Hydrangea hedge

Thanks veggie. I hadn’t considered camellia. I love them . I’ve not mastered the art of taking cuttings from them yet. Must try harder.

If I go with hydrangeas, I was planning on dead heading & pruning at same time. I guessed they don’t need pruning for them to continue flowering. As they last so long anyway. Is that right?

I think the dead flower heads are left on the plant over winter to protect the next year's buds, then cut off in spring. I always forget to do mine and it looks very scruffy!!

Oops! I’ve been doing it wrong for years then   . Thanks for that.

I have some of the common buddleia. Not sure it would make a dense hedge. Grows like elder, flowering branches die off to be replaced by new shoots.
Mixed hedges here. Front (roadside) hedge is the original privet with interlopers of ash, oak, laurel and yew - all a bit boring.
Side hedge, front, is camellia and fig, cotoneaster, a couple of roses, fuchsia and a pink fluffy flower. On the other side is a Hebe, laurel and some dying privet.
Back garden is just a mishmash of anything, including edibles like jostaberry and worcesterberry.

When do you prune the fuchsia? That grows great up here. Again very easy to take cuttings and I’ve got a few already.
Edibles I was thinking a hedge of red & black currants. I’ve been given lots of those and I know when to prune them   

We have mixed hedges - cornus, birch, hazel, holly, maple, blackthorn ( ) rose, beech, oak, ... and cut in late summer.

Plus a row of buddlejas which I'm hoping will be a hedge when they fill out.

What hight is your mixed hedge? 
I was thinking buddleia. Because love them and have lots and can take cuttings easily. Wasn’t sure if it would make a hedge. Let me know how they do.

The  mixed hedges are cut back to about 1.60m and easily make a good 2m by late summer. Creates masses of useful shredding too for mulch!
I don't think the buddlejas will make a proper dense hedge just a good demarcation between two zones.

I was thinking the buddleia wouldn’t make the best hedge. Then realised it doesn’t have to. It could going in front of the stock fence next to the road. More as a screen from nosy tourists rather than a proper hedge. 

keep the ideas and suggestions coming. I’ve got at least 4 hedges planned + an edible one around my vegetable garden. I’m thinking hops growing on the fence for parts of that. Thanks to another one of veggies bright ideas