Hedging help.

[Sassandfaff1]

Hi.
I have wanted a hedge on my front garden for years. I'm a complete novice. I tried one year with online plants, the ones where you get 5 different plants that are all slightly different colours, but only 2 took and they haven't grown much bigger.
I bit the bullet and bought 9 shrubs from a garden centre yesterday. I am so happy with them......but I didn't think to look how high they grow!
I thought, it wouldn't matter because I can just lob the tops off to keep them equal; it didn't occur to me that some only grow to 40cm.
Could I have a slightly arc look hedge? So the highest in the middle, with the shortest at the end? Or would that be daft/hard work?
1 plant is 2m, the rest are all 1 m, except for 1 at 40cm.
Would you just ditch the 40cm one and keep the others at 1m?
The plants are different types of euronymus and the 40cm one is a hebe-bronze glow.

Tia.

Look up images of cloud hedges. You could have a mini one

Looked it up yam and it's doing serious anxiety damage to my OCD 'every needs to be symmetrical' nature.

Thanks for the suggestion though. 👍

LOL - sorry about that!! I've actually seen the one at Audley End and it is astonishing, and absolutely enormous.

I showed it to my husband and without missing a beat, he said "that won't do with your Feng Shui".
I don't follow Feng Shui, but I knew what he meant. 😄
Poor things spent nearly 20 years with me going, "but it's not in the middle, it's not straight, they're different heights, the pattern doesn't make sense, it's not symmetrical" 🤣

How high do you want it?

1 metre minimum. 2 metres would be too high.
I'm not averse to the idea of curving it, but I'm not a keen gardener, so I imagine that would take some maintenance?

Would you just ditch the 40cm one and keep the others at 1m? Yes. Or, rather, I'd plant the 40cm elsewhere. Maybe, for you, in front of the hedge, bang in the centre

(My father was the same - my bedroom ended up with two narrow windows one each side of a central chimney breast, couldn't possibly have built the house so the chimney breast was less central and I had a single full sized window! He got ejected from art class at school for his insistence on using a ruler to draw straight lines)

Makes me sound very anal .
I'd like to think I wasn't but I'm sure I wouldn't put up with me. I have an extremely quirky DD who doesn't even match her sock but I let her be.
I am going to plant the hebe's elsewhere and keep them all at 1m.
Thanks mere

And I would not buy a house with a chimney breast that wasn't central......it's just wrong.