Please help me buy some flowering hedges.

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Ideally fully grown would be 3 meters. I would like it to have flowers and I am prepared to pay a premium to get as near to fully grown as possible rather than the 9cm pots I seem to be finding.

Escallonia is a lovely flowering hedge. Several varieties, with large and small flowers.

Thank you. I'll start a list. I hate being overlooked . 🌲 🌳🌲🌳

You could put flowering climbers through a hedge too.

I've seen fuchsia work as a hedge.

We bought from hedges direct and they were really good www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Hedging-By-Species.html

Mexican Orange Blossom has a long flowering season.
Combinations of forsythia and flowering currant can be effective.
Blackthorn for early spring colour.
Privet is always reliable.

Thank you. Seems very few places sell anything bigger than a few centimetres

Weigela looks nice in a hedge, we have a variegated version in ours.

A friend has a Weigela and it is very pretty. Dh not convinced it will grow tall enough. I'm just sad at the thought of a summer where I feel over looked and now the neighbours are so happy the trees have gone they are having very loud and very frequent gatherings. When my children were small I would make them keep the noise down in the garden to be considerate.

I would plant something that suits the location as a hedge then add flowering plants to it. A climbing hydrangea would be lovely!

www.architecturalplants.com/plants/search/ZmVhdHVyZT00Mg..
I’ve got the Hebe Parviflora.

It survived being planted in a hot summer, two consecutive snowy winters, eaten back to the ground by deer in those bad winters. I’m on a north facing hill so get a lot of wind and I still haven’t killed it.

Just cut it back to about 5ft.

Looks good. Near indestructible.

You need to look on line, however very large plants are very expensive. You could get hawthorn, cheap, native plant, that flowers in spring and has berries for birds. Also grows quickly and is prickly.

Weiglas get big, but it takes time. Holy is evergreen and again very prickly

I have seen lilac hedges in my area, they’re relatively fast growing but you have to keep on top of pruning.

Thanks again.

We went to four garden centres today. We bought nothing. We've prepared the ground and will go out tomorrow. I thought we'd cracked it when the first thing I saw was so beautiful and affordable and then dh pointed it out was a tree not a hedge. He also had issues with the next two things I liked but I think he knows he better be open tomorrow. I'm not waiting until November !

Red Robins are spectacular this year wrt flowering. I’ve seen some hedges which alternate the Red Robin & Laurel bushes. (I’m considering this for my back fence, interspersed with a pyracantha or two- just to deter the boy opposite from climbing over our fence to escape the police. )

Ceanothus!

Pyracantha are vicious. Mind you we saw some roses yesterday with the biggest thorns I have ever seen.

More garden centres today once dh is up and doggy has been walked.

You're unlikely to get either the size or number you will need for a hedge at a garden centre. I'm sorry, this is not an instant fix.
You need to look at hedging nurseries such as Hopes Grove, who sell lots of varieties at all sizes. I'd go for something like Photinia as its evergreen, and plant it double deep so it will thicken up more quickly. But this might mean you need 4 for every metre, depending on size, that could be expensive so better to order a specific deal from a specialist nursery than buy inidividual plants from a local garden centre.

We've been to hedging places as well as garden centres. I just put GC as that's what I'm used too.

We are planning on 3+ different types rather than 10 of one plant so should be play for variety. We also know we may have to wait and get delivery in the autumn with plants with more height.

Thank you. 🌲

I like red robins for hedging. Fast growing, flowers and red leaves too.weve got a lovely hedge of them.

Guelder rose is a good viburnum for hedging, but it's deciduous. You might prefer mostly evergreen plants. What plants did you like that he rejected?

I've used this place before - won't work for you as they I think just sell small plants but they have some nice ideas for "interesting" hedge plants.

www.hedging.co.uk/acatalog/Index_Hedge_Collections_2.html

We have a Forsythia hedge (planted by previous owner) and it is stunning but only for 4 weeks in v early spring when you're not out in the garden much. Do you want flowers in all year or in a particular season? Do you want evergreen or is deciduous ok?

I was going to suggest escallonia as well. It is used as hedging on Sark, and is very pretty in the summer.

If you have the money I'd go for a camellia hedge. They are absolutely stunning,

I would personally avoid blackthorn as the thorns are vicious and scratches always go "septic" on me - I think there's an irritant in the bark.
Your hedge will take a few years to get to the height you want, whatever it is- is there a reason you don't want to put in a fence (guessing there may already be one that's just too low?) However if you installed a trellis you could get climbers up it within months not years.( though if your neighbours have the sunny side of the boundary they will probably get more of the flowers

Final thought: hedges usually need trimming unless you have a lot of space, and timing the cuts to ensure flowers next year too will be tricky, especially if your mixture flowers at different times of year. Honeysuckle and climbing roses in amongst the hedge can help here!