Hydrangea and peony hedge.
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Hedge: Hydrangeas? Roses? Hydrangeas and roses?
Comments (10)Personally, I find roses to be high maintenance plants. Though beautiful when grown well, they are subject to numerous diseases and bugs. And like most perennials/shrubs, yes they will look scruffy if dead flowers and leaves are not removed. (Which then brings you to the "fun" of dealing with the thorns.) This is simply what one accepts with any flowering shrub. Have you considered Hibiscus syriacus, aka Rose of Sharon? If you are unfamiliar with them, it is a specie of winter hardy hibiscus. Without trimming, and depending on the cultivar they can get 6-10feet tall and most of the ones I've seen get about 3 or 4 ft wide. (The one at my folks' place in northern Michigan has never gotten over 7 ft and they have never trimmed it.) They come in whites, pinks, reds, lavenders, "blues" (which really aren't) and bullseyes (white or pink with a red bullseye in the middle). My sis has a beautiful pure white one which also has never gotten over 7ft tall. Neither she nor my folks have found it to be at all bug or disease prone, and hummingbirds like them. (If you'd really like to do this on the cheap, and if you don't mind waiting a few years, you can grow them from seed. The one at my folks' is one I started from seed. It's been a long time, but if memory serves, it reached 4 or 5 ft by its 3rd or 4th year.) Flowers only last a day or two but healthy happy plants produce new flowers most of the summer into fall....See MoreHydrangea Hedge
Comments (13)Thank you hydrangeasnohio. I had to look up macrophylla because I didn't know what it was. Very pretty. I was hoping I could do pink or blue. I don't really care if it flops I just really don't want to look at my neighbors crap that they piled up against the chain link fence plus I really love hydrangeas....See MoreLimelight Hydrangea hedge Spacing
Comments (4)I planted 75 Limelights last year and the spacing was exactly 4' from center to center. this year, their edges are already overlapping. I expect that by next year, the outermost 30% of branches will have knitted together. I would go with 4', no closer. 5' would be OK too for economical reasons, but 6' may be too far if you want the hedge to connect within 2-3 years. In time, though, it should still connect, since Limelight is supposed to get to 8' wide, though maybe only in the outermost branches, and not densely, uniformly intergrowing....See MorePeony near limelight hydrangea?
Comments (3)Thanks smivies. Limelight once established though are actually pretty tough compared to the macrophylla variety and rarely need additional watering unless we're in a drought. Outside of that do you see any issues in terms of roots battling it out or anything else I might be missing to not try this out? Thanks!...See Moreostrich
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