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Best bushes that would grow under and beside Conifers
Hello 
Be nice to me I'm a newbie
I have 6 conifers (no more than 7ft tall) in my front garden. They are lovely and green my side, but on the road side they are bare and twiggy, with just a bit of green on the last 2ft of them. I would like to plant some green shrubs (fast growing) to mingle with the conifers so it looks better from the the street. Would appreciate some ideas please? Finances are a big factor, I'm working on a very tight budget.
Thanks
Lynniec
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Welcome Lynniec
We try to be nice to everyone, even the old stagers
How much space have you got infront of the conifers (are they Leylandii?) and which way does the bed face?
What's the soil like?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi and thanks
Yes they are and there's not much space in front, (see picture) 6 inches? When you say bed face do you mean roots? I don't know about the soil, I live on the coast so its sandy!!
Hmmm ... I'm a bit stumped to be honest with you ... there's hardly any room there anyway and I'm sure what little bit of soil is there is full of leylandii roots.
You don't want to hear this
but I'd bite the bullet and take the lot out, refresh the soil, put a trellis fence up and grow climbers on to give you the privacy you obviously need just there.
But as you said, there's the budget to think of
Let's see what other people think .............
Last edited: 21 February 2018 15:46:14
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What would be the easiest way for me to take them out? Apart from asking a big strong man !!
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I found them to be relatively shallow rooted when I took out an old hedgerow at my last house. Cut them down to about 4ft in height then use this as the lever to rock them out. You'll need to be careful with the brickwork, especially the small retaining wall. It wouldn't take much to damage that using the rocking method. Might be better to try and dig those ones out on this occasion.
Also if I did cut them right down would the stumps rot in time Dovefromabove?
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Thank you Dave, I think I'm going to give it a go myself
Lyn (a regular on here) has removed hers by removing the foliage and using the trunks as a lever to wriggle and rock them back and forth and they eventually work free ... they're not deep rooted trees. I'd give the soil a good soaking first
Oh, and Lyn's quite slightly built and I don't think she;d mind me saying she's not in the first flush of youth ... although she probably got her OH to help her
Have you got anyone you can bribe with cake ... that's how a lot of us '27 year olds' get things shifted ...
You'll discover that we're all 27 on here (even my daughter Wonky Womble who is a grown up married lady) ... we got that far and stopped and we ain't budging
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hahahahaha - I'm going to ask around Dovefromabove, cake, bacon butties and plenty of mugs of tea
for anyone who wants to come to sunny Southport to help me?!? 
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