Does anyone know anything about gardening?

@Brommers not exactly sure if the mix is ‘right’ but it sounds great. Seriously consider laying it like @edmundro suggested. It’s an awesome thing.

The old boy who taught me had bonsai laid hedges in window boxes that he used to take with him for demonstrations of the varying styles.
I only really know south of England single brashed(like the pic I posted) but I used to work for a guy who did double brashed with angled posts. Not my favourite look but keeps the deer well clear of the new shoots on either side.

Basically poshos give a hedge to the hedgelaying society for their training days or competitions and all they do in return is provide a tea van. Fuckers don’t even supply the stakes and binders. On a busy competition day I’ve seen 400-500m Done and dusted in a day.
If your average working woodland man does 15-20m/day and wants £100/day cash min that represents an insane saving on the part of the landowner.
It’s also the reason almost no one can run hedgelaying commercially(it’s winter work for country tree boys) as you just can’t price against free!

been meaning to ask this for a while but do deliberately insert all those line breaks into your posts or is your browser doing something weird?

bonsai laid hedges in window boxes

haha, amazing, I want one

Not a browser glitch.
I tend to verbosity,
so, try to break up dense text to aid comprehension.

Just a tea wagon? I would want at least coke and whores for that kind of work! Seriously, the societies should get together and set a standard cost/m, with maybe a discount for training days.

it looks like poems,
quite nice if
you're looking for a chan
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Any oak experts able to tell me what this is? I’m leaning towards Japanese Evergeen Oak on the leaves, but the acorns don’t look right when compared with a quick internet search.

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Holm Oak, quercus ilex

Thank you!

I have a question about creating bed in a garden. I’ve decided I want to add more plants to beds in the garden. It will mean cutting into my lawn but I’m struggling with certain aspects.

This is where I want to put the beds (excuse the mess)

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godspeed

From what I can tell, you haven’t included any questions in your post. Not that I’ll be much help whatever the question is.

I want to put the beds in the green area. My concerns are do I dig the bed below the lawn or created a raised bed out of wood. I’m hoping the beds become big enough not to need the divide but I’m also concerned about the decking getting damp and going to shit

I'd probably go for a raised bed, but I couldn't say why exactly.

You could do a gravel strip between the bed and the decking for water to drain. To be honest I doubt the edge of a raised bed will bring more moisture than the grass currently does. I recently got some cedar wood for raised beds, happy to send you the contact

I’d also go for a raised bed, would give the garden some additional structure / height.

I think you need to work out what sort of plants / look you want first as that dictates how you do the boarders.

Raised beds will generally* give a crisp edge. A more formal bed with exposed soil or mulch will give the same clean structure, but obviously on a flatter plane.

If you want something informal with flowers flopping out to the grass then I'd go for ground hight beds at slightly above grass height. You can cut the turf and turn it upside down and then put soil on top of that.

If you want something more structured then I'd go raised as it's less work to keep clean lines and add some height interest. Bear in mind that raised beds as you've drawn will make the garden look smaller than ground height beds.

*you can soften this to some extent with overhanging plants.

Thanks for all the advice. I want to create something fairly dramatic. Lots of plants with a few huge ones.

Tetrapanax papyrifer
Bananas
Fig tree
Cannas

Tetrapanax is an awesome plant, be good to have it with dinosaur statues and a smoke machine.

fairly dramatic

Go for raised beds and get creative in terms of materials, heights and shapes.

I forget his name, but there was a scruffy Irish garden designer back in the late '90s/' 00s who used to do lots of cool stuff see if you can find his stuff on YT.

diarmuid Gavin

your design is quite traditional, putting symmetrical beds in the borders of a square(ish) lawn. can you get more movement/interest by playing with shape?

We put an S shaped bed in, quite like it cos you can't see all of the garden from the house if that makes sense?

I like that idea so that everything is a bit hidden.

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You could ask your neighbours whether they'd like to join the project -
together you could spell something like P E N I S in huge letters, visible in Google Maps satellite view a few years down the road?