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You’d be surprised how quickly a native hedge will grow. Will have missed the boat for bare root this year. But I’d go mixed native: Holly, hornbeam, beech purple/green, hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, field maple, Dog Rose, Wild privet. All year interest mix of evergreen, deciduous and wildlife friendly.
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That's a perfectly good mix, but judging by the panels the span is about 9m. The presence of the Spacehopper indicates kids, so it my be wise to lose the dog rose, blackthorn and hawthorn. The remaining varieties would be more than enough, leaving kids and Spacehopper unpunched.
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Completely agree with this. I bought a native hedge pack from the woodland trust a couple of years ago, mega cheap and great to support an excellent charity. And now I have a 5ft hedge. Pretty bare in winter so I have some beech too, but it's slower growing
Colin_the_Bald
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It's a bit unclear who owns what. There's a little alley behind our garden (which I think now ends at the panelled fence, formerly it was the chain link fence) and the gardens behind (where the trellis is) and in this alley is where the developer planted the trees.
I think that if we attached trellis to the fence, no one who cared would notice.
It's tricky, there are a lot of boxes to tick - ideally, nice-looking, evergreen, fast-growing.
I think maybe we should just plant the laurel for ease and speed, and then more interesting plants beneath and between.