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Birch seedlings
plant pauper
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I have a huge Beech tree which is very pretty and makes little seedlings everywhere...I thought.
I potted them all up and decided to have a Beech hedge eventually.
On closer inspection it turns out they are not Beech seedlings at all but Silver Birch. (The silver birch is up the lane a bit).
Can I have a Birch hedge? Has anyone ever heard of one? If I put it into Google it just comes up with "did you mean Beech hedge?"
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There's some here for sale, so why not?
http://www.hedgenursery.co.uk/shop-by-form/bare-root-hedging/betula-birch/betula-pendula-silver-birch.html
That's brilliant thanks Lyn. That's the first site I've seen that has even mentioned hedge so I've bookmarked it.
Ideally I would like a mixed hedge but it's very much still in the planning stage. It would be nice to let a couple of trees grow up in it too.
I can see a birch as a tree in a hedge, but I can't see it responding well to being cut as part of a hedge
In the sticks near Peterborough
I can't see it either nut. I'd have thought you'd need some other 'stuff' in there or it would be very gappy Ppauper.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks Nut and FG. Food for thought. I had intended to plant a mixed native hedge in so I'll maybe stick with that plan and put the birch somewhere that they can show off. They don't mind the wet apparently so that's lucky.
Good to see you back FG. I wondered where you'd gone.