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and drowning The best time to plant a hedge is autumn when you can plant cheap, bare root whips.    They'll grow roots over the winter and will then need little maintenance apart form an anuual top dressing and a regular trim when they get big enough

for increasing garden diversity as it’s blossom encourages Butterflies, Bees and Birds to visit the garden.If you love butterflies, low maintenance gardening and a beautiful scent, then this is the plant for you. I bought mine from Floraselect.co.uk based

, though a lot of fruit is usually low hanging and is lost before harvesting (and when the wasps haven't invaded!). In some years, I've found branches snapped in half from their own weight but have rarely cut anything back. I'd love to restore this back

their nests in the spring  I'd go for the hydrangea if you want a fairly densely-covered green wall - its a lovely fresh green and the white flowers are long-lasting and beautiful. Thats the way to go if you want simple, clean and fresh. Its a low-maintenance

, but it really is. Wisteria sinensis is even bigger, maxing out at 100ft. To get flowers you need to prune wisteria quite carefully twice a year, so it isn't low maintenance. If you don't prune it well and keep tying it in for a few years until the woody

, I have had amazing results from both of mine, I've grown loads from seed. For me it's cold frames all the way.  From what you say that you want to grow,you can do this in a coldframe, and at a very low cost and they don't take up much space and very

15 ft min. I have thought of pyracantha on trellis. It needs to be low maintenance due to space restrictions. Any ideas please. I have grown a conifer in the corner but growing very slowly at the moment. HELP! Have you seen the topic below this one

a long list of shrubs to add, but thought I'd ask if there is one particular one that I should have. I want to attract birds, bees and bufferflies. I want to keep it  fairly low1-1.5m. Many thanks, Bill I would go for lavenders, easy maintenance

maintenance except for regular tying in of stems and pruuning of dead wood in spring.   I'm just wondering how lng the extension has been there. Have you had a whole summer with it there, so you can observe how it has affected the light? That much fencing

.  Agreed joe, cut back to old brown wood. The best thing of all would be to see if a friend or neighbour could help take them out, roots and all. If you can cut them down take them as low as you can and remove side branches too; as everyone is suggesting