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| Cathryn |
HedgingWe need to order around 600 hedging plants. They have to become stockproof and do well in Welsh coastal weather. Jack has usually planted blackthorn, hawthorn, some dog rose which look beautiful, some assorted plum, a few hazel to try as I cannot think of any on the farm.Elder doesn't do well. He doesn't want beech and says it isn't stock proof. What else would you suggest that might be good for birds and perhaps provide fruit for us? |
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| Green Rosie |
Spindle, guelder rose, dogwood, crab-apple.
Not sure how tolerant thee are of your conditions though |
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| Cathryn |
They sound good although I don't think we will be adding crabapples. Feeling a bit swamped with apples at the moment.  We are buying them from a local grower who has grown trees from seeds taken from here. He will be know if they will do well and there is no harm in trying a few and seeing how well they do. We will be planting more next year.
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| Green Rosie |
But the birds love crab apples 
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| Cathryn |
Do you think spindle is poisonous? Some euonymous is. It has to be safe for lambs. | ||
| Green Rosie |
The berries are certainly poisonous to us, although not to birds. I don't know about the leaves or berries and lambs. | ||
| Gervase |
Round by 'ere it's gorse, gorse and sometimes a bit of gorse. | ||
| Cathryn |
Yeah and we are not buying any (Jack says more).
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| tahir |
cherry plums, sea buckthorn, hazel | ||
| Lorrainelovesplants |
sea buckthorn - viscious, pretty and edible | ||
| jamanda |
Doesn't it try to take over the world though? Does it have to be indigenous Cathryn? How about Darwin's barberry? |
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| Lorrainelovesplants |
yeah - but its for hedging - the thicker the better.... | ||
| jamanda |
Or plain old buckthorn - unrelated to sea buckthorn.
http://www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/product_10161.html "tolerant of chalky soils" suggests it may not do for you, though we have a couple of good specimens here. |
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| wellington womble |
Have a look at bucks nurseries - I know your not looking to buy, but they have oodles of hedging mixtures for ideas. | ||
| Ty Gwyn |
I`d stick with what you have,
Both Hawthorn and Blackthorn make good stock proof hedge`s,with some Hazle,and Dogrose,as a mixture I`ve the thorns in my arms to prove it. |
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| Cathryn |
There is a sea buckthorn hedge around a house in the middle of the farm.
We do need to stick with indigenous species and we will as Ty Gwyn suggests stick with what we know works but I was just wondering if we could add in a few that would be particularly tasty (hence the various plums that have been ordered). Thank you. We will talk to the nursery. It's at Hafod, near Ysbyty Ystwyth. Some of you might know it. Remote and lovely. |
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| wellington womble |
Have a look here edible hedging collection at the bottom of the page for ideas |