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Which climbers will be suitable to cover a brown patch of leylandii?

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  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    How about a truculence of trolls? 
  • Jac19Jac19 Posts: 496
    edited September 2021
    > it works easily and beautifully in the same conditions

    I have grown Jasmine in every garden I have had, running them over hedges that have no flowers for bees or running them over trellises.  That was a hedge I had done before. 

    I have had this garden only for 12 months and I am just getting started on this one's Jasmine hedge.  I got the Jasmine plants started right away last autumn, over wintering them indoors.  Now I have a tree surgeon coming to kill the hedge shrub in place this autumn because my Jasmine vines will be ready to move over to it after the first frosts in spring 2022.  I have to put a winter fleece over them this winter also because I added some new plants to the lot this spring and those are a bit tender for this winter.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    Why are you killing the hedge? 
  • Jac19Jac19 Posts: 496
    So that it can be a structure to the nicer Jasmine; and also because it just sucks up nutrition and does not help bees and butterflies; and also because it is too close to the foundation.

    I have tried to send rambling roses up them before, but they are not nearly as nice.
  • jonhasonmartin3ZxpT_H5jonhasonmartin3ZxpT_H5 Posts: 8
    Remove the brown patches, as they will not re-shoot. Encourage other green branches to regrow over the brown patches to hide them. Also, cutting a Leylandii hedge too frequently might result in brown spots. Trimming a Leylandii hedge once a year is all that's required.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    It's all sorted for advice @jonhasonmartin3ZxpT_H5 this thread turned into some surreal conversation about anything but the hedge. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • Lancashire LassLancashire Lass Posts: 367
    amancalledgeorge said:
    It's all sorted for advice @jonhasonmartin3ZxpT_H5 this thread turned into some surreal conversation about anything but the hedge. 
    Thank you, I agree on both counts!
    All sorted folks.
  • Jac19Jac19 Posts: 496
    amancalledgeorge said:
    It's all sorted for advice @jonhasonmartin3ZxpT_H5 this thread turned into some surreal conversation about anything but the hedge. 
    Only because of the trolling attacks on me. "Gang, come here and give some made up thing to undercut her."
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