Off Topic Garden Boundary

[jenkinsbrynmair]

My apiary is hornbeam on three sides . I'm closing the fourth with something quick growing but can't make up my mind .trenches are dug . Just got to make the decision
VM

Barbed wire?

 

[madasafish]

Barbed wire?

We had a garden hedge of holly... It was a prickly subject for passers by...

 

[Dishmop]

What's a metre?

We used to have one we had to put money in for the gas.

 

[Moggs]

Thanks all. Plenty to go on. Low and 'thin' are important issues as the front garden isn't overly large. Slopes upward towards house too!

 

[VEG]

As with any hedge the secret is to keep it trimmed they then dont get messy, I spend quite a bit of time in my job trimming hedges, and taming ones that have been left to their own for a number of years.

 

[onymee]

Any landscaping gardeners out there? Having pulled up a couple of fallen willow shrubby tree thingies (I know, what a waste of pollen!) the front garden is a little exposed.

Need a neat and pretty low hedge boundary that could establish early but be easy to maintain (no quick growing monster hedges). Needs to look good all year round. About 10 - 15 metres x 0.5 metre width to be trimmed to about 0.6 metres high.

I thank you....

Cotoneaster. Bees adore it.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Cotoneaster. Bees adore it.

 

[victor meldrew]

So do wasps
VM

 

[iand]

Our next door neighbour has a copper beech, nice hedge but 7ft high 2ft 6" wide. The stems/trunks are 3" thick. Would over time make a very robust hedge. At 16" wide and 20" high privet sounds about right, would be a finer hedge, but would need clipping more than once a year. Cotoneaster sounds interesting, we have a similar shrub with pretty pink flowers that would make a nice hedge (sorry don't know the name) but maybe there other small interesting shrubs that would do a job for you.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Hmmm - what's going on on this forum? three pages and no mention of 'there's nothing finer than a neatly trimmed box' or allusions to an unkempt bush being not very attractive! (they even use those double entendres on the Telegraph gardening supplements.)

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Hmmm - what's going on on this forum? three pages and no mention of 'there's nothing finer than a neatly trimmed box' or allusions to an unkempt bush being not very attractive! (they even use those double entendres on the Telegraph gardening supplements.)

Jenkinsbrynmair, we want a Forum untainted by filthy language like that, if you don't mind.

Please watch your language.

If you must refer to it, please use the euphemism, "The Fascist Gazette"


Dusty.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]