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Creeper hedge?

Discussion in 'Other Plants' started by nikirushka, Feb 6, 2020.

  1. nikirushka

    nikirushka Gardener

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    How easy would it be to create a hedge with Virginia creeper? It would need support of course.

    Part of my garden is fenced in with pallets which I like well enough, but I'll have to replace the supports soon as they're rotting and I just got thinking about using some old stock fencing instead and getting a creeper hedge going.
     
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      Well, don't forget Virginia Creeper is a deciduous and so you will have a bare space for a good while.
       
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          Indeedy, but I don't mind - that wouldn't be that much different to looking at the pallets.
           
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          Well, wait a while and I'm sure we can do better than looking at Pallets for 4 months!!!:heehee:
           
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          The choice is yours. So often with gardening, we read and listen to what is or might be considered the expert way. You live and learn. Take a chance. Have a go. Consider a beech hedge. It can spend most of it's life,...................................................looking dead.
           
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          @nikirushka Depending on where you are: you could have a look for evergreen clematis, or just clematis in general, there are evergreen honeysuckle (well just about). Holobellia are evergreen scented and quite vigorous, mine is Holobellia coriacea, the RHS say H4 so hardy through most of the UK. Eccremocarpus (Chilean glory vine) (H3) easily grown from seed, orange flowers: once established probably better than H3; although a hard winter will keep it under ground until May/June, it will stay green through a mild winter. There is also Dicentra scandens (now Dactylicapnos) yellow flowering, hard winter will knock it back , but it generally recovers, grow from seed. Solanum laxum and S crispum and don't forget the variegated ivies.
          With a good selection the pallets will disappear forever beneath your palette of plants.
           
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            Oooh brilliant, thank you for the suggestions! That would be better.

            I don't mind looking at the pallets but a bit of greenery that the dogs can't trample would be nice!
             
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