Bare Hawthorn Hedge

 
Hi, i have a 25m long by 8ft hight hawthorn hedge which looks very old,
my
problem is that parts are very bare and from the ground to about
600mm high
there is not much hedge at all just trunks. Also im next to
a road and you can
see right through the hedge most of the year, my
question is what can i do to
fix this, i dont want to take it down so
is there some sort of evergreeen hedge
i could plant in between? Any
suggestions would be helpfull.

thanks mark




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squirreluk

 
How about some laurel hedging if you really want evergreen...  or
perhaps just add some more British native plants for a native hedge
which although it would not be evergreen would be much thicker.




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SallyJ

 
SallyJ;828386 Wrote:

evergreen...  or

Hi, no i not wanting to spend much, i read that you can plant beech
hedge in
between the hawtorn, has any one see this? is it a god idea?




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squirreluk

 
squirreluk;828387 Wrote:

can plant beech

god idea?

Yes, I think it would be. Of course beech isn't evergreen but it does
look good
over winter when it keeps its leaves until the new ones start
to form.  You
might want to think about experimenting with cutting back
some of the hawthorn
very hard (perhaps one in every two or three
plants) and seeing if it will
re-shoot from near the ground - I think
it probably will do.  If it works you
could do the same thing to some
more the following year.  Get bare rooted beech
from a local nursery -
much cheaper than in pots.




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Janet Conroy

 
I agree.  I used to have a hedge that was mixed hawthorn and beech in my
front garden, and Janet is right.  The beech held on to its dead leaves
right through the winter so it still worked as screening.




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SallyJ