Thuja Atrovirens Russian Vine or Bamboo as hedge?

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Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	16 Sep 2009 17:47
	all opinions gratefully received!! lol Hubby wants to put up pyrocanthus and suchlike.... ouch! Love Daff xxxxx
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	16 Sep 2009 18:38
	Hiya Joan, thank you... my main problem is that a neighbour has his caravan on my land... well, a goodly bit of it is... but is refusing to move it... and it will cost us thousands to make him through the courts.... we have taken legal advice... and because of how far it encroaches, we can actually legally fence or hedge him in, lol..... there are a lot of other issues going on here... but for now, I'd just like to edge him out..... hubby was going to plant bamboo underneath.... just to see if it pierced the floor... sigh why do things seem so difficult sometimes? Love Daff xxxx
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	16 Sep 2009 18:56
	Mmmm.... it would have been.... only I was too ill to play in the garden this spring just gone.... but we have a little bit of time to play... we have one more alternative that we are sure he will refuse...... but we must try that first... oh, and hubby has just discovered Russian vine, lolol ;¬)) Love Daff xxxxx
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 3,907 Send Message	Jean (Monmouth)	Report	16 Sep 2009 19:02
	Russian vine will need some support to start with, will then cover the offending caravan!
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	16 Sep 2009 19:13
	lol Jean.... I have just been reading up on it.... now, my neighbour is truly obnoxious, but I wouldn't wish that one on even him.... what a little thug that plant is!! Love Daff xxxxxx
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 28,517 Send Message	ButtercupFields	Report	16 Sep 2009 20:13
	Daff, Russian Vine took over my life, my neighbours, and the whole of my patio a few years ago! Six strong men had to hack their way through it! pmsl....Considering the circumstances, I would plant it if I were you:-)) XX BC
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	16 Sep 2009 20:30
	WMSL at BC.... and knowing my luck, there wouldn't be half a dozen strong men around to save me from the vine, lolol Do you think Sleeping Beauty was screened by it? What a swashbuckling little prince, that Charming was, lolol Love Daff xxxx
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 64,243 Send Message	AnninGlos	Report	16 Sep 2009 20:37
	Mile a minute they call it!!! No thorns though!!
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Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 11,773 Send Message	MrDaff	Report	16 Sep 2009 20:39
	lol Ann.... sounds like it doesn't need it.... it'd stangle you to death before you had time to bleed to death... even me, who still doesn't clot very well, lolol Love Daff, who rather likes hubby's bamboo idea, lolol!! xxxx Edit:- Strangle, even, lololol
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	16 Sep 2009 22:10
	My Ex-neighbour, who as a person I loved to bits!!! has now been moved away for some 4-5 years....... and the bloody legacy they left us was..............RUSSIAN bloody Vine AND Bamboo--------- the russian vine tries ( as has been said) to strangulate anything it come into contact with, and the Bamboo, in spite of the house being gutted by a fire STILL keeps coming up in my side of the fence, is there no easy way to eradicate this bamboo pest? my present neighbour has to keep digging it out........... Bob ps there is a comic tale about "Lost" camoflage nets, could you not hide the caravan under one of those?
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