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we need to form a hedge round the outside of our garden we have two front gardens one one the front and one on the side being on a corner plot unfortunately people think its there right to let there dogs go on there even though I have put signs up. we want it to grow dense and about 5ft quickly and be evergreen so we can open it up into our other garden and enjoy it for what it is supposed to be any suggestions?
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I would plant a holly hedge - it's an evergreen British Native and provides good cover and nesting opportunities for wildlife, it'll form a dense hedge which will deter intruders and you can also have berried holly branches for Christmas.
http://www.hedgesonline.com/holly-hedging
It grows much more quickly than people think, but I would erect a windbreak screen http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/windbreak-and-shade-netting-cid182.html around the outside and plant the holly inside - that little bit of protection will help the holly to bulk up a bit more quickly, and will also stop passers by and their dogs from damaging it until it has grown into a sturdy hedge.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
jools - I know the problem only too well
Keep phoning the council and reporting it to the dog warden. Unfortunately now that you've put a sign there, it often encourages some clowns to see it as a challenge.
If you want something more formal to keep neatly clipped and shaped,the quickest growing evergreen would be laurel, but it does get big and it doesn't look good if you try to keep it small, so it depends how much room you have. If it's a smaller area, privet would be the next best, although it's not strictly evergreen and can lose a bit of foliage over winter. If you want something more informal, you could try Berberis - one of the green ones, as the purples are deciduous. Nice and jaggy too!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
thanks for that we have a large area 60ft to hedge so quite a challenge.
If any encouragement, don't make the mistake of thinking that the bigger the plants you buy the quicker the hedge will grow.
Larger hedging plants often take quite a while to settle and establish after transplanting before they grow away, while smaller plants will quite often catch up or even overtake the growth of bigger ones as the transplant shock isn't such a big deal for them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Take time to prepare the area well jools. It will pay dividends. I had to remove turf round the boundary and put a fence in, and I then used plenty of decent compost and manure which was left to rot down over the summer before planting my bare root hedging (Blackthorn) in November. I added extra compost and a little Blood, Fish and Bone when I put the whips in.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
we did have a fence a couple of neighbours objected to it.it made headlines in the newspaper believe it or not even though we had gone through the proper channels and had planning permission from the local council. they took us to court and we had no choice but to compromise and take the fence back 40ft as the solicitors fees were getting ridiculous. they now park vans and cars round the bend so they couldn't see the fence anyway and we had planted climbers and flowers round it to make it pretty.even though we couldn't see them. So that part of our garden has not really been used even though we maintain it and keep it tidy.so a hedge would solve our problems hopefully.
If you want to get it off your chest and we are all quite nosey, Why would you need permission to put up a fence? Unless it is next to a highway then you can put up a 2 metre fence on your own land.
It beggars belief sometimes doesn't it jools? I don't understand what goes through people's heads nowadays. How ludicrous that you did everything right with planning etc yet you were taken to court. I had to put a fence round my boundary to stop children constantly running through it. They'd been doing for years apparently according to a neighbour. Damaged a nice little cherry tree and other planting as well. I used to live a few hundred yards away for over 15 years and, after splitting up with my partner, I thought it would be nice to move back here. Biggest mistake I've ever made. I'll be moving once my youngest daughter finishes school in a couple of years.
And that's why I've chosen Blackthorn as the hedge - incredibly jaggy
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
we were 2 meters in and 1.8 metres high which was expectable by the council. here goes. they had banners on their houses clayhanger needs space not a fence in your face lol very poetic. Then we had a coach full of Councillors walking round our garden great eh. we then went to a council meeting to discuss this with our neighbours and the council agreed the fence could stay....... then the papers were getting stories from the neighbours saying, where are their children going to play ..... its our garden...... we had people driving from miles to take a look. lol that's when they decided to take us to court with a mediator.
oh we didn't need permission we thought wed just do it the right way.