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hedging plant ideas please

tansyetansye Posts: 2
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Hi, I am looking to plant a new hedge at the front of the house, in full sun (when there is some!) and want it to look good all year round with as long a flowering season as possible. It will be in a raised bed so soil type or condition can be managed. Only want it to get to 4ft or so. Any ideas please? 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Very few formal hedges have much in the way of blooms, as regular clipping tends to remove the flowering wood.  

    Were you thinking of a formal clipped hedge, or something more in the way of a row of flowering shrubby plants that would act as a boundary marker'?  If the latter, I was thinking that if the conditions are suitable, a cistus might fit the bill   https://inlandvalleygardenplanner.org /plants/cistus-x-purpureus/

    Also, whereabouts are you?  Something that would perform well in the south might struggle in the north-east, especially if there are 'coastal breezes' to contend with. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • tansyetansye Posts: 2
    Ooh yes, what a good idea, thank you. I had a fantastic white one of these in my back garden which was always a mass of flowers but we rented the house out for 3 years and nothing was done, so last year when we returned I cut it hard back as it had got so out control, but there are no signs of life on it yet this year, so I think I may have killed it!
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