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NEW PAVING AND BRICK BOUNDARY WALL
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| Josie 2005-10-17, 12:21 am |
| Can anyone help?
I'm concerned about shrubs roots damaging a newly paved drive and new
brick boundary wall. Can anyone recommend a few safe shrubs and perhaps
some planting distances?
Many thanks, Joe
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| Chris Hogg 2005-10-21, 2:21 pm |
| On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:51:38 GMT, Josie <Spam_Trap@ST.farrugia.org.uk>
wrote:
>Can anyone help?
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>I'm concerned about shrubs roots damaging a newly paved drive and new
>brick boundary wall. Can anyone recommend a few safe shrubs and perhaps
>some planting distances?
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>Many thanks, Joe
As you haven't yet had any replies, here's my hap'orth. In general,
it's tree roots that cause serious problems with drives, wall
foundations etc. Most small to medium sized shrubs (say up to 6ft
high) won't cause any problems. As a rough guide, plant them expecting
as much spread as the eventual height. Ie if the shrub is going to
reach 4ft high, anticipate roughly a 4ft spread, and plant 2ft from
the edge of the drive or in front of the wall. Another generality is
that root-spread is roughly the same as that of the top growth, so the
above distances are also OK on that basis.
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Chris
E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net
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| Josie 2005-10-30, 11:21 pm |
| Message from Chris Hogg <me@privacy.net> on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 18:11:22
Re: NEW PAVING AND BRICK BOUNDARY WALL:
>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:51:38 GMT, Josie <Spam_Trap@ST.farrugia.org.uk>
>wrote:
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>As you haven't yet had any replies, here's my hap'orth. In general,
>it's tree roots that cause serious problems with drives, wall
>foundations etc. Most small to medium sized shrubs (say up to 6ft
>high) won't cause any problems. As a rough guide, plant them expecting
>as much spread as the eventual height. Ie if the shrub is going to
>reach 4ft high, anticipate roughly a 4ft spread, and plant 2ft from
>the edge of the drive or in front of the wall. Another generality is
>that root-spread is roughly the same as that of the top growth, so the
>above distances are also OK on that basis.
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Many thanks, very helpful.
Regards, Joe
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