Planting/design advice - what would you do?
Hi all
I'd like to canvas views on what to do with these mature hawthorns. I'm in the process of re-designing and re-planting our garden with a woodland-edge theme. We're lukcy to have a number of hawthorns already and they will mostly be remaining.
However, they are quite dominant and the layout does not look...right, currently for the size of the space. There is a gap between 4 and 5 which interrupts the flow and they are in danger of swamping other areas e.g. the young crab apple tree on the right hand side.
I've numbered them 1 to 5 in the photos.
How would you tackle these from a design perspective? It's a west facing wall in a fairly small garden. Current options are:
1. Remove 2 or 3, leaving a few trees with equal gaps in between (other plants can infill those gaps)
2. Add another between 4 and 5, though that could look a bit odd to have "hedging" along only 75% of the border
3. Leave them completely alone and work around them
4. leave just one or 2 and let them grow as feature trees (Maybe 2 and 4, or 3/5 only)
What would you do?! I've been trying to make my mind up for a long time....
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rachelmidlands
3 years agoI agree also. Remove number 5 and use something else to fill the back fence. It looks like you have training wires along the back fence for a climber? Are you trying to establish an ivy? If so then ivy won’t need wires as such as it will just cling to the fence but you could use the wires for something else as well. How about an evergreen clematis (there’s usually a clematis for any type of situation)
https://www.thorncroftclematis.co.uk/clematis/evergreen-clematis.html
In future, if other plants fill out the gap nicely, I’d also think of removing tree 4 and let the other hawthorns do their thing up the corner. They can get very big if you let them. You could also add a feature along the fence, I think a large birdhouse or dovecote would look perfect.
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