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Friday 30th August, 2013

Whats behind that Hedge ???

Hi

Privacy for skinny dipping

I was looking out the office window yesterday and the day was all drizzly and grey but out there is our Azalea Kirin hedge looking in all its glory, in hot pink being a real bright spot in the garden. It just glowed and even prompted me put a pic up on facebook and write this weeks piece on hedges.

There is a whole raft of reasons why you would plant a hedge apart from the fact that I just love them. Privacy is probably one of the first that springs to mind and a good hedge avails privacy so you can skinny dip in you pool or so that you don't need  to run starkers to the Jacuzzi.  The next good reason is protection from the prevailing winds or just to create a room within a room.  They are useful for containing gardens or just creating an effect in the garden. Hedges add structure to the garden in winter when other plants have disappeared.

Now while a azalea hedge is not going to afford much privacy there are plenty of options that will. Camellias are timeless and make for a very hardy hedge. I adore the deciduous nature of hornbeams and believe it or not you would really have to look hard through them even when they have lost all their leaves, Mind you only the hardy would be skinny dipping at that time of year. Bay trees  are really good for hedging being hardy, classic green and well just totally suitable and of course can't  be peered through at all.

Then there is the popular Griselinias family and we have a couple of good grades here at the moment being one called Alpine and the shiny leaved Broadway mint.

You can almost use any plant for hedging or creating a border and if I recollect the original border plant around the office potager was silver thyme but these days we have box honeysuckle (lonicera Nitidia) which is a very quick growing hedge that gives a pretty sharp look.There are a few varieties of Buxus which make for good hedges and we sell the types that tend to be more resistant to that new buxus blight. Over the past few years we have grown other plants like Euonymus and there is a tidy Buxus like Holly (Ilex Crenata Hilleri) that substitutes really well and just loves being in the sun

For the creative types
Some pretty cool effects are made with different shades that different plants have and you can trim them to varying heights and have no garden.... LOL Teucrium is a really versatile plant and off course makes a good contrast to the likes of Buxus but its worth remembering that its got to be kept trimmed as it will grow out of shape fast.

Hedges are pretty easy to maintain really because all you have to do on the whole is keep them trimmed, usually twice a year after each of the growing flushes.

I'm always getting asked about hedges and what spacings and so I asked Chris  to put a piece together about hedges for me and have filed it under How To Click here and check it out as she deals with all that stuff about spacing and in a way that I had never thought of.......



Spuds are in and get that early crop in

Its been so warm and we have had some really good rain, its time to be getting some spuds in. Can't think that we'd be getting any frosts now, hardly had one all winter. There is a whole range to choose from including early and main crops and ones that come to maturity quickly. Follow the link to order Spuds

Harry couldnt resist some stunning Leucadendrons and a few Proteas to boot.  He also grabbed some beautiful lily of the Valley shrubs that were coming into flower.

Have a great weekend and a Fabulous Fathers day.

Cheers

Lloyd, Harry and the Wairere Team

Make it a Wairere weekend where even GNOMES know that gardening's not a drag

Wairere Nursery
826 Gordonton Road, RD 1, Hamilton
07 824 34 30
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2013 Newsletters...

New Year and Crepe Myrtles (8th February, 2013)

clivias and Roses (15th February, 2013)

Roses in the beginning (22nd February, 2013)

The Albas (1st March, 2013)

St Patricks day (9th March, 2013)

Cabbage Roses (15th March, 2013)

Hirsute Roses (22nd March, 2013)

Portland Roses (28th March, 2013)

Bourbon Roses (4th April, 2013)

Big boots to fill ... (11th April, 2013)

True Love and Large Hips (11th April, 2013)

Happy Birthday (10th May, 2013)

Tea Roses (17th May, 2013)

Hybrid Perpetuals (24th May, 2013)

Planting and caring for your new roses (29th May, 2013)

Polyanthas (31st May, 2013)

Hybrid Teas (8th June, 2013)

Floribundas (14th June, 2013)

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Different Coppers (29th June, 2013)

Pendula or weeping (5th July, 2013)

All in a days work (19th July, 2013)

Daphne (26th July, 2013)

Hydrangea Secrets (2nd August, 2013)

Maples high worked (9th August, 2013)

Magnificent Mags (16th August, 2013)

Mags Part two (23rd August, 2013)

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The fluffy stuff (12th September, 2013)

Fluff and Stuff (12th September, 2013)

PC Irises (20th September, 2013)

Beardless Irises (27th September, 2013)

Lavender (4th October, 2013)

The Ilams (12th October, 2013)

Maples (17th October, 2013)

Maples (18th October, 2013)

Maples Part two (24th October, 2013)

Maples Part three (1st November, 2013)

It's Rained (8th November, 2013)

Busy week (15th November, 2013)

Hydrangeas (29th November, 2013)

Its rained some more (6th December, 2013)

Who's pinching my Peaches (13th December, 2013)

Merry Xmas (24th December, 2013)

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