No they will send their roots down through the walls and into the soil beneath. It is a very usual rural arrangement. I am presuming you will be trimming the hedge especially in the early years to get it to thicken up.
Honeysuckle is another good plant to put in the hedge, and hazel.
Foundations of wall will be concrete, stones loosely cemented together....natural gaps within stones will be left....therefore in theory it will look like a dry stone wall but with a bit of cement fixing them in place. This wall sounds complicated but not really! The wall will be approx 3.5 feet high.
I've been considering building a low double wall around a new patio with herbs growing in the gap between, using old bricks from taking down a wall inside the house. The bricks are from the 1880s. Any thoughts on a) is this a good idea, b) what kind of foundations would be necessary?
I know this is a long time ago, but for anyone else stumbling across the thread I’d recommend looking up how to build Cornish hedges. Essentially two walls both with a concave face, filled with subsoil. http://www.cornishhedges.co.uk/PDF/building.pdf is a most excellent article on how to make them properly. No cement, and properly built won’t need any attention for at least 100 years, some of the hedges where I am have been in use for millennia. They’re designed to get covered in plant life so are the perfect structure if you want to grow plants on them. Although as always with walls, let the stone you’re using dictate the style of build.
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No they will send their roots down through the walls and into the soil beneath. It is a very usual rural arrangement. I am presuming you will be trimming the hedge especially in the early years to get it to thicken up.
Honeysuckle is another good plant to put in the hedge, and hazel.
From elsewhere I have discovered the plants should be placed at 5 to the metre in staggered rows.
We were thinking of putting concrete foundations for the wall......hedging plants would still be OK?
Foundations of wall will be concrete, stones loosely cemented together....natural gaps within stones will be left....therefore in theory it will look like a dry stone wall but with a bit of cement fixing them in place. This wall sounds complicated but not really!
The wall will be approx 3.5 feet high.
I've been considering building a low double wall around a new patio with herbs growing in the gap between, using old bricks from taking down a wall inside the house. The bricks are from the 1880s. Any thoughts on a) is this a good idea, b) what kind of foundations would be necessary?