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Calling all shrub experts
What would you suggest? I am moving to a house with a small garden with a 6ft fence at the bottom. I'm not a very good gardener and I want to grow something up against the fence (not a hedge),doesn't grow much higher than the 6ft so low maintenance but grows quicky to hide the fence,evergreen preferably,but attractive,any ideas?
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I have started doing growing different shrubs along my fence, although the shrubs need to grow a little higher yet. They have got contrasting leaf colours - a bay, a philadelphus with light-coloured leaves, a forsythia which looks great in spring, a holly bush, and I have kept a space where I am going to break up the line with a tree, so it doesn't look too regimental. I can't decide between a mediterranean pillar tree or a cherry tree so the blossom would look good in spring.
The holly bush is not very easy to maintain, though, and the others do need an annual trim, but that's not too bad in my view.
In the front garden I have misguidedly grown ivy to hide the wall...it is a nightmare to control and I wish I hadn't planted it!
The holly bush is not very easy to maintain, though, and the others do need an annual trim, but that's not too bad in my view.
In the front garden I have misguidedly grown ivy to hide the wall...it is a nightmare to control and I wish I hadn't planted it!
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