I heard what a mixed hedge is called, once, but didn't write it down. I haven't managed to find out since. There is a proper name for a hedge that is planted with a mix of shrubs rather than the reglar mass planting of the same thing.
Anyone know what it is?

Hedgerow.

Thanks Nan. Nice try but that wasn't it or I would have remembered.
It may have been a British term, something I heard ages ago.
Once in a while I search the web but no joy. Probably an old fashioned word.

This was a nice article that came up about real hedgerows. My hedge does harbour birds and insects but that is all in the city.
https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/co ... w-wildlife

A shrubbery.

MissS wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:27 pmA shrubbery.

Now you must bring us one. Ne!

Osage Orange ?

Sounds like my forest I live in and my yard.
Eclectic comes to mind.

[mention]Growing Coastal[/mention] .. I have no idea what name you are looking for and I went through a landscape design course. the only two names we used was formal or informal...

Oh, I WISH I could say what it is I heard so long ago. Some esoteric term no one would ever guess was connected to the garden that someone mentioned in a radio discussion. One of those not important things that haunts my mind once in a while. I'd thought that a gardening forum would be a good place to try asking.

I've got no Osange orange in mine but do have some Mexican mock orange. Osange orange with its hedge apples is interesting, now I've googled it. Never seen one.

Those osage orange "fruit" smells like perfume. We use them to keep spiders from building webs or entering the building. I have actually out them in the car as an air freshener.

Nice!

Nan6b wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:04 am

MissS wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:27 pmA shrubbery.

Now you must bring us one. Ne!

The same thing occurred to me when I saw the post.

mikestuff49 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:19 am

Nan6b wrote: ↑Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:04 am

MissS wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:27 pmA shrubbery.

Now you must bring us one. Ne!

The same thing occurred to me when I saw the post.

If you look it up, it actually is called a 'shrubbery'.

@MissS, I believe you are right. When I read the post, Monty Python and the Holy Grail immediately came to mind.

Topiary.

Isn't a topiary a bush that is trimmed into a shape?

mikestuff49 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:37 pm Isn't a topiary a bush that is trimmed into a shape?

Yes it is. Usually it is not even a hedge, just one tree or shrub.

Yes. Here's a little topiary. A bay laurel. Once I realized it could become monstrous I decided to do this to control it. The shorter one has damage at its base and is not expected to live for long. I've been saying that for 5 years now.
I allowed two of the basal shoots to grow into a new one, the two stems entwined for a new start.

It grows shaggy until August when I harvest and cut until it is round again. It doesn't complain. I cut the short one back really hard last year thinking that might help its demise but it grew back no problem.
Yes. Not in a hedge. One plant, a twin, that stands alone.


That's the bee filled Armadii clematis in white.

It's called a hedgerow in England. Thinking that it might be some olde English word, I tried Googling, but without any success . Hedgerows in England grow naturally and are left or sometimes trimmed as hedges to keep in cattle or just to delineate border of farms. They are lovely refuges for wild life . We lived opposite a dairy farm and I remember the hedgerow consisted of Hawthorne, Hazlenuts and various prunus species, interspersed with blackberries and many other wild trees and shrubs.

Linda