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Boundary With High Ground Requiring Tree/Shrub Regeneration
Hi Gardening Colleagues,
I’m grateful for the guidance you gave me with regard to repairing a lengthy hedgerow boundary. The hedgerow is being rebuild with over 400 plus barefoot beech, hazel, hawthorn, field maple, and blackthorn.
So here’s my next challenge.
My seventy five year old gardner has astonished me. He’s single handily cut back overgrown Laurel, uncovering a fish pond and a large patio.
Where the Laurel resided was on high boundary ground which you can see in the attached picture. My neighbour is happy to see the Laurel removed has he owns houses in the adjacent field. Apparently, Laurel leaves are extremely poisonous to horses.
I’d be grateful if someone could advise what type of trees and shrubs that I could plant. I’m looking for tree/scrubs which are bird friendly that could regenerate the boundary.
I’d like to incorporate the fish pool and patio into the landscape as whoever owned the property twenty years ago must have been professional Gardner’s unlike me.
Any advise on how to replant this high ground boundary would be greatly appreciated.
Warm regards,
Ian
I’m grateful for the guidance you gave me with regard to repairing a lengthy hedgerow boundary. The hedgerow is being rebuild with over 400 plus barefoot beech, hazel, hawthorn, field maple, and blackthorn.
So here’s my next challenge.
My seventy five year old gardner has astonished me. He’s single handily cut back overgrown Laurel, uncovering a fish pond and a large patio.
Where the Laurel resided was on high boundary ground which you can see in the attached picture. My neighbour is happy to see the Laurel removed has he owns houses in the adjacent field. Apparently, Laurel leaves are extremely poisonous to horses.
I’d be grateful if someone could advise what type of trees and shrubs that I could plant. I’m looking for tree/scrubs which are bird friendly that could regenerate the boundary.
I’d like to incorporate the fish pool and patio into the landscape as whoever owned the property twenty years ago must have been professional Gardner’s unlike me.
Any advise on how to replant this high ground boundary would be greatly appreciated.
Warm regards,
Ian
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Hazel, Holly, and Viburnum Opulus are all good for wildlife. Bees, butterflies, moths,birds ( and the occasional squirrel in Autumn for the hazelnuts) would all appreciate the plants.