OK Gardening folk.
The back of the garden is a huge "privacy" hedge. It's one of those Cypress types of hedge that grows like billy-o. In front in the right hand corner used to have a horrid spiky bush and will soon be rid of the horrid spiky pine type tree in the corner of the garden (see picture). They overhang my stream and prevent me from doing any maintenance (yes I have a little stream which goes between two ponds!). Now these overgrown spiky monstrosities have been there long enough that I now have a "dead" hole in the hedge which needs to be screened off by something more attractive, less spiky and easier to maintain.
The meander of the stream means that it isn't a big corner and as you can see the previous spiky bush and tree knocked down the rockery edge that I will now be rebuilding!. The patch a new piece of greenery will (eventually) have to cover is approx 2m high by 2m across. I have just purchased a tester to try and work out what kind of soil I have. It's definitely not clay soil. It shows no clayness at all. It's more woodlandy. It balls up when wet but not when dry.
So - any ideas for attractive nature friendly and person friendly greenery which isn't too hard to maintain?
The back of the garden is a huge "privacy" hedge. It's one of those Cypress types of hedge that grows like billy-o. In front in the right hand corner used to have a horrid spiky bush and will soon be rid of the horrid spiky pine type tree in the corner of the garden (see picture). They overhang my stream and prevent me from doing any maintenance (yes I have a little stream which goes between two ponds!). Now these overgrown spiky monstrosities have been there long enough that I now have a "dead" hole in the hedge which needs to be screened off by something more attractive, less spiky and easier to maintain.
The meander of the stream means that it isn't a big corner and as you can see the previous spiky bush and tree knocked down the rockery edge that I will now be rebuilding!. The patch a new piece of greenery will (eventually) have to cover is approx 2m high by 2m across. I have just purchased a tester to try and work out what kind of soil I have. It's definitely not clay soil. It shows no clayness at all. It's more woodlandy. It balls up when wet but not when dry.
So - any ideas for attractive nature friendly and person friendly greenery which isn't too hard to maintain?