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Help needed with patchy hedge

  • 10-04-2015 4:24pm
    #1
    Linto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I need help with my hedge. Its currently very patchy and has big gaping holes in it. I'm not sure if I can plant anything underneath existing one?
    Any hedge types that you would suggest?
    Its my parents house and function is more important to them than form.
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  • #2
    lk67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    Linto wrote: »
    Hi,
    I need help with my hedge. Its currently very patchy and has big gaping holes in it. I'm not sure if I can plant anything underneath existing one?
    Any hedge types that you would suggest?
    Its my parents house and function is more important to them than form.

    It's hard to make out from the photos what type of hedge it is...

    You could try planting more of the same underneath it but you would need to get rid of the grass there and dig a decent hole, incorporate compost with the soil and keep the new plants well watered.

    What might be better if the existing hedge is flexible would be to try and manipulate or pull some of the existing branches down to fill the gaps...

    Is there a reason to fill in the gaps apart from aesthetics?


  • #3
    Linto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭Linto


    lk67 wrote: »
    It's hard to make out from the photos what type of hedge it is...

    You could try planting more of the same underneath it but you would need to get rid of the grass there and dig a decent hole, incorporate compost with the soil and keep the new plants well watered.

    What might be better if the existing hedge is flexible would be to try and manipulate or pull some of the existing branches down to fill the gaps...

    Is there a reason to fill in the gaps apart from aesthetics?
    I'm afraid I don't know what type it is either??
    Yes, we need to fill it for not only aesthetics but also as a border to a field with sheep and cattle the other side.


  • #4
    PeteFalk78
    Closed Accounts Posts: 762 ✭✭✭PeteFalk78


    Linto wrote: »
    Hi,
    I need help with my hedge. Its currently very patchy and has big gaping holes in it. I'm not sure if I can plant anything underneath existing one?
    Any hedge types that you would suggest?
    Its my parents house and function is more important to them than form.

    Pic 1 looks like a hedgerow with perhaps elders in it. They don't make a good hedge and you'll probably never be able to get them to fill in naturally. I see some straw and cuttings thrown at the bottom of the hedge in both pics - this won't help with any filling in that may happen naturally.

    I'll be inclined to pull it all out and put in something new - evengreen then laurel or deciduous then beech


  • #5
    lk67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭lk67


    Linto wrote: »
    I'm afraid I don't know what type it is either??
    Yes, we need to fill it for not only aesthetics but also as a border to a field with sheep and cattle the other side.

    The green piece looks like shrubby honeysuckle - Lonicera nitida - now that I've looked more closely! It's hard to tell if the rest was the same and has died or if it's a different hedging. If you take a closer snap of it it might clear that up...

    Regardless it's not going to be a simple job I think. A wire fence on the field side might be a start.


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