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  1. Mollieanna

    Mollieanna Apprentice Gardener

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    Hello everyone. I have been gardening for many years but seem to buy the wrong plants and they die! I have a south facing garden with an uninterrupted view of a farm at the bottom of a field. I have a good old fashioned hedge about three feet tall that acts as a sort of windbreak. I want to plant some evergreen flowering shrubs for a touch of colour in front of the hedge. Any good old favourites or hardy suggestions please.
     
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      Good morning @Mollieanna and welcome to Gardeners Corner my friend:smile:

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        Welcome to the forum @Mollieanna - perhaps you can tell us your location and what sort of soil you have?
         
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          Welcome to Gardeners Corner Mollieanna. May I suggest you place your questions in the General Gardening Discussion forum as you will gain more replies there. :)
           
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            Hi Mollie, welcome to Gardener's Corner:thumbsup::snork:, don't worry we all have bought plants that we really loved only to find they didn't like the soil or site.:dunno::cry3:

            A suggested list of evergreen shrubs

            Arbutus
            Camellia [acid soil]
            Carpenteria
            Berberis
            Ceanothus
            Buxus
            Choisya
            Cotoneaster
            Escallonia
            Garrya
            Hebe
            Ilex
            Lonicera
            Mahonia
            Osmanthus
            Pieris
            Prunus
            Pyracanthus
            Rosmarinus
            Viburnum
             
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              Thanks for the list Armandii. I will study it hard. To answer Jwk. I am in East Anglia, my soil is excellent, I make my own compost, and even though I say it myself it is rather good. I don,t have any clay or chalk. I have friends who garden near Newmarket and their soil is almost white with chalk!!! They tend to grow a lot in pots.
               
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              I was getting at whether it was acidic or alkaline as many plants need one or the other.

              The following site let's you put in your postcode and you can see you soil type:

              http://www.landis.org.uk/soilscapes/#
               
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                Hi Mollieanna,

                Welcome :sign0016:
                I'm sure you'll find all the help you need here, there are experts in every field :)
                 
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                Hello @Mollieanna :sign0016:to the forum.
                I'm not far from Newmarket :dbgrtmb:.
                I'm sure with a bit of help you will have beautiful flowerbeds :blue thumb:
                I shall look forward to hearing about your progress & of course if you would like to share some photos we would love to see your garden too :blue thumb:
                 
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                Welcome! I hope you find many friends here.


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                Hello and welcome
                 
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                Hello welcome Mollieanna :) lovely bunch here. If you hAve acidic soil I highly suggest a camellia.. Tesco are selling small ones for mothers day!

                @Gwen.. Tea technician eh? I want that job.. so much better than tea maker.
                 
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                Hello all the GC 'ers from another GC NEWBIE:new:
                 
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                    Welcome to Gardeners Corner BeeHappy. :)
                     
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