boundary hedge row

Thanks guys, eventually we plan on widening our drive, the trouble with that is that it requires paying the council for a bigger dropped curb, shouldn’t be an issue but I think it’s in the region of £400, plus the drive would need new block paving so it all matches and I’d need a new wall since the opening would be different. I doubt I’d see much change out of £4,000 by the time it’s all done. £100 for some new nice looking shrubs is a cheaper route.

Also since we only have one car, if we widen the drive with a bigger drop curb for no advantage to us, it wouldn’t take long for the neighbours to realise we are doing it purely to prevent people parking there.

We are current out going round garden centres looking for options. Already got some nice pots from home bargains for the current ones to live in.

 

Well we had a good look round 5 different garden centres. I preferred the camellia, my wife preferred laurel. So we now have 6 laurel bushes.


I’ve got some pots for the old ferns so I’m hoping to bring them on in more direct sunlight. I found when I dug them up that they still have very solid pot shaped root structures, so they hadn’t managed to burst out of it and they were therefore pretty dry which is probably why they weren’t growing. I’ve broken them up quite a bit before putting them in the pots with lots of water.

 

A touch further away, they should have plenty of space.

They might just be heathers. Hopefully they’ll make a full recovery in their new home and it’ll become obvious.

EDIT, just read, if those are the heather as you suggest, they only grow to about 60cm tall, totally useless for my need, then I'll not be happy with the garden centre that sold us them. Not that there is much I can do 2 years on though.

 

Close up of what I think @Loofah has correctly identified as heathers. How tall will these grow? If they aren’t going to be that tall will they at least fill out when they are more healthy?

 

I'd prune them by about a third and hopefully they will fill out lower down.