Patchy Hedge
If you need privacy, it’s hard to beat a hedge.
Hedges also can add great design effects to otherwise bland and boring garden areas.
There are so many great hedging plants: Box hedge plants, gardenias, murrayas, lillypillies, photinias and many more. Most plant nurseries have a range of hedging plants for sale.
One problem with hedges is that sometimes one or two plants just don’t do well… What do you do? Well DON’T phaff around …. Take action or you will be irritated and unhappy about it for years.
- Dig 2 or 3 holes about 30cm deep around the root zones of the sick plants looking for dust dry soils. If you find them then get a soil wetting agent and mix it well into the soil. Repeat this every 6 months.
- Better still, dig up the sick plants and inspect their roots. Maybe replace the sick ones with new ones after the addition of a soil wetting agent.
The problem is always in the soil – so fix it!
Hooroo!