@CostumedVole thanks very much. This does indeed make it on suitable for my use. Shame really.
Only for 3 months. Jasmines start sprouting leaves in March. My vines are vigorously growing right now. The hedge stems are quite thick and added Jasmine stems left will provide strong screening over the 3 winter months.
I don't know where you live @Khanivore, but that also has a bearing on how long any climber would be 'green', as @CostumedVole indicates. If the soil around the hedge is light and sandy, you'd also need to make sure you plant them a good bit away from the hedge as it'll be very difficult to get anything well established, and that won't be easy to do. It'll be extremely dry there, as already said, and you'd need several plants. I'd be wary of planting anything new until you can establish if the hedge has just died off due to severe drought, or whether it's down to any pests or diseases. I'm inclined to agree with @JennyJ, and just make use of the ivy if you don't want to remove the hedge.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Anything planted there now is really going to struggle for nutrition and water ... the soil is full of leylandii roots ... if the ivy is already there and growing I'd go with that.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What I have done in this situation is dig a hole/trench next to the bush, taking out the existing roots, and fill it with new compost. I then make a raised bed from a trough. Troughs come in pieces I assemble and I assemble the sides without the bottom. Or I cut the bottom out. I then place the bottomless trough on top of the filled hole of compost. I then fill the trough with compost, with added Blood, Fish, and Bone fertilizer and also my unused fish-tank substrate, all mixed together. I plant the Jasmine Officinale along the trough. That gives it the raised trough area, as well as the compost in the hole underneath it to get established very well and fast.
Remember, the roots of the hedge in that region have died. They will be making room underneath and becoming compost in place. And there is an immense space under the grass, as well as the composted dead root area of the shrub, the Jasmine roots will grow into. Where the planter is next to a grass area or a pavement, driveway, or patio area, there is immense space for roots under that. I have done this very successfully many times.
The Jasmines you see growing in the raised trough in the first picture are 6 plug plants I bought from here.
Hi @Khanivore. Having just found out that a mature viburnum tinus I have has honey fungus I would check for that. My viburnum was dead on one side and still a bit green on the other. I've just learned that the way to check for it is to scrape away at the root, going down about 6" and if you see white bits that look like flakes of paint and smell like mushrooms you have honey fungus. The honey fungus also has long black threadlike roots - it is those that find a healthy tree root and insert themselves into it. Over the course of about a year the shrub or tree will gradually die. If it is not taken out the HF can travel and infect nearby trees and shrubs too. My viburnum is going to have to be taken out and I will not be able to plant anything else there for a year or so. Unless I plant grasses or bamboo, which are not susceptible. Anything non-native is pretty much susceptible. Dig down and have a look because if it is honey fungus that will affect your future choices.
Great advice. I’ll try my best to look for it @didyw . It’s really hard to dig there. The soils is Sandy but also hard to get down in to. I’ll give it a go.
im a total beginner in the garden. I’ll check out your suggestion again @Jac19 (really appreciate the write up) but it’s probably beyond me from the looks of thigns.
> But it’s probably beyond me from the looks of things.
It's easy. Dig a trench. Empty 2 bag of compost in it - a 35l John Innes compost and a multi-purpose peat based compost. Put the 6 plants in. They will root deep under the grass area.
But only possible if you don't have Honey Fungus. Need to get to the bottom of that first.
Look, sections of hedge die without affecting other plants around it all the time. I think it is safe to dig a trench, fill it with compost, and plant some Jasmine Officinale.
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If the soil around the hedge is light and sandy, you'd also need to make sure you plant them a good bit away from the hedge as it'll be very difficult to get anything well established, and that won't be easy to do. It'll be extremely dry there, as already said, and you'd need several plants. I'd be wary of planting anything new until you can establish if the hedge has just died off due to severe drought, or whether it's down to any pests or diseases.
I'm inclined to agree with @JennyJ, and just make use of the ivy if you don't want to remove the hedge.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Remember, the roots of the hedge in that region have died. They will be making room underneath and becoming compost in place. And there is an immense space under the grass, as well as the composted dead root area of the shrub, the Jasmine roots will grow into. Where the planter is next to a grass area or a pavement, driveway, or patio area, there is immense space for roots under that. I have done this very successfully many times.
The Jasmines you see growing in the raised trough in the first picture are 6 plug plants I bought from here.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/garden-health/disease/Honey-fungus
im a total beginner in the garden. I’ll check out your suggestion again @Jac19 (really appreciate the write up) but it’s probably beyond me from the looks of thigns.
It's easy. Dig a trench. Empty 2 bag of compost in it - a 35l John Innes compost and a multi-purpose peat based compost. Put the 6 plants in. They will root deep under the grass area.
But only possible if you don't have Honey Fungus. Need to get to the bottom of that first.