Hello
We want to plant a roughly 45-meter (150-foot) long area with plants that provide privacy screening. We are considering Thuja Smaragd. They should be relatively low-maintenance and offer good privacy.
Do you have any other suggestions?
We want to plant a roughly 45-meter (150-foot) long area with plants that provide privacy screening. We are considering Thuja Smaragd. They should be relatively low-maintenance and offer good privacy.
Do you have any other suggestions?
ypg schrieb:
You can eat everything if you want But not everything is digestible or even poisonous. It’s not just about cherry laurel!!! You can eat everything – just some only once
Müllerin schrieb:
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I’ll quote here:
“‘Planting cherry laurel hedges is a crime against nature,’ states NABU Managing Director Sönke Hofmann clearly, ‘even a concrete wall is more ecologically valuable; over time at least lichens and mosses grow on it.’ At best, birds might find some shelter among the leaves, but the plant cannot provide them with food.”
Clearly, the article is somewhat exaggerated – still, I personally think far too few people consider what they are actually planting in their garden and what impact it might have.The article is nonsense. My cherry laurel suffers just as much leaf damage, probably from the vine weevil, like any other plant, and ants feed on it as well, which is also noted on Wikipedia and I can observe here. Furthermore, I’ve never had any problems composting cherry laurel. NABU should be careful not to damage its reputation with such silly claims.
And who really cares about ecology in the garden? Constant mowing and immediate removal of leaves, exotic plants, fertilizers, and pesticides—and now poor cherry laurel is supposed to be blamed for everything?
By the way, every plant is toxic to some extent, and what’s deadly to one species may be breakfast for another. Rabbits, for example, can tolerate almost anything, including cherry laurel, arborvitae (thuja), and yew; squirrels even eat poisonous mushrooms, and so on.
