300m hedge help

i have been offered bareroot yew hedging, is this a good idea ? im not sure if it will work because its evergreen. what do you think?
thanks

 

Hi Shiney

No all stoped with this as well

I forgot about good old privet looked aftter properley and trided regulary can look stuning the varigated silver is posh
Spruce

 

i have been offered bareroot yew hedging, is this a good idea ? im not sure if it will work because its evergreen. what do you think?
the nursery is offering 120cm plants bareroot but some people have suggested that is too large for bareroot and others have suggested that you cant have evergreen bareroot at all.
thanks

 

most probably a dumb question, but have you had quotes to build a 6 foot high wall in similar colour bricks as to what the house has been built with?

most probably too costly, but if money is not an issue, and if it were my property, thats what I would prefer as opposed to a hedge ....

there are also concrete panels that are cheaper and look pretty good ... and come in all colours .... I don't have a clue what it costs here in the UK

Brick Wall Replacement - Image Gallery

 

i am a builder so i can price it for myself. i dont think you have had a look at the building, see the start of the thread. photos are available on google. 300m2 wall would cost about 20 grand and would be totally out of character with the setting. wall and metal railings was on the approved plan but i muct admit im very surprised to hear anyone suggesting a wall on a gardening forum

 

why would you prefer a wall to a hedge? please consider the setting of the building before replying. thanks

 

I'm not from the UK so perhaps look at things a bit differently .... in the long term, a hedge costs a lot of money when you factor the cost of hiring a gardener to prune it 3-4 times a year every year ... (and to be honest, I hate hedges and hate the wooden walls even more)

but must say, 300m long will be a costly excercise, even if planting a hedge with decent sized shrubs .... and then hire a qualified gardener 3-4 times a year to prune the hedge, and after 10 years, it may cost more than having a wall built in the 1st place



even a 6 foot wall with wrought iron gratings will look ok (this pic is the wrong one as the wall is too low, but its just to depict what I am saying):

 

yes i see what you mean but im building 12 flats in a listed building. the building is well over 200 years old and the building is within a country park with stunning gardens and a river and lakes and trees and forests. a wall would look wrong. the future owners will be paying for maintanence and this landscaping maintenance is a fraction of the total charge.

 

the wall with metal railings was the design approved but with smooth sandstone type blocks but the metal costs even more than the blocks, its just not going to look good.

 

With respect, you ask us to consider the setting of the building, but you ask us to find the pictures for ourselves. I googled the term you suggested, and google didn't find an exact match so it gave me loads of suggestions. I had no idea which one I was meant to look at so didn't bother.

It might help if you post a link to the photos rather than asking people to go and find them.

 

the problem then is that the hedge of 300 running meters will completely hide the house and not encompass the whole park setting (if the perimiter is square, that means each length of the hedge will only be 75 meters long

or am I missing something here?

here is a better pic of what I am trying to relay .... and if you use bricks the same style and colour as that of the house, this may look good? ... sorry for my ignorance

 

Eglinton Castle Stables, SCT Ref No 2810, Ayrshire (North)

 

Hands up - I forgot to get the photo of what I was trying to suggest. However, is this what we're looking at ?
(Kilwinning - Eglinton Country Park 09-05-2008 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!)

If so, a squared off hedge is right.

Personally, if I have the correct photo, you'll struggle to better a Laurel hedge. But that's not cheap.
What is used around the rest of the park?

 

the picture looks quite good. the park is 1000 acres so no hedge would totally encompass that
the hedge will be 75+75+75+75