Hello fountains of knowledge!
My garden has a brick wall and it's not doing so well. In one place, it's only being held up by a telegraph pole! Cracks were appearing and then some scrotes decided to knock the top of my wall off.
Here it is in streetview:
GL51 8AX - Google MapsAnother problem is that a lot of my garden is actually to the side of the house and with the current wall height (varies between 4 and 7 ft depending which end you're at), it's basically like a front garden with no privacy.
Anyhow, I'm thinking about replacing it with a hedge. I'm after the following characteristics:
- Security. I want to keep people from walking through the hedge to cut off the corner of the pavement.
- Safe. Next door is a primary school. Also want to keep them out of my garden!
- Sight lines. I'd like to actually be able to use the garden to the side without people being able to look in.
- Things that tweet. These would be good. There are cats locally though.
What would you guys recommend? What sort of cost am I looking for about 15meters of hedge? Also, how long would I be looking at to get a full size hedge do you think*?
*I'm guessing that I'll wait for the hedge to grow up then I'll take down the brick wall. How sensible is this?