Cheap, Fast Growing, Attractive HEDGING suggestions please

[NomDePlume]

For my front garden. There is a HUGE protected pine tree (about 20m taller than my 3 storey hous !) in the garden which sucks up water like there's no tomorrow, so the hedging will have to be pretty good with dry/woodland type conditions. Thanks

[NomDePlume]

(I know it's dull)

[scotchick]

my husband has been looking into this for us, and has ordered hedging for our front but I can't remember what it was called! Will post later when he's back from work.

[Avalon]

What about laurel? Evergreen, big leaves.

[NomDePlume]

I had laurel in my old garden, but found it wasn't all that vigorous.

[Avalon]

Laurel - the common laurel that is - does well under trees, though.

How shady is it? I first thought of hawthorn or privet. Wasn't sure how happy hawthorn would be in shade. Privet's a greedy feeder so if you wanted to grow anything else in your front garden you might have a job. But it's pretty fast.

[NomDePlume]

It's dappled shade where the hedge would be, but the ground is very dry.

[southeastastra]

i've just got some bog standard golden privet i planted some last year and it is alreay about 3ft.

[NomDePlume]

ooooh, I wonder how good it is in dry spots ?

[Avalon]

See privet

Hope that works!

[NomDePlume]

Thanks for that avalon. I've bookmarked the page.

[southeastastra]

our garden is very dry and the earth is clay. the privet just seems to like it, the golden one looks quite pretty too. thread has reminded me to water it again though!

[Baladi]

Bamboo,excellent screen,hardy,no maintenance,choose a non-invasive one,theres hundreds.Black bamboo is my favourite.

[NomDePlume]

I really like Bamboo but it is not exactly cheap . I think we'll go for the privet.

[yeahinaminute]

Try some Thuja maybe ??

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[yeahinaminute]

I'll try that again

thuja