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Small Border Hedging

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  • 25-09-2008 9:24pm
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    brown bear
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭


    HI

    I have a raised deck which is about 30cm raised and i am looking for a suitable plant/hedgeshrub that i can plant around the edge and keep trimmed to about the 30cm mark.


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    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    Is this to screen the underside of the decking? I would go for Box.


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    Mylow
    Registered Users Posts: 802 ✭✭✭Mylow


    bmaxi wrote: »
    Is this to screen the underside of the decking? I would go for Box.

    +1 (Buxus)


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    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Box is nice, but expensive and very very slow, if on otherhand you'd like colour and a fast growing low <30 cm shrub, there are lots of other options, including :

    Hebe Green Globe
    Andromeda Blue Ice
    Libanotis
    Lavender Blueberry Ruffles
    Euonymus japonica Extase
    Perrynetta


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    bmaxi
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    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Box is nice, but expensive and very very slow, if on otherhand you'd like colour and a fast growing low <30 cm shrub, there are lots of other options, including :

    Hebe Green Globe
    Andromeda Blue Ice
    Libanotis
    Lavender Blueberry Ruffles
    Euonymus japonica Extase
    Perrynetta

    While I'll agree Box is slow growing, it is not necessarily expensive. I bought a six pack, approx 15cm. tall, in Lidl for €3.99 not so long ago. Perfect plants.
    Slightly off topic. I'm a big fan of the German multiples but one thing that does annoy me is the way they treat their plants, they never see a drop of water from the day they go on display and are left to wither and die. I don't understand the logic, if people don't buy healthy plants they are certainly not going to buy shrivelled ones, so at least take them off display and give them a decent burial. Rant over:)


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    brown bear
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭brown bear


    thanks, when you say slow gowing, how slow


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    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Box is perhaps one of the most commonly poorly planted hedges and being a slow grower (a few inches perhaps per year!) exacerbates results of the poor planting and spacing.

    It is an excellent plant but to get impact requires a lot of plants, hence the expense. I would not consider 15cm plants as useable.


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