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what can we plant and what can’t we plant?
What the soil is like is also a factor here. Think lots of new builds have about 6inches of bought in topsoil on top of heavily compacted rubble and other building detritus which has had heavy machinery rolling around on top of it. Which will not lead to happy trees.
Would bushy hedges not be better for providing cover for birds? Would also help to make the wall less stark.
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Check with local council and residents' association. Unless you are paying an additional maintenance charge that strip of land is probably council maintained.
lemonade
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@ewanmac
As with most new builds our house and garden is a little bit… stark. The garden (north facing) is just a square of turf with no shade and is pretty overlooked so we’ve been thinking about putting 2-3 trees in to offer some shade and some cover for birds. Ideally I’d like UK (semi) native fruiting trees like damson, crabapple or apple. And we’d plant them outside our garden along the grass verge (also part of our property) where the cherry(?) tree is.
However my mum (who’s just been doing a load of tree planting in her village) says we aren’t allowed and that there are a load of rules about not planting fruit trees next to roads, liability insurance etc etc… what’s the deal, what can we plant and what can’t we plant?
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