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Screening a corner site

Wee MawWee Maw Posts: 3
in Problem solving

Our garden is a corner plot.previous owners have planted and ignored a leylandii hedge, now 2.mt wide and 3mt high. We have cut back the inside face back to the main stem giving us about  a metre more inside the garden. Deep down we know it has to go but what can we plant to give us a screen to the pavement on an exposed corner?? The soil looks awful, and the roots are heading to the house.

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  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,697
    The soil will be awful.....those trees are very greedy. You'll need to bring it up to scratch with compost or manure once you get rid of the trees.



    You could plant a beech or hornbeam hedge as both species hang onto their dead leaves over winter so giving you more privacy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    I agree, beech or hornbeam would be lovely there - or holly image

    But yes, you'll have to replenish the soil first.


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Wee MawWee Maw Posts: 3

    Thank you. I shall investigate this. Either that or a flame thrower!

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