Quick growing hedge??

[rob39]

Need a decent hedge which has all year round foliage and quick growing (not leylandii) to get to 6ft

[donnk]

box hedge!

[swinny]

Laurel

[Mick Dempsey]

Laurel +1

[rob39]

How about

BEECH, GREEN (Fagus sylvatica). Hedging Plants, Trees, Shrubs and Conifers.

 

Can buy at 4-5ft

Edited June 5, 2016 by rob39
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[Mick Dempsey]

Beech is nice, more prestigious, more maintenance than laurel needed. Not as good a screen. Bit picky about soil I think, hornbean is very similar.

[monkeybusiness]

Hornbeam would be my recommendation - grows faster than beech, tolerates poor soil, holds its leaves in winter, looks like a beech hedge. And you can buy it tall and cheap. We've successfully put it in to replace conifer hedges that we have winched out - it doesn't seem bothered by any ground conditions however poor.

[Darrin Turnbull]

Lawson's cypress 'Green Hedger'

[Mick Dempsey]

Hornbeam would be my recommendation - grows faster than beech, tolerates poor soil, holds its leaves in winter, looks like a beech hedge. And you can buy it tall and cheap. We've successfully put it in to replace conifer hedges that we have winched out - it doesn't seem bothered by any ground conditions however poor.

 

Agreed, just to clarify when I said hornbeam is similar I meant in appearance, you're right it's much less fussy about conditions. Where I come from in the Sussex Weald it has no problem with some poor clay soil.

[gooseflight]

Griselinia.

[Starscream]

Leylandii.. Boom