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Thin red robins
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My sister has grown a hedge of red robin plants in front of her garden wall as shown and she says, although she prunes the edge it's growing too thinly.
can anyone recommend another hedge plant that she can plant in between the red robins which will grow up and thicken them, or maybe she could plant some more red robins.?
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There probably isn't any need to plant more shrubs. The hedge seems to be turning into a pleached specimen all by itself, thanks to the wall, so maybe your sister just needs to be a bit more severe with her pruning technique in order to get the hedge to thicken just above the wall. I'd sacrifice a bit of height for a while in order to get the plants to bush out a bit.
Hi Ceres, thanks for the advice which makes perfect sense as she only lightly prunes the hedge each time.
She thinks heavy pruning will stop the plants from producing the lovely red leaves.
As you say she will have to sacrifice height and maybe red leaves for a bushier effect,
thankyou.
There is nothing like attacking a hedge vigorously to leave one feeling satisfied with a job well done. Hope the red robins get the message.
Yes I hope so too, thanks
The red leaves grow on the new shoots - the more you cut it back the more new shoots it'll throw out so the more red leaves she'll get
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow, must admit I didn't know that, I will make sure she does now,
thanks Dovefromabove.
Never heard of this plant before.
Perhaps you know it as Photinia?
oh right, yes thanks Ceres