I need your help, I have the least green fingers ever but want to plant a couple of bushes in strategic positions, which will eventually dissuade intruders and also just block off an eye saw.
The first spot is sandy soil, has a brick wall running east-west and I want to plant something prickly at the end between it and a row of very large leylandii which run north-south (so its effectively in a SW facing corner), so it gets sun for a few hours in the afternoon but is mostly in shade. The gap is about 6ft wide.
Spot 2 is on a east-west wall that's north facing, its where I blocked off the courtyard, and I'd just like to cover it up so its not such an eye saw, same sandy soil and only gets a little sun in the early morning and late evening really. This one I don't mind if it isn't prickly but it wouldn't hurt, main thing is fast growing and to cover an area 12ft wide by 6ft tall This does already have honey suckle and ivy at one end and another creeping bush I can't id at the other end, would I be better trying to train across an already established bush?
Spot 3 I can't imagine anything growing in but I'll ask just in case, (not even nettles grow here) it is between a north-south wall and the north-south leylandii, it doesn't get sun. This does already have honey suckle and ivy at one end and another creeping bush I can't id at the other end, would I be better trying to train across an already established bush?
Ideally what ever goes in needs to be quick growing, or cheap to buy in already fair size plants. I don't even mind a horse safe weed as longs as it won't spread too much
The first spot is sandy soil, has a brick wall running east-west and I want to plant something prickly at the end between it and a row of very large leylandii which run north-south (so its effectively in a SW facing corner), so it gets sun for a few hours in the afternoon but is mostly in shade. The gap is about 6ft wide.
Spot 2 is on a east-west wall that's north facing, its where I blocked off the courtyard, and I'd just like to cover it up so its not such an eye saw, same sandy soil and only gets a little sun in the early morning and late evening really. This one I don't mind if it isn't prickly but it wouldn't hurt, main thing is fast growing and to cover an area 12ft wide by 6ft tall This does already have honey suckle and ivy at one end and another creeping bush I can't id at the other end, would I be better trying to train across an already established bush?
Spot 3 I can't imagine anything growing in but I'll ask just in case, (not even nettles grow here) it is between a north-south wall and the north-south leylandii, it doesn't get sun. This does already have honey suckle and ivy at one end and another creeping bush I can't id at the other end, would I be better trying to train across an already established bush?
Ideally what ever goes in needs to be quick growing, or cheap to buy in already fair size plants. I don't even mind a horse safe weed as longs as it won't spread too much