Privet, Armillaria.......

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I have a dying Privet hedge, I know it's Armillaria and its on clay soil.

I'm considering replanting options but I'm sure I've not thought of all of them.

Don't really want Holly or Yew.

What would you plant?

[One Buck]

Hornbeam makes a lovey hedge and likes 'heavy' soils.

[tree-fancier123]

escalonia is nice and can be cut back hard, I think hedges a bit informal with a mixture can be quite charming e.g viburnum opulus, maybe euonymus alatus, one or two yew in there, whack it all in and wait and see

 

oh and those griselinia littoralis can look nice and elaeagnus x ebbingei, maybe that last one grows slow though, very pretty leaves, option of the variegated ones, or green that sometimes looks like its been done over with a silver spray paint

Edited March 29, 2015 by tree-fancier123

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I'd considered Eleagnus but it's a lot more expensive than many other plants.

Bay is nice (needs to be evergreen, not Cypress) and 6ft tall.

Armillaria resistance, obviously an advantage.

[Hiluxr]

If it was me i would go for Yew

 

Eleagnus makes a good hedge

 

what about Laurel or Photinia?

[Paul Cleaver]

If it was me i would go for Yew

 

Eleagnus makes a good hedge

 

what about Laurel or Photinia?

 

oooh Laurel

[Burgess]

Something rarer like Blue Spruce or Pittosporum?