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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
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Has anybody a shrub recommendation to fit these specs - Has berries for bird-life winter feed. Looks good. Reasonably fast growing. Self-fertile (will plant both sexes if need be). Mature height under 1.5 metres. Partial shade (gets the westering sun). Easy to find (on the net?). Price not important (within reason!). I've looked at Holly but haven't found one that quite suits although I may have been looking in the wrong place. The soil is well drained and of almost neutral pH. Thanks - Joe |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
Subject: Shrub Recommendation - Please !
From: Joe McElvenney Date: 05/05/2004 11:36 GMT Daylight Time Message-id: Hi, Has anybody a shrub recommendation to fit these specs - Has berries for bird-life winter feed. Looks good. Reasonably fast growing. Self-fertile (will plant both sexes if need be). Mature height under 1.5 metres. Partial shade (gets the westering sun). Easy to find (on the net?). Price not important (within reason!). Some form of Berberis perhaps? -- Rhiannon http://www.livejournal.com/users/rhiannon_s/ "The trick is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them." Aubrey on remaining at liberty www.somethingpositive.net |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
"Joe McElvenney" wrote in message ... Hi, Has anybody a shrub recommendation to fit these specs - [snip] The RHS have recently added a new feature to their website where you put all the details in and it selects appropriate plants. I tried it with your details and it suggested Mahonia japonica and Viburnum davidii. I then tried it with autumn berries instead of winter, and it came back with 3 pages of suggestions including Aucuba japonica, Berberis thunbergii, various Chaenomeles, Daphne, Hypericum, Skimmia, etc. etc. Obviously some of these will be better for birds than others, but if you try it for yourself it should give you enough ideas. Hope this helps Neil |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
Joe McElvenney5/5/04 11:36
Hi, Has anybody a shrub recommendation to fit these specs - Has berries for bird-life winter feed. Looks good. Reasonably fast growing. Self-fertile (will plant both sexes if need be). Mature height under 1.5 metres. Partial shade (gets the westering sun). Easy to find (on the net?). Price not important (within reason!). I've looked at Holly but haven't found one that quite suits although I may have been looking in the wrong place. The soil is well drained and of almost neutral pH. Have a look at the RSPB site: http://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/guide/plants/index.asp -- Sacha (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
"Joe McElvenney" wrote in message ... Hi, Has anybody a shrub recommendation... Cotoneaster? -- Nick Wagg |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
In article , Joe McElvenney
writes Hi, Has anybody a shrub recommendation to fit these specs - Has berries for bird-life winter feed. Looks good. Reasonably fast growing. Self-fertile (will plant both sexes if need be). Mature height under 1.5 metres. Partial shade (gets the westering sun). Easy to find (on the net?). Price not important (within reason!). I've looked at Holly but haven't found one that quite suits although I may have been looking in the wrong place. The soil is well drained and of almost neutral pH. I did think of red currant till I realised all the berries get eaten in midsummer rather than winter! Your preference would be a british native - if you can find a holly that suits, they are good particularly for mistle thrushes. I don't know whether it would be possible to keep a hawthorn within bounds and still get berries? Rowan are popular but grow too tall. Elderberries get eaten as soon as they are ripe. Pyracantha are taken by birds but not as first preference, viburnum seem to be lower down the pecking order and cotoneaster lower still. What about a dwarf apple tree? - blackbirds in particular like apples. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
In article , Neil Jones
writes The RHS have recently added a new feature to their website where you put all the details in and it selects appropriate plants. I tried it with your details and it suggested Mahonia japonica and Viburnum davidii. I then tried it with autumn berries instead of winter, and it came back with 3 pages of suggestions including Aucuba japonica, Berberis thunbergii, various Chaenomeles, Daphne, Hypericum, Skimmia, etc. etc. Obviously some of these will be better for birds than others, but if you try it for yourself it should give you enough ideas. Out of that lot, I still have skimmia berries from last season, so their clearly not a bird preference, and I've never seen birds on chaenomeles either. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
I would have thought that Cotoneaster, as suggested, would be ideal.
Pyracantha would be just as suitable. Avoid unusual fruit colours as these tend to be avoided by birds. Probably not included in their inherited memory bank. Best Wishes. "Nick Wagg" wrote in message ... "Joe McElvenney" wrote in message ... Hi, Has anybody a shrub recommendation... Cotoneaster? -- Nick Wagg |
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Shrub Recommendation - Please !
Hi,
Thank you to everybody for all the suggestions. I have made a list of them which should help me make a suitable choice. Thanks once again - Joe |
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