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RE: Hydrangea hedge - Veggie - 23-03-2022
." I’m thinking hops growing on the fence for parts of that. Thanks to another one of veggies bright ideas Cool."
"Ale of Mull" brewery??
RE: Hydrangea hedge - Small chilli - 23-03-2022
It’ll be Bradan cottage. Unofficially it’ll be the Bradan inn
.With the best beer & beer garden ever
RE: Hydrangea hedge - Norfolk Grey - 23-03-2022
What do you want the hedge for?
I have a buddleia hedge and I love it. I only put it in to help obscure the paddock from the drive and the drive from the footpath which works great for summer and not a lot in winter, but then people don't tend to be about anyway. It is made from salvaged seedlings out off the drive and a few cuttings (so cheap is great) and has been in place about 8 years. It is hardy (the white don't tend to bulk up so well) and then you hack it all back as hard as you like, although they do produce a lot of waste material to get rid off. Mine smells great in the summer and there are that many butterflies that they often set the doorbell off. I am trying to introduce the odd lilac into it now just to add something else/ more interest. Unfortunately I have looked through pics and can't find any for when it is at its best. I am happy to post a pic of it now so you can see it at its worst before I hack it back for summer.
RE: Hydrangea hedge - Small chilli - 23-03-2022
Well obviously we want to see photos
. Even at its worst, yes please.2 hedges are for screening from nosy tourists. 2 are to set boundaries for the cottage garden area and to keep the dogs out of it.
RE: Hydrangea hedge - Farendwoman - 23-03-2022
Yes - agree.
Haven’t dead headed mine yet - leaving it a few more weeks. Still a chance of frosts here and I couldn’t bear to lose a summer’s worth of blossoms.
RE: Hydrangea hedge - SarrissUK - 23-03-2022
I had buddleia at the old house whether I liked it or not. And I did not like it. I really hated it. It was a lilac but common, scruffy, straggly looking buddleia that grows in anything and causes a lot of damage with their roots. The more refined types of buddleia might be less destructive and nicer to look at.
I love the idea of edible hedges - could you extend your thoughts around the currant bushes to include gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries too? That is such an awesome idea. I have all of those types, but no space to have a full hedge of them.
Happy to send cuttings once mine have grown enough!
RE: Hydrangea hedge - Veggie - 23-03-2022
^^^ Raspberries and blackberries aren't as good in an edible hedge as the currants, gooseberries and other bushes that stay where they're planted. Raspberries wander and blackberries sprawl unless you have a fence or summat to train them on.
I don't have a planned edible hedge - just bunged in cuttings alongside the fence.
RE: Hydrangea hedge - toomanytommytoes - 24-03-2022
Escallonia? Bees love the flowers.
RE: Hydrangea hedge - Scarlet - 24-03-2022
I've just dug up my gooseberry hedge...sick
Of pigeons eating all the berries.
My blackcurrant hedge is fabulous in the summer...doesn't screen much as I do take out a fair few stems. One has died, but I've got varieties that fruit at different times.
I've got a mixed native hedge. Love it for the screening, I've not pruned it correctly really as last year I used it for cut flowers....but it's fabulous for the wildlife it brings.
I can't grow hydrangeas here - my ground is too dry, they just droop in the heat.
I would love a rose hedge....
RE: Hydrangea hedge - Small chilli - 24-03-2022
(24-03-2022, 12:37 AM)toomanytommytoes Wrote: Escallonia? Bees love the flowers.After googling. I really like that. Evergreen as a bonus. Brilliant. Does it grow well from seed? I don’t know that I have access to cuttings. But it’s definitely going on my hedge list & stand alone shrub list. Thank you.