Breaking Through, Travelling On

SueP19

We have a Leylandii hedge at the back boundary, grows very quickly, inexpensive to start and makes a great dense hedge in a few years

You do need to keep it trimmed though

edinburgher

We are facing costs of £900 to remove an abortive Leylandii hedge that was left by the last owners, so no thanks

Darpett

Hi Ed,

h e d g e s d i r e c t .co.uk do quite good bulk buy deals and having bought from them the quality was good for our native hedge.

I guess it's what you want? There is traditional stuff like hazel and native hedging or there is hebe or cotoneaster (which have the benefit of being pretty and having berries in winter). They do have a number you can call for more info if you aren't sure what is best (although I have never rung them) as well as the usual e-mail.

Karmacat

Ouchie! I'm with Ed about the leylandii, sorry Sue! As a supporter of being kind to the environment, they're a complete no-no, and they're wildly inappropriate for ordinary gardens, I think. I have some a few feet away from my living room window, and thankfully the neighbour keeps them trimmed to less than ten feet high, but I worry, I do

Ed, sorry you've got that added cost to get them out


Darpett! Thanks for that name - they look great, and I'm a big fan of bulk buying, it can make a decent run of hedging plants a lot more affordable. Beech is good - cotoneaster is lurvely, I used to have cotoneaster at my previous house, and now I have a volunteer from the soil there Bees absolutely adore cotoneaster.

I wouldn't use cherry laurel - they grow not much slower than leylandii, and I *believe* they aren't that good for the native ecology, not many insects make it their home.

SueP19

edinburgher wrote: »

We are facing costs of £900 to remove an abortive Leylandii hedge that was left by the last owners, so no thanks

Wow £900, worth buying a chainsaw and doing it yourself at that cost

They have to be kept in trim-100%, ours are about 8 feet and OH doesn't let them go above that.

We wished we had done the back at the side at the time too and were only saying the other day we will have to do it this year

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

But I bet you all remember that phrase, "be careful what you wish for": that post that I wrote, on the 4th, is the last time I was online, or had access to my landline - something funny happened to my phone wire at the nearest telegraph pole :eek:

I know what you mean - we've just had a small internet kerfuffle. I haven't used the laptop for a couple of days, and when I put it on this afternoon, it wouldn't connect to the internet. It could see the network, but wouldn't go on it


Other devices were connecting ok, so we thought it had to be the computer..... But after a load of rebooting and fiddling around, it still wouldn't connect. So we switched the router off and on..... and blow me down, it worked fine after than

Karmacat wrote: »

Right, I have a supermarket delivery soon after midday ... and the sun is out after some *serious* rain. I've just signed up for a webinar on writing for kindle, and yesterday I finished a splendiferous novel that calls itself choc lit - someone's used a combination of Richard Sharpe and Mal Reynolds :happylove as her hero, so it isn't quite as "choccy" as it might have been, but all the better for that :heartpuls :j

Today is financial admin day - tax declaration, invoice payment, that sort of thing, and a bit of chopping things up to fit into the bin. No pulsing hearts today then :rotfl:

Oddly enough, I've just started the first Sharpe novel. A couple of them were Kindle deals of the day, so I thought I'd try him out. He's just enduring a very unpleasant flogging!
:eek:


I quite like a 'choc lit' from time to time, they are not too demanding and very easy to read

Karmacat

SueP19 wrote: »

Wow £900, worth buying a chainsaw and doing it yourself at that cost

They have to be kept in trim-100%, ours are about 8 feet and OH doesn't let them go above that.

We wished we had done the back at the side at the time too and were only saying the other day we will have to do it this year

I guess if they work for you, Sue, then they do! For £900, I suspect Ed's job may include stump grinding, and several trips to the tip, the trunks can end up huge if left.

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Oddly enough, I've just started the first Sharpe novel. A couple of them were Kindle deals of the day, so I thought I'd try him out. He's just enduring a very unpleasant flogging!
:eek:

I quite like a 'choc lit' from time to time, they are not too demanding and very easy to read

I bet for the first one, Bernard Cornwell was writing it for the blokes - not till later he realised he had so many women adoring Sharpe :j

I often get criticised in the family for not reading modern fiction - Kingsley Amis' wife, wotsername ... I love Doris Lessing, but she's the exception, the only other modern authors I read are SF, and not *too* modern even there so when I find one I actually like, it's a case of Haul Out The Flags :rotfl:

I haven't been able to settle to much financial admin just done a bit. When I gave up, I went out and got rid of *another* binbag of waste from the front border - its hard to believe how much crap was there lots of old stems turning to dust all over me, so I washed my hair quick. And I may have found some fruit I froze last autumn, just boiled it all up, and straining it to make a savoury fruit jelly :rotfl:

A varied life in some ways, and tis mine own :rotfl:

Karmacat

I've been on here for half an hour or so ... I'm trying not to do too much physical huffing and puffing this morning, as my Friday is now my Busy Wednesday, temporarily, and I slept badly Still got to do that finance admin though, the site admin peeps in France need to be paid today.

SueP19

Karmacat wrote: »

I guess if they work for you, Sue, then they do! For £900, I suspect Ed's job may include stump grinding, and several trips to the tip, the trunks can end up huge if left.


I bet for the first one, Bernard Cornwell was writing it for the blokes - not till later he realised he had so many women adoring Sharpe :j

I often get criticised in the family for not reading modern fiction - Kingsley Amis' wife, wotsername ... I love Doris Lessing, but she's the exception, the only other modern authors I read are SF, and not *too* modern even there so when I find one I actually like, it's a case of Haul Out The Flags :rotfl:

I haven't been able to settle to much financial admin just done a bit. When I gave up, I went out and got rid of *another* binbag of waste from the front border - its hard to believe how much crap was there lots of old stems turning to dust all over me, so I washed my hair quick. And I may have found some fruit I froze last autumn, just boiled it all up, and straining it to make a savoury fruit jelly :rotfl:

A varied life in some ways, and tis mine own :rotfl:

I have the box set......................luvvv Mr Bean, although I am told they feminised the tv productions for us ladies

As for hedges we live in middle nowhere have a garden big enough to just "drop" a tree and have an open fire, so it does make life a lot easier.

A few years ago we dropped a 30ft willow so be wary of those too, blooming thing is now about 20ft again just from the stump :eek:

Karmacat

I adore Sean Bean/Richard Sharpe :j:j:j glad you do too :j

Lovely to be out in the middle of nowhere, as you say - I'm in a (tiny to me) town of 25,000 or so, and our gardens are normal tiny suburban, 35' long or so - but part of next door's intrusiveness is that they regularly burn stuff in their garden, only a few feet from our wooden fence :eek: I really don't like it!

I have an ash tree three feet from my house that a neighbour cut down for me (on my property) and I thought I killed the stump, but not well enough - its been sprouting while I've been ill, its now about 15' high again :eek: I've sawn away all the little bits, and now its just the main bit, which is already about five inches in diameter! Will do that next week.

Felt very rough last night, from doing too-much-work-for-me, but had a lovely natter with sister this morning, online natter with that author friend of mine, plus an old friend from mse (the sheepy one :j ) and even pottered into my local town centre. The aim was to buy some pasta bowls, I've tried twice with supermarket deliveries now, but it doesn't happen. I need them big enough for pasta, and small enough to stand upright in the dishwasher - I'm seriously considering going to another town to Wilko!

So life is good again :beer: