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What kind of hedge is this

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  • 27-05-2017 9:22pm
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    GLENNFALLON
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭


    Hi.

    Can anyone help identify this for me. It's in my dad's garden, but he doesn't know what it is. It has these flowers at the moment, but in the winter it has a orange berry. Would it be suitable for hedge. Thanks


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    looksee
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    Pic? (Might be a pyracantha :D )


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    GLENNFALLON
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭GLENNFALLON


    Hi this is it


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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,445 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yes that looks like a pyracantha aka firethorn. Yes they make a good hedge.


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    GrumpyMe
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    GLENNFALLON wrote: »
    Hi.

    Can anyone help identify this for me. It's in my dad's garden, but he doesn't know what it is. It has these flowers at the moment, but in the winter it has a orange berry. Would it be suitable for hedge. Thanks
    Just be aware the Romans rejected Pyracantha for the "Crown of Thorns" because they considered it would be too cruel! :Dhttp://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/03/980x656/firethorn_pyracantha_1.jpg


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    _Brian
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    Yea, we had one at our last house and I hated the damn thing, razor sharp barbs were the sharpest I'd seen on any plant, often planted as a security fence.

    One thing though, they're slow growing, it would take quite a while to make a hedge.


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