Maritime Mini-Hedges

Re Alessandra's friend's friend's problem! and her own
suggestions/questions:

Teucrium fruticans scorches and gets cut back quite badly with salt. I
wouldn't recommend it myself. Also it isn't a very good shape for a
hedge, wanting to sprawl and spread more than stand up straight.
Griselinia too big, surely? You'd spend your life clipping it to size.
Atriplex halimus would certainly be possible in terms of
size/hardiness though I've no experience of it as - and have never
even seen it used as - a hedge. Does it stand clipping?
One thing Alessandra didn't mention is Santolina. Absolutely salt-wind
resistant here in an exposed position where it regularly gets 100+mph
salt-laden gales. No damage at all. And individual plants have
survived in that position for 10+ years. All it needs is a haircut in
autumn and it quite naturally makes a hedge somewhere around a metre
tall. I mean the greyer sp rather than the greener one. Sorry - I
forget the name and am too idle/rushed to look it up. That would be my
own vote from my own experience.

It sounds like rather a fun thing to have to plan, if the
archaeologists can be made to see sense...

Tim
Tim Longville
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