• I don't like Portuguese laurel, it spreads in the Belfast hills and is extremely hard to kill.

    Even with super strong glyphosate, the one you need a license for, often doesn't kill it.

    Also no use to pollinators. For a boring hedge, privet at least makes the hedge sparrows happy.

    There are native evergreens or get a non native evergreen that works, my Hazel have grown very fast. The holly is slow though to fill out.

  • There are native evergreens

    Not many! There are 5 British native evergreens

    Yew, box, holly, scots pine, juniper

    Box is now unusable due to caterpillars and blight

    Yew makes a fantastic hedge but it's slow

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