Hydrangea Hedge ? Zone 6
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Comments (8)judyny6, Was this the first winter for the nigra? If so it may have only been topkilled and you may get new growth in the spring. ...just a thought You should be able to get Fargesia robusta to 10'+ in a few years. Although, check with who you're purchasing it from. The 'Green Screen' variety is a tissue culture plant and some of these have growers that won't allow it to be divided and given away. If you go with one of the more cold hardy Phyllostachys, you could always top the culms to the desired height. Also, do some research on flowering so you know what to expect if this would happen with what you plant. Rick...See MoreBlue Princess Holly or Hicks Yew Best for 6 ft Hedge in Zone 5?
Comments (4)We live in the Mohawk Valley of Upstate NY. Our soil is clay. We have had two back-to-back, extremely cold winters in a row. We had a lot of temps in the negatives (like -15 and lower) and single digits this year. The average temperature this past winter in the month of February was 9 degrees (the temp never rose above freezing the whole month), and we had over 20 days below zero over the winter! Not to mention all the snow we received (which still hasn't melted). March felt like "normal" January weather with highs in the 20s and 30s, but today (April 2) it is supposed to finally get up past 50 to maybe even 60! I am on the fence about creating a hedge, but my wife doesn't want to put up a fence. We have a couple yews and hollies on our property that recently suffered winter burn. From what I have read online, they will likely recover. We are trying to figure out what would be the best cold hardy shrubs that we could use to create a hedge. We would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you....See MoreWatering Hydrangeas Zone 6b
Comments (1)Can't possibly tell you which is better as there are too many unknowns :-) You can't water to any kind of schedule - temperatures, natural rainfall, soil condtions, size of the plants when planted will all impact on the frequency and duration of any kind of watering system. So yeah, it is a bit of a trial and error process. When you do water, you want to water long enough and slowly enough so that the water fully hydrates the soil to the full depth of the rootball. And make sure the plants are well mulched to maintain soil moisture. While you are still testing out the system, check in a couple of days to see how damp the soil is even with the base of the rootball and make your decision when to water again based on that rather than some arbitrary period dictated by the product manufacturers btw, if these are larger shrubs to begin with, I'd probably go with the double emitters for each plant....See MoreLow evergreen hedge for zone 6a
Comments (16)anything that would fit the bill that might be low maintenance or require no to little pruning? ==>>> as to something that is no maintenance.. no.. there is nothing.. imo ... shrubs dont stop growing at some magical height.. nor grow so uniform that some might not need to be tamed a bit ... and to what low maintenance means ... im not sure ... imo.. a well grown shrub needs at a min.. yearly maintenance ... unless it is grown in the middle of the lawn and allowed to be itself over the decades .. if you are lining a walkway.. or some such.. they will all need to be pruned ... and i dont mean sheared.. i mean pruned for aesthetic reasons ... and that might mean one weekend a year.. you will need to prune and clean it all up .. lol .. often the cleanup is the bigger jobs ... learning how to prune is nbd ... no healthy plant dies from pruning.. so if you mess it up.. you fix it next year ... your best ideas would come.. if you included a pic of the area.. and a more precise definition of what you want to accomplish .. and a big city name never hurts ... zone alone usually doesnt help as much ... i would think inland NJ is a bit different than coastal NJ ... but i dont know.. ive never been there .... ken...See MoreJen Loo
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