Remember, the faster your hedge grows, the more often you will have to cut it back. Privet can be grown to your choice of height and kept trimmed or be left to its own devices to grow more loosely and naturally when it could have the clusters of white flowers. Not everyone enjoys its smell. Plants do not stop growing at their estimated maximum height. That is why councils have stopped using Cupressus leylandii. For privacy an evergreen bush might be a better choice than an edible hedge.
Not procumbens, that only gets to about 6 inches high. Gaultheria mucronata (Bells seedling most commonly found) can get to 6 feet and gaultheria shallon apparently can get to 14 feet in its North American home, it is about 4-6 feet high in my garden. I wouldn't voluntarily plant either, they are seriously invasive weeds.
My concern with a hedge that yields food is that you’ll have a glut of something you scarcely wanted to eat in the first place. There is an obvious reason why obscure fruits are not widely grown - they don’t taste very nice!
My emphasis would be on planting something that performs well in my growing conditions, provides privacy, can be easily maintained, looks attractive, is friendly to wildlife, provides varying seasonal interest and then, and only then if there were still a choice in the matter, pick a plant that yields a harvest of something worth eating.
Having heard all these thoughts I realise that what I want to focus on is something that I can plant in front of the wall that will he thin for the first metre of its height (so you can still see the wall) and then bushy after the first metre.
Perhaps more like a line of trees or bushes that merge together to give the privacy?
Having heard all these thoughts I realise that what I want to focus on is something that I can plant in front of the wall that will he thin for the first metre of its height (so you can still see the wall) and then bushy after the first metre.
Perhaps more like a line of trees or bushes that merge together to give the privacy?
Does anyone have Ideas for that?
You could do something with pleached pears or apples
You can do the same free-standing if you erect posts and wires and train the growth horizontally
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For privacy an evergreen bush might be a better choice than an edible hedge.
My emphasis would be on planting something that performs well in my growing conditions, provides privacy, can be easily maintained, looks attractive, is friendly to wildlife, provides varying seasonal interest and then, and only then if there were still a choice in the matter, pick a plant that yields a harvest of something worth eating.
Does anyone have Ideas for that?
So I gave an answer.
You can do the same free-standing if you erect posts and wires and train the growth horizontally