we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs will grow in the soil?

Subject: what plants will grow in leylandi soil?
From: ambermeta
Date: 08/08/2004 18:17 GMT Daylight Time
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we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?

Loads, once you've gotten rid of the leylandii of course.
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we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?




The soil thats left after you dig them up?

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Would you be more explicit? What soil are you referring to? Is it the
soil within a metre or so of the leylandii trunks?

Regards,
Emrys Davies.





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we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?


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we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?

As you may have found, many 'wild' plants, nettles, bindweed, ivy,
GooseGrass, etc. seem to thrive. 'Escaped' Honesty also appears to
enjoy the shade and provided the soil does not dry out too quickly, I
am sure there are many 'garden plants which would survive happily.

Any vigorous hedge will sap the moisture from its surroundings, but
provided your soil is not too free draining, then you should have no
qualms about trying things out. A lot of South African species survive
in dryish conditions - Geraniums, mesembryanthemums, etc.

Just remember that the hedge needs trimming and you have to consider
how to accommodate that as well as your new border.

Long may you enjoy 'Life with Leylandii'. :-))

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ned

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last update 08.08.2004

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"ambermeta" wrote in
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we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?

As you may have found, many 'wild' plants, nettles, bindweed, ivy,
GooseGrass, etc. seem to thrive. 'Escaped' Honesty also appears to
enjoy the shade and provided the soil does not dry out too quickly, I
am sure there are many 'garden plants which would survive happily.

Any vigorous hedge will sap the moisture from its surroundings, but
provided your soil is not too free draining, then you should have no
qualms about trying things out. A lot of South African species survive
in dryish conditions - Geraniums, mesembryanthemums, etc.

Just remember that the hedge needs trimming and you have to consider
how to accommodate that as well as your new border.

Long may you enjoy 'Life with Leylandii'. :-))

--
ned

http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk
last update 08.08.2004

Ned ........glad you enjoy life with Leylandii ...........theirs one hell
of a lot of long suffering neighbours who wish something nasty and natural
would decimate every single one of them

On 8/8/04 18:17, in article ,
"ambermeta" wrote:


we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?

If you mean literally at their feet, the answer is nothing. They take all
the goodness from the ground, they don't replenish it with leaf fall, they
make it excessively dry and eventually, they bush out so much as to take
light from their entire surroundings.
IF you get rid of the C. leylandii and plant e.g. a beech hedge instead, you
will gain a great deal of garden and a lot more planting area, plus cover
for birds.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

In article , Sacha
writes

we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?

If you mean literally at their feet, the answer is nothing. They take all
the goodness from the ground, they don't replenish it with leaf fall, they
make it excessively dry and eventually, they bush out so much as to take
light from their entire surroundings.

We have a 200 ft. long Leylandii hedge, now about 12 years old and some
30-40 ft.high. It abuts a disused rail trackbed, so it is no problem to
anyone, but it gives us privacy from diverse users of the track. Over
the years a very profuse growth of brambles have developed between the
trees and our boundary, making the hedge quite impenetrable. I snip off
any intrusive bramble stems as they appear on our side of the hedge. I
notice now that quite a variety of self-sowm wildflowers are developing
under the brambles between and around the trees, and with them abundant
wildlife. I keep a mowed walking access at about 2ft. from the trees,
other than that I let nature take its course. A truly environmentally
friendly project.
--
Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.

On 10/8/04 18:55, in article , "Alan
Gould" wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes

we have 30 leylandi,well established.what flowering plants or shrubs
will grow in the soil?

If you mean literally at their feet, the answer is nothing. They take all
the goodness from the ground, they don't replenish it with leaf fall, they
make it excessively dry and eventually, they bush out so much as to take
light from their entire surroundings.

We have a 200 ft. long Leylandii hedge, now about 12 years old and some
30-40 ft.high. It abuts a disused rail trackbed, so it is no problem to
anyone, but it gives us privacy from diverse users of the track. Over
the years a very profuse growth of brambles have developed between the
trees and our boundary, making the hedge quite impenetrable. I snip off
any intrusive bramble stems as they appear on our side of the hedge. I
notice now that quite a variety of self-sowm wildflowers are developing
under the brambles between and around the trees, and with them abundant
wildlife. I keep a mowed walking access at about 2ft. from the trees,
other than that I let nature take its course. A truly environmentally
friendly project.

If the OP wants a garden full of brambles he's onto a sure thing following
that method. But he asked about flowering plants or shrubs.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

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On 10/8/04 18:55, in article , "Alan
Gould" wrote:

In article , Sacha
writes


We have a 200 ft. long Leylandii hedge, now about 12 years old and some
30-40 ft.high. It abuts a disused rail trackbed, so it is no problem to
anyone, but it gives us privacy from diverse users of the track. Over
the years a very profuse growth of brambles have developed between the
trees and our boundary, making the hedge quite impenetrable. I snip off
any intrusive bramble stems as they appear on our side of the hedge. I
notice now that quite a variety of self-sowm wildflowers are developing
under the brambles between and around the trees, and with them abundant
wildlife. I keep a mowed walking access at about 2ft. from the trees,
other than that I let nature take its course. A truly environmentally
friendly project.

If the OP wants a garden full of brambles he's onto a sure thing following
that method. But he asked about flowering plants or shrubs.

I have an established, at least twelve years old, leylandii hedge ( would
love it down but cant see my way clear to doing it right now)
Other than brambles the only thing I have found growing there is dandylion
and a few stunted nettles ( and I mean stunted - about a foot high , in the
rest of the garden nettles are a tryfidd like six feet). The ground is dry,
even when its been raining hard. You cant actually establish anything in
the garden plant category at all, it whithers and dies.

mich wrote
"....... Other than brambles the only thing I have found growing there is
dandylion and a few stunted nettles ........."

Have you tried Lamium?
Also you might find that some of the Sedum will grow


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David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk