Once had the ultimate pleasure of watching a weasel mum and her litter of 4 babes playing chase me in and out of the old stone wall of a medieval church........ just beautiful
That's lovely Northernlass - I'm with you all the way........ if I couldn't have a dry stone wall then it would have to be a hedge........
If it's a well used public footpath then I'd be inclined to go to some sort of fencing and with a hedge with thorns and other interest and such as a mixed berberis: red leaf and one of the evergreens too. That's reasonably fast growing and will stand up to most the weather will throw at it and will grow in more or less any type of soil. The thorns will put off anyone from trying to stray into your garden and they're attractive too.
always a hedge because hedges let wind through but filter it a wall forms a vortex over your wall and can cause damage to plant on other side if strong wind plus wildlife benefit from a hedge
Star gaze lily, our neighbour has a wall but you cant see it as its covered in ivy, and the otherside of us have a hedge. So there is no set thing of keeping with everyone else. The people who have walls all have different styles.
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Look what we had in our wall:
If it's a well used public footpath then I'd be inclined to go to some sort of fencing and with a hedge with thorns and other interest and such as a mixed berberis: red leaf and one of the evergreens too. That's reasonably fast growing and will stand up to most the weather will throw at it and will grow in more or less any type of soil. The thorns will put off anyone from trying to stray into your garden and they're attractive too.
always a hedge because hedges let wind through but filter it a wall forms a vortex over your wall and can cause damage to plant on other side if strong wind plus wildlife benefit from a hedge
Star gaze lily, our neighbour has a wall but you cant see it as its covered in ivy, and the otherside of us have a hedge. So there is no set thing of keeping with everyone else. The people who have walls all have different styles.