Could i plant these at the bottom of the hedge?

Im currently edging the lawn so that there is a bed in front of the hedge, mainly to make it easier with mowing and keeping the grass in check but I would quite like to grow something in it to help cover some of the bareness at the bottom of the hedge.

its a privet hedge so obviously very dry at the base and my garden is southfacing and on sandy soil so quite hot and dry really



I have found these three plants that say they are drought tolerant and hardy and will grow only up to 50cms max so i wont make cutting the hedge difficult

Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Nana

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/26817...d&page=1&aliaspath=%2fplants%2fsearch-results

× Halimiocistus sahucii

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/99428...ndefined&aliaspath=%2fplants%2fsearch-results

Genista lydia

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/7732/...d&page=0&aliaspath=%2fplants%2fsearch-results


Do you think these could possibly work?

Btw im determined to grow something along the bottom of the hedge and i will find a plant that will work there.

 

I would say yes to all 3 , just prepare the soil and they will just get on with it

 

I have no experience of your three but I can personally recommend Dorycnium hirsutum.............




Read more here.

 

oooohh i like that long K think i might do a mix of the dwarf lavender cotton (if i can find some of the plants) some of the one you have suggested and some of them Genista lydia

that should provide lots of interesting textures and different flowers down there


spruce the soil under the hedge is beautiful i think it is the nicest soil in the garden its lovely but i think its mainly because under the hedge hasn't been cleared in years so lots of leaves and stuff have broken down there

 

I would dig a spade depth all along just to give them a chance to get settled in and in the process it will trim any roots that are straying into the border and wont do the hedge any harm

Spruce

 

Oooh thats what i am doing :-) great minds spruce ;-)

My hedge isnt straight so currently im digging a bed out the same width away from the hedge all the way a long but ita making the lawn look wobbly and not in a designed way

So once i have finished digging it out all the way a long im thinking of having the bed wider in place so that the lawn is a straight rectangle as the plants will hide the different widths of the bed im hoping