Nice bush!

[Marc van Arc]

As a tribute to the former BLMC plant in Bathgate, I'd go for Leylandii too

[Jools]

Here it is. Note that this mornings snow has all melted.

Jools


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[Marc van Arc]

I don't know what you are going to plant in the end, but it is surely a good thing to see the house & garden again. Nienke nearly melted as well .

[dw1305]

Hi all,

. I've got something that looks like mini holly in the garden, it has small ~1cm2 dark green leaves and is flowering now with small clumped orange flowers. It is evergreen, anyone know what it might be?

It is Berberis darwinii.

Yew (Taxus baccata) is a great hedge or screen, you could grow the Flame flower (Tropaeolum speciosum) up it for a bit of autumnal colour, it is a classic Scottish garden combination and T. speciosum likes the cold.

It isn't an evergreen, but Rosa rugosa might be another possibility.

It looks like Osmanthus x burkwoodii won't be hardy with you, but you could try contacting the RBGE at Dawyck for a list of hardy plants <http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/dawyck>, it is the RBGE's cold garden (compared to Logan, Benmore, Edinburgh etc.) or Glendoick has "The Scottish Garden-plant Award "<http://www.glendoick.com/index.php?page ... lant-award>

cheers Darrel

[Jools]

I really like Tropaeolum, but I could find none, anywhere in the gardens around me (following Richards advice). However, I plan to plant some to see how they do in a less important project. In the end, I chose holly. Partially out of guilt for having to remove a misplaced holly tree of some age (that was either grown from random berry or planted by an idiot) and also because I know it will survive, and provides that balance between steady growth, security fence and attractiveness.

Some pics attached which will hopefully go some way to replay the advice offered.

Thanks chaps!

Jools

PS I actually wanted Yew to work; saw a hedge of it in Glasgow but it looked very slow growing. I don't also have any reference locally. So, have planted a few of them in a nice spot and may use them elsewhere.

[jac]

Look at that garden...and the fields outside it....
Could only wish to live like that... Very nice