Looks possibly like Portuguese laurel with ivy. But I'm looking on a phone screen so might be mistaken about the Portuguese laurel. Lots of bare root hedging suppliers online will stock Portuguese laurel and the ivy will continue to colonise. I've bought other hedging from Ashridge trees and they're ok.
If the interior wood was the base of green growth then it will resprout but if it was separate plants which were dead inside the hedge then they obviously won't but the ivy will grow through it. Generally speaking, you won't kill a broadleaf hedge by prunng it hard.
I think it's possibly privet. With the ivy, as @cmarkr says, which is clearly well established as it's flowering. It often looks a bit elongated, especially in shade. Hedges Direct is often recommended on the forum, and I've used Hopes Grove nursery many times, who are excellent. You should be able to order plants now, which will be delivered over late autumn/winter as bare root. Easier to establish. I would buy very small plants - around 12" to 18" to fill gaps, but I'd agree that the ivy is simply covering the existing planting which may or may not be alive. Without removing the ivy, it would impossible to state which.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Holly is evergreen and will grow as high as you want. Evergreen, so, all year round coverage. Beautiful leaves. Flowers in spring and summer and who does not love those red berries.
My contributions are all good for that hedge, both to fill up the sparse parts in the picture, or to cut down in rare places and replace it with as the new plant grows.
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Lots of bare root hedging suppliers online will stock Portuguese laurel and the ivy will continue to colonise.
I've bought other hedging from Ashridge trees and they're ok.
If the interior wood was the base of green growth then it will resprout but if it was separate plants which were dead inside the hedge then they obviously won't but the ivy will grow through it. Generally speaking, you won't kill a broadleaf hedge by prunng it hard.
Hedges Direct is often recommended on the forum, and I've used Hopes Grove nursery many times, who are excellent. You should be able to order plants now, which will be delivered over late autumn/winter as bare root. Easier to establish.
I would buy very small plants - around 12" to 18" to fill gaps, but I'd agree that the ivy is simply covering the existing planting which may or may not be alive. Without removing the ivy, it would impossible to state which.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/St-Johns-Wort-Hypericum-Hidcote.html
Jasmines are rambling climbers and will do the same thing filling out the sparse areas.
The top one will fill in the gaps, winding in through the sparse part of the current hedge shrubs. The Cheery Laurel is good for where there is a gap.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My contributions are all good for that hedge, both to fill up the sparse parts in the picture, or to cut down in rare places and replace it with as the new plant grows.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...