Small Border Hedging

brown bear

HI

I have a raised deck which is about 30cm raised and i am looking for a suitable plant/hedgeshrub that i can plant around the edge and keep trimmed to about the 30cm mark.

bmaxi

Is this to screen the underside of the decking? I would go for Box.

Mylow

bmaxi wrote: »

Is this to screen the underside of the decking? I would go for Box.

+1 (Buxus)

Sonnenblumen

Box is nice, but expensive and very very slow, if on otherhand you'd like colour and a fast growing low <30 cm shrub, there are lots of other options, including :

Hebe Green Globe
Andromeda Blue Ice
Libanotis
Lavender Blueberry Ruffles
Euonymus japonica Extase
Perrynetta

bmaxi

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Box is nice, but expensive and very very slow, if on otherhand you'd like colour and a fast growing low <30 cm shrub, there are lots of other options, including :

Hebe Green Globe
Andromeda Blue Ice
Libanotis
Lavender Blueberry Ruffles
Euonymus japonica Extase
Perrynetta

While I'll agree Box is slow growing, it is not necessarily expensive. I bought a six pack, approx 15cm. tall, in Lidl for €3.99 not so long ago. Perfect plants.
Slightly off topic. I'm a big fan of the German multiples but one thing that does annoy me is the way they treat their plants, they never see a drop of water from the day they go on display and are left to wither and die. I don't understand the logic, if people don't buy healthy plants they are certainly not going to buy shrivelled ones, so at least take them off display and give them a decent burial. Rant over:)

brown bear

thanks, when you say slow gowing, how slow

Sonnenblumen

Box is perhaps one of the most commonly poorly planted hedges and being a slow grower (a few inches perhaps per year!) exacerbates results of the poor planting and spacing.

It is an excellent plant but to get impact requires a lot of plants, hence the expense. I would not consider 15cm plants as useable.