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Sow gorse seed after scarifying the hard coat, using gritty compost and a cold frame. Patience rewards you with spiny, yellow-flowered shrubs for poor soils.
Salt winds and free-draining soil suit gorse, sea buckthorn and elder. Choose compact species that tolerate exposure and provide shelter for wildlife.
Mix hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel and field maple for a dense hedge. Berries, catkins and nesting sites support birds, insects and small mammals.
Cut back leggy gorse after flowering, removing old wood but avoiding hard pruning into bare stems. This keeps plants bushy and free-flowering.
Stack pruned branches between wooden stakes to create a dead hedge. It offers cover for frogs, hedgehogs and insects while recycling garden waste.
Gorse flowers yield a bright yellow dye and a delicate coconut scent. Use them fresh in potpourri, infused oils or natural fabric colouring.
Prepare a weed-free seedbed on low-fertility ground. Sow a native mix of ox-eye daisy, knapweed and yellow rattle for summer colour.
Plant nectar-rich species such as foxglove, betony and bird's-foot trefoil. Leave seed heads and hollow stems for overwintering insects and larvae.
Bend a low branch to the soil, pin it down and cover with compost. Roots form within a season, giving you free hedging plants.
Control gorse by cutting, grazing or pulling seedlings before they establish. In gardens, contain it with regular trimming and deep root barriers.
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Use deep pots with gritty, low-nutrient compost. Grow viper's bugloss, wild marjoram and salad burnet for colour and pollinators on a patio.
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3 min read
Oct 26,
2024 
