{"id":10259,"date":"2018-07-06T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10259"},"modified":"2018-07-26T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:00:29","slug":"daily_1293_-_hedge_planted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/daily_1293_-_hedge_planted\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1293 &#8211; hedge, planted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1293_hedge_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1293_hedge_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nWell, now they&#8217;re all in the ground, including the half-dead ones. Although I ended up throwing out about half of the bare-rooted Spireas that looked completely dead, and buying replacements (potted!) from a nearby garden centre at about four times the price.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Adrian and Ingrid built &#8220;bj\u00f6rkspirea kingdom&#8221; from all the black plastic flowerpots, which is why there are pots lying around everywhere in the photos.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been calling this a hedge but what I have in mind is not a traditional hedge, i.e. a straight line of identical bushes. And definitely not a clipped hedge. This is going to be a mixed flowering hedge, with multiple species, wider in some places and narrower in others. In my mind I have a vision of natural, undulating shapes and lines, and a variety of leaf and flower, texture and colour. Like most of the rest of the garden.<\/p>\n<p>I was aiming for a hedge of medium height, waist-high or a bit more, until I realized that there are regulations about hedges next to street crossings. Which appears rather obvious, now that I think about it. Most people around here seem to ignore the regulations, and there are many places where hedges have me fuming about bad visibility. I will be a good member of society and try not to add to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re limited to a height of 80 cm within 10 metres of the crossing, which, taken strictly, would cover most of the planned hedge except for a few metres nearest the entrance stairs. But I&#8217;m going to interpret this limit a bit loosely and dot the hedge with some slightly taller bushes here and there, which might reach a metre in height. Since this won&#8217;t be a uniform hedge and there will be gaps between the taller bushes, I&#8217;m hoping that they won&#8217;t hinder much. And I also have room for a bunch of taller bushes near the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order (since they&#8217;re mostly mixed up anyway):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nSpirea cinerea &#8220;Grefsheim&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nRibes sanguineum &#8220;King Edward VII&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nWeigela florida &#8220;Alexandra&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSpirea betulifolia &#8220;Tor&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPotentilla fruticosa &#8220;Pink Beauty&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSpirea japonica &#8220;Froebelii&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nMahonia aquifolium &#8220;Maqu&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nAronia melanocarpa &#8220;Hugin&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>\nViburnum bodnantense &#8220;Charles Lamont&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now they&#8217;re all in the ground, including the half-dead ones. Although I ended up throwing out about half of the bare-rooted Spireas that looked completely dead, and buying replacements (potted!) from a nearby garden centre at about four times the price. Meanwhile Adrian and Ingrid built &#8220;bj\u00f6rkspirea kingdom&#8221; from all the black plastic flowerpots, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10259\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}