Hedging Plants

[Beeline]

Try here...

http://www.plantswholesale.co.uk/browse/mahonia-shrubs-4260/?gclid=CLH20OThua0CFYEhtAodQC-SAQ

Thanks BKP but no Hop Tree on this site. Perhaps you thought I was after Mahonia.

Yeah Dani the Hop Tree is up there on my list with the Bee Tree. They are certainly very expensive but I'll let you know the best price I can get. Says well drained soil then goes on to say any soil type including clay which is fortunate for me.

The Goldenrain tree sounds interesting. Just looked it up. If you have some seeds to spare....I would love a few. Many thanks. I'm sorry I have nothing to offer you in return.

 

[Skyhook]

It must look tidy but not laser cut to perfection if that is what you mean? Probably no more than 5'.
Something that provides forage for bees, berries for birds and some colour in winter.

Cotoneaster a good choice- possibly C. salicifolius but lots of options, lacteus would be ok. Pyracantha- any, but choose a scab resistant variety. Escallonia- good flowers but no berries. Viburnum tinus- good winter pollen source.

 

[BeeJayBee]

We bought some of our hedge from Buckingham Nursery, they do 'mixed native hedging" http://hedging.co.uk/acatalog/product_10798.html

 

[Beeline]

Thanks Skyhook - think I'll get a Viburnum tinus to add to my garden. Got one escallonia already established and in place.

BeeJoyful, the native hedging is generally a thorny lot and as I'm surrounded by woodland of Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Hazel I'm quite keen to grow something different. It is a good website though.

 

[Luminos]

Is that one of your guard bees in your avatar, Erichalfbee?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Is that one of your guard bees in your avatar, Erichalfbee?

Well, the Christmas one had to go and couldn't resist the cat bee.
Horrible isn't it?

 

[Erichalfbee]

The Goldenrain tree sounds interesting. Just looked it up. If you have some seeds to spare....I would love a few. Many thanks. I'm sorry I have nothing to offer you in return.

Wayne, I'll send you some. No need for anything in return

 

[Luminos]

Well, the Christmas one had to go and couldn't resist the cat bee.
Horrible isn't it?

I think it's great. But maybe he should lay off the Red Bull a bit

 

[Teemore]

Well, the Christmas one had to go and couldn't resist the cat bee.
Horrible isn't it?

I was thinking that it was suffering the effects of foraging on GM crops.....

 

[victor meldrew]

I've decided to swap avatar , enough of the barbecue
VM

 

[Erichalfbee]

Lovely.......I used to have a Samoyed as a child.

 

[Beeline]

Wayne, I'll send you some. No need for anything in return

Ta for that. Hopefully one day we and a few others can reap the rewards.

 

[Firefly]

I don't really want something that is thorny and bleed me to death every time I prune it

and a variety of wild roses.

Does not compute

Choose the variety very carefully. I rue the day I put wild rose in my hedge

Likewise pyrocanther, which was another suggestion on this thread. Hateful stuff!

Put some spindle in. No idea if bees like it but it cheers you up in late autumn to find pretty pink in the hedge

 

[Firefly]

RHS says

>>
The flowers of spindle are rich in nectar and an important food source for hoverflies, bees and other insects. They are pollinated by St Mark’s fly; so named as the adults emerge around St Mark’s day (25 April)
>>

We had huge clouds of St Mark's Fly for a brief period this year (quite harmless) but I don't think that was down to the spindle in the hedge

 

[Easy Beesy]

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[Easy Beesy]

Hi all

Can I ask what is the botanical name of the bee tree and any idea where I can find one in lancs?
Eb

 

[Erichalfbee]

It's Tetradium daniellii

Burncoose have it.
I have access to loads of suckers from an aging mature specimen. They are leafless and hard to find in the ground at this time of year but I will post availablity in the spring if you can wait that long. (mine are free) PM me if you want some in the spring.
Otherwise google is your friend.