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Marie Staunton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
259 total appearances

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The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

then you will find that they'll get out of control.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

And they tend to get quite wide as well.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

So, you know, if space is an issue, if you have a small garden, but you want kind of a hedge going around it and space is an issue, then you don't want something as robust as a Leyland cypress.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

You could consider what are called pleached trees.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

So, pleached trees, for anybody who doesn't know what they are, it's on one stem.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

And then at the top, they're kind of framed on a bamboo kind of cane system.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

And they almost look like a big square lollipop.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

That's the best kind of description I can give.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

They don't go wild because they're already on a kind of a frame.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

So you keep that frame in check.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

That's how it works.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

So most walls would be kind of eight foot, ten foot.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

And these trees would have a leg or a stem roughly kind of eight foot.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

And then you would have the canopy then on top.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

But it's like a sail.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

So they would have to be staked.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

And it's really important that they are staked because they act like a sail.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

So they will take the wind, but you don't want them kind of rocking out of where you've planted them.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

So they need to be staked.

The Claire Byrne Show
Gardening: Screening plants

And it's a double, it's kind of a double stake with a,