A client has requested a quick growing hedge along the front of her fence. SHe lives in Strathfield NSW.
Im stuffed for ideas?
All i can come up with is a lilly ply known as (Neighbours be gone)
Any ideas???
A client has requested a quick growing hedge along the front of her fence. SHe lives in Strathfield NSW.
Im stuffed for ideas?
All i can come up with is a lilly ply known as (Neighbours be gone)
Any ideas???
Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ
How tall does she want the hedge to be?
~ Joanne ~
I like hedges but fast growing = high maintenance (good for us though) but is she sure that's what she wants.
If she wants a good blockout for privacy you could use large or small leaf hedges as long as the internode spaces are short. Things like the Pittosporum Screenmaster or Photinia glabra ‘Rubra’. Murrayas are another.
They'll get to size in a couple of years but will need constant maintenance.
She wants the hedge to be around the 2 meter height. ANd evergreen.
I just found acumen smithil is a perfect one....
And of course... Ill be trimming it back
Everything looks good with a haircut.... ɐuıɥɔ ɯoɹɟ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sʇɐɥʇ
Pittosporum
Plumbago
Murraya
The lilly pilly you are thinking of is Acmena Smithii 'minor' (dwarf lilly pilly) and it would do well too
Fast growing means they stay fast growing so you would have plenty of ongoing hedging work to do for her
~ Joanne ~
Make sure it's Acmena smithii 'minor' ..
2 - 4 metres vs 8 metres for plain old smithii.
Another nice one that I'm thinking about to use here to replace an old small-leaf privet hedge is Syzygium Hinterland Gold - very nice shrub.
+1 for the new pittosporums like Screenmaster - v fast growers, ant tough as old boots
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Just make sure the soil is free draining for the Screenmasters. They can tolerate wet but not waterlogged soil.
One of my customers has some that are about 6 - 7 years old now and from that age on they seem to have a nasty habit of just up and dying. Out of one row of about ten trees about five have died in the last two years.
She has another row that are only three years old and all still very very healthy.
yeah syzagenms or lily pillies are the go but they still take a while
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Hibiscus is another good one they grow quite fast
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These are the ones that are only three years old. I have to take about 4 ft off the height soon.
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Yeah, I had this happen to heaps of my clients over the years. They just randomly drop dead one by one. I actually spoke to one of the growers direct and he said they hate being continuously wet, and they also hate their roots being disturbed.
I would go for the dwarf Acmena as well. Be careful of the Syzygiums as most of them will always be covered in pimple psyllids. Some claim to be resistant but after trying some of these and found them to still be the same as the othres, I just scrapped them altogether.
spray with confidor for the psyllids
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Of the lilli pilli's which I have planted I think the syzygium australe 'resilience' is my favorite. No problem with psyllids and the foliage and fruit are very attractive. Depends how much margin though, luehmanniis I can buy for $8 and sell for $20 for 200mm. resilience 300mm cost me $33 and sell for $45. They're all good. Lilli pilli's seem to take a season to establish, then they really take off.
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As a landscaper, the options are a plenty. There is a variety of Lilly Philly out now call the Aussie Boomer. Grows to about 2.5 m by 2m with. As a rough guide though the distance you plant them apart is the width you would like them to grow. Trim the tops and they will grow wider, trim the sides and they will grow taller!
Other options are the Fiji Fire, Aussie Compacts, Hinterland Gold, Vibernum (beautiful glossy green leave).
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