloran