Hedge Type Advise
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jimmy milnes
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Cheers matey
countrryboy
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If ur planning to lay it in future i wouldnae plant 3 rows thick.
I imagine it might be a nightmare to lay.
But it may depend on the style, id imagine any styles with stakes would be a pain
Like i said id speak to a local hedgelayer.
Ask species that grow well locally to u and spacings, wether he prefers double fenced with rabbit net ( if so how wide? Wide enough he can lay behind fence with oit taking them down or tight to hedge?)
Or wot tubes/spirals he prefers
He might also tell u not to cut it at all as he will want it 8-12ft high for laying.
While beech is a very goid hedging plant.
It mibbee would be a touch boring for 100% of hedge. A few species that flower and/or provide a mix feed for birds and insects etc
Ur thorns can be good but obviously jaggy. Blackthorn can be nice for early flowers and sloes, but the thorns can carry a bacteria that carries sepsis.
Thats why if u get a blackthorn skelf it often becomes poisoned and bloody sore, that u dont often get with other thorns/skelfs.
Just sonething to be aware off
Freeforester
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Nine + species one I planted some years ago
One I prepared earlier. 9 species; 2 rows staggered and a foot length apart, for a mile and a half, soil depth about 2” for the most part, bleddy hard ground, but it took fine enough. Willow in a short softer wet bit, otherwise elder, hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose, bramble, hazel, holly
And a few Ash standards. Might have been a dozen yew.
One I prepared earlier. 9 species; 2 rows staggered and a foot length apart, for a mile and a half, soil depth about 2” for the most part, bleddy hard ground, but it took fine enough. Willow in a short softer wet bit, otherwise elder, hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose, bramble, hazel, holly
And a few Ash standards. Might have been a dozen yew.
merlin
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Freeforester
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Planted this short beech hedge about 5 years ago, if you nip off the top leader of the stock at planting time you’ll get the hedge to be thicker at the bottom than otherwise.
Wapinschaw
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Note that any hedge will take a few years to mature, you will probably need a dog proof fence until it grows.
enfieldspares
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Hornbeam is a lovely hard wood and used to be used to make bearings and tool handles. It also makes a good house fire.
Alhamander
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Picking up a slightly older thread I know, however perhaps one of you might know --> does anyone know if yew would grow up on Skye (or surrounding areas i.e Highlands)?
In the middle of planting a couple of hundred beech and interspacing with hornbeam but would like something evergreen to run through it also (privacy!) and like the idea of yew...we have no livestock near it (and if the deer eat it then that serves them right considering the damage they've done to everything else).
Or would I be daft to grow yew (or something similar e.g. holly oak of which I have quite a lot in pots, funnily enough) in a hedge along with beech & hornbeam? Might it just look weird/not work...?
In the middle of planting a couple of hundred beech and interspacing with hornbeam but would like something evergreen to run through it also (privacy!) and like the idea of yew...we have no livestock near it (and if the deer eat it then that serves them right considering the damage they've done to everything else).
Or would I be daft to grow yew (or something similar e.g. holly oak of which I have quite a lot in pots, funnily enough) in a hedge along with beech & hornbeam? Might it just look weird/not work...?
Hardwick ranger
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Alhamander
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And apologies for the probably pointless question but the holly grows fine in the midst...? Does it all give good "privacy" throughout the winter? Might throw in a few holly/holm oaks and see what happens...
Holm oaks grow very slowly, and I'd want to check if they will grow at all up there.
In a way, you could mix in anything you like and see what happens. If some fail, you could fill any gaps with hornbeam, hazel, any thorn or holly later.
Privacy?? Leylandii, surely ?
Swedish
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In a clipped hedge the Hornbeam and the Beech retain their dead leaves until the new ones push through so privacy isn't too bad, yes the holly kind of grows through it all and seems to do do just fine. I'm coastal South Cumbria so probably a similar climate to you on Skye.
csl
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It was worth it for the 5 or so years they'd grown up to where they wanted it... but by the time I moved in they were a nightmare! Avoid, unless you plan to be gone in 5 years...Privacy?? Leylandii, surely ?
I'm trying some bay hedging which is evergreen and, so far, is doing quite well in a poor soil.
Anything but Leylandii!.
Privacy?? Leylandii, surely ?
I once new a lady by the name of Anne Leyland, ex- wife of the chap who created the leylandii.
On divorce, she'd kept the house (which included all his fantastic greenhouses and propogating sheds), but the whole place was planted up with his various experimental leylandii trees. Their towering forms turned what would otherwise have been a very attractive rural property into a dark and forbidding cave.
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