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Eat my hedge
Welshtyke
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in Fruit & veg
i am currently ripping out my old hedge and want to replace it with a fruiting hedge. The aspect is full sun in the afternoon. Does anyone have any suggestions please?
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Hi there maybe you could place a blackberry bush there and if the thorns are a problem so garden centres do thornless varieties?
do you mean fruiting as in , you can eat them, or just a plant which produces berries?
Ryan, Oregon Thornless might be the one you're thinking of.
Yes Hostafan i think you are correct
How big can this hedge be? In the countryside you can have wonderful fruiting hedgerows with damsons, blackberries, hazel nuts, apples etc - but you need plenty of space for that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes or even Raspberries or Loganberries they can spread quite far too
Was considerin something like myrobalan plum initially, but I understand it can get a bit tatty. Yes I am looking at something to trim as you may do with Laurel
Also thought about the cornelian cherry. does anybobody have experience of thi
What sort of fruits are you looking for? Blackthorn can be a good hedge ff you can avoid trimming overly, Sloe berries are not to everyones tastes though. Hazel is also a good choice, as mentioned above.
I'm attempting a crap apple hedge. 1 year old whips went in Jan 2014, so no flowers or fruit last year but I have fingers crossed for this year.
Prunus myrobalan is a great hedge plant - it's grown a lot around here - but if you keep it trimmed you won't get a lot of fruit.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.