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    Apart from raspberries and blackberries does anyone have a suggestion for a suitable hedging plant (fruiting if possible, preferably to make wine), for the length of an allotment. The hedge will need to be 4-6 foot high to shield my hens from people!

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    I am hoping to try gages and crab apples and just keep them trimmed like a hedge. Don't know quite if it will work but it will be more decorative than as the actual barrier (there will be a fence too). I also have some elder cuttings but at the moment all the plants are in big pots until the new fence gets done.

    Good luck with your fedge.
    Happy Gardening,
    Shirley

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    • #3
      I think one of the problems you have is the height of 4-6 feet. It is possible to train a tree in this height but will not make a very good hedge. So you are then left with the soft fruits, chioce of blackberry, loganberry, tayberry etc etc.

      My choice if you can allow the hedge to be 6-8 feet is the Strawberry Tree or Arbutus Unedo. Anyway have found a link at http://www.pfaf.org/leaflets/straw_tree.php to save me describing it!
      Geordie

      Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure


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      • #4
        We aren't allowed to plant fruit bushes within 5 ft or so of our boundary: do check your rules. You won't want to pull them all up again!
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Many thanks two sheds I will check the rules.

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