It should but if the earth is really compacted it won't so best to try and break it up a bit if you can. Just stick in a garden fork and loosen it. No need to dig or excavate.
If your site is really windy I expect taller evergreens may suffer as even they will not like the desiccation caused by strong winds.
All are shrubs which will cope with full sun, good drainage and exposure to wind.
Thanks for the suggestions. Love both the Helianthemums and the Hebes. We're so fed up of the wind. We're not how well the evergreens we planted inside the wall will cope.
I would perhaps think about spreading out the turves to maybe the pillar so there is less pressure from the depth of soil pushing against these two walls. Then building the wee wall from the pillar across.
We'd like to but there are privet stumps further along the wall. Would it be okay to bury them? They're still alive. We'd like to pull them out but the genral opinion is that the wall would collapse as they're right up beside it.
As Obleixx suggested just turn the top two or 3 layers grass to grass then I would just fill with top soil. Its what I did in my raised bed and everything was fine . No sign of grass coming up at any stage and never seen any in the 5 years scince.
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If you don't want the privet stumps to grow, burying them can't hurt and might kill them off if they're covered deeply enough (although privet is tough stuff so no guarantees there).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
As Obleixx suggested just turn the top two or 3 layers grass to grass then I would just fill with top soil. Its what I did in my raised bed and everything was fine . No sign of grass coming up at any stage and never seen any in the 5 years scince.
@JennyJ I'm tempted to give it a go and bury them, but if it doessn't work, we'll have a bigger job trying to get at them to try and kill them off again.
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