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6 flowering low hedges

If you choose your hedge plants well, you can have your bread buttered on both sides – lots of flowers in different seasons backed up by attractive, dense foliage on plants that can be given free reign for longer periods before you have to do some taming with the hedge clippers.

Key words

• – This means a natural low-growing height.• – This means bushy plants with a rounded shape that you can gently enhance by clipping after a flowering peak.• – This means plants that will not sport the ‘hacked’ look after pruning, and which will sprout new vigorous growth fast.• – This means blooms attracting wildlife while also pleasing the

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