boundary hedge row

So I popped into dobbies garden centre on my way home, totally by accident, had to collect a missed parcel, saw a petrol station down the road so called in there and then saw the centre behind so thought it would be rude not too. Didn't buy anything because I was on my motorbike and the idea of fitting 5 bushes on the back didn't really appeal.

So what they had in stock was a lot cheaper than I expected, not quite as tall as I'd have liked but much taller than what I currently have.

So the choices the lovely lady suggested were

Vinca Ralph Shugart for 9.99 - I think from google they have purple flowers which are my wife's worst colour so probably a no go


camellia mix for 14.99 - quite nice and on offer too, selection of sizes and prices, id probably go for the tallest they have


euonymus silver king for 34.99 - easily the tallest hence the price which I dont know if i can justify



ligustrum aureum for 9.99


carpinus betulus for 9.99


prunus laurocerasus for 9.99

 

Check your soil first anth85.....so a PH test. Very cheap and simple test that determines if your soil is acid, alkaline or neutral.
If your soil is neutral to acid then camellias are a good choice. My soil here is neutral and grow several camellias here.
Euonymus too is a good choice...easy and attractive foliage. So too is the ligustrum aureum, golden privet, and the prunus.
Carpinus is deciduous though.
Whatever you plant spend time getting some decent compost in there plus a general fertiliser.

 

Hi @anth85 the vinca would be no good unless you had a trellis for it, it's a creeper. I think the euonymus is a bit pricey for what it is. If your soil would do camellias, they sound a better deal.

 

ordered one of these for that purpose
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B077WX15NF/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

At the minute we don't want to make a decision with looking at a couple of more places and I need to know the result of that test. But from those, we like the camellias and the prunus. We'd have to make a decision to whether we want them to be bushes where we could have alternating in a line, or whether we want all the same and cut them to a square hedge shape. My wife categorically doesn't want privets.

 

Camellia makes a good hedge anth85. Trimmed after flowering they will flower very well as a hedge. You could alternate colours too

 

Hi @anth85 , have you looked at Ceonothus ( Californian Lilac ) a lovely evergreen shrub with flowers from pale sky blue tbrough to dark blue. Quick growing but easily controlled and shaped.

 

Had a quick google image search and it’s brought up a lot of purple and lilac coloured flowers. I think a may have seen them in the garden centre but discounted them due to my wife’s rather weird hatred of all things purple.

 

My loyal friend the Meercats says. Szimbles! cut the cost and get the local council involved.

 

Then anth85 would then be committed to permanently staying parked in the street to defend parking outside their house.

An alternative would be to widen the driveway/crossover/dropped kerb, plus get the local highway authority to paint a line across the widened driveway.

If it's widened just sufficiently to prevent 'large vans' being left with sufficient space outside, then that's problem solved.

 

Only if it's onto a classified road, the additional area of hardstanding is of non-porous construction, within the grounds of a listed building, requires removal of railings/gates over 1m high in a Conservation Area, or affects a protected tree.

Otherwise It would only require a licence from the highway authority.


P.S. I missed out 'intensification of use of an existing access' (serving additional properties/uses) as it's been a while since being involved in a scheme which involved that and didn't bother checking up on it as it appeared so unlikely to be the case here.

EDIT1: PP May be required if the hardstanding extension takes the total area of your garden over the limit required when PP is needed for any further development.

EDIT2: The are also areas of special consent where a housing developer has entered into a covenant with the Local Authority and permitted development rights have been removed from the housing development and owners will require special consent for various works in their gardens from the Local Authority.

And I think there's one more where certain areas (can't remember the name) have been afforded greater protection than Conservation Areas, but owners are entitled to compensation for loss of permitted development rights.

EDIT3: The above is where the property is subject to an Article 4 Direction.


Think I've covered most instances now.