One edge of our garden is shared with neighbours and has a combination of 6' wooden fence and short sections of hedge (leylandii -- erk!). The other two sides, one of which borders a road which sees quite a lot of traffic, are bounded by a waist-high wire fence.
It feels quite exposed, so we want to do something about it. I like the idea of a hardwood hedge, but that would need quite a lot of trees/shrubs and I have so far been unable to find the right sort of plants at a price we can afford.
Until now.
Enter a Somerset firm called Ashridge Trees who can provide industrial (or should that be agricultural) quantities of young trees from an alarming selection of species for what looks to me like great prices. I expect we'll be ordering a few dozen trees this year. The only problem is that it will take a few years for the hedge to turn into a hedge, but it means we can be surrounded by things like blackthorn, crab apple and wild roses. Nice...
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Sounds lovely.
Did you know that the names of the letters in the Irish alphabet are also tree names? You can actually spell out your names in the hedge!
http://www.csupomona.edu/
~jcclark/ogham/ogh-tree.html
Interesting. I think I'd heard of that at some point in the past. There are some lovely trees/plants in the list, though I don't think reeds would be much good in our hedge. :o)
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