Forum home› Garden design
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Plants for a Cornish Hedge.

Lindsey RichardsLindsey Richards Posts: 8
in Garden design
We have built a new stone hedge and wish to plant something on the top of it.  It is in a sunny position but exposed (We are in Cornwall, a mile from the sea)  We do not want anything that grows too high - I was considering lavender, but am open to suggestions?
«1

Posts

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Can you post a photo?   Use the little postcard shaped sun and mountain icon above the reply box to load an image.  If it doesn't work, resize to make it smaller.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lindsey RichardsLindsey Richards Posts: 8
    Thank you.  I will try to do this.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2020
    Oooooh that's fabulous ....... deep envy here  :D

    I've always thought that the Spiny Restharrow would be good atop a Cornish hedge ... at least no one would try to clamber over it and damage it. 
    https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/ononis-spinosa/

    By the way ... welcome to the forum  :)


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





  • Lindsey RichardsLindsey Richards Posts: 8
    Thank you very much for your reply and the welcome - I will check out your recommendation.  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    A pleasure ... please give our love to Cornwall ... we're usually there every year but have had to cancel this year 😭 We're having to manage with webcams of the coast ... it's lovely up here in Norfolk but we love Cornwall  <3

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That is an impressive wall.  I imagine it will get quite warm and dry in summer, especially with coastal winds so I would look for a broad mixture of plants that like sun and can cope with drought.  Have a look at these - all small shrubs and evergreen:

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/219029/Lithodora-zahnii-Azure-ness/Details 

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/10355/Lithodora-zahnii/Details

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/57246/Helianthemum-Georgeham/Details 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Hardy fuchsia?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Lindsey RichardsLindsey Richards Posts: 8
    Thank you for your suggestions.  I am familiar with some of these plants and they could look very pretty.
  • Lindsey RichardsLindsey Richards Posts: 8
    A hedge full of fuschia in bloom could look amazing in the summer.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It could but you need to bear in mind that they need quite a bit of moisture to look good and that may prove difficult in that wall - raised, above ground water level, stones heating up in summer....
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
Sign In or Register to comment.