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Would a Thuja Emerald + Beech mixed hedge work?
ryant
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My plan for my approx. 9 meter road facing garden is as follows:
6 thuja emrald spaced 1.5 meters apart - and keep them pruned as distinct conical trees, not a continuous hedge.
This will look nice, I think, but will not serve as an effective privacy screen.
So I am thinking, perhaps i could plant beech between the conifers to fill up the space.
Would that work?
I am hoping that eventually I would let the thuja to 3m and the beech to 1.5 m..
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Gosh. what are we looking at?
Are those Thuja emeralds? How did they get so brown?
Aha. so we need an evergreen hedge. How about a yew? Uppy and downy will be clipped for symmetry, so i'm expecting a neat /\=/\=/\=/\=/\=/\
I think it would look dreadful too. They aren't compatible plants for a hedge.
Even if using the same hedging plant - up and down sections would be difficult to keep looking right. Is there a reason you don't want a simple, uniform hedge? I have a blackthorn hedge which only needs done a few times through the year. It's about 70 feet in total, and only around four to five feet in height, and not too dense to clip.
Pansy's right - it's hard enough work even doing that!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...