Hedges

Live hedges provide privacy, wind and dust protection. They can be successfully created from tall plants. It can be decorative shrubs, evergreen trees standing out even in the winter months. Green fence can become a real alternative to classic hedge and design element in the garden.

Blooming fence can combine several plant species. With the right choice, it can be achieved that some of them bloom in spring, others in the summer, and the rest were pleased with the autumn with their colorful fruits.

Please note! Live hedge has several advantages over a classic fence: it is stronger than, for example, wooden. However, the greatest superiority is their beauty.

The living fence can be used to protect plants from cold from the north, or provide a shadow to the plantings that love it. The disadvantage is that it will have to wait until it reaches the desired height, but the expectation is worth it.

It is necessary to determine the option of suitable plants to get a beautiful living fence. It is usually created from different shrubs and can be attractive if the plants are correctly chosen.

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When the device, such a hedge, most often choose plants, which create a dense green wall, attractive thick leaves and beautiful colors.

How to plant a live fence

When landing, the time is chosen when plants are not exposed to extreme weather conditions. Spring and autumn are suitable for creating flowering alive hedges. This is due to the fact that these periods usually do not have a strong heat or cold.

Additional information! To be easy to care for a living feed, you should use frost-resistant bushes. It should also be borne in mind that most shrubs are completely dissolved only for the second year after landing.

Distance between plants

It should be such that the flowering bushes do not interfere with each other’s growth. If you choose plants with the same height, care measures will be much easier.

When landing, the bushes are placed in a row at a distance from about 0.5 to 1.5 meters (the width depends on the plants selected):

  • higher about 1 m from each other;
  • Low: from 50 to 70 cm;
  • zigzag planted: 70 cm.

If plants land in a checker order, it will be very closed and a dense fence.

Please note!for small gardens, due to lack of space, one-row landing with small bushes is recommended. In large gardens, the multi-row fence looks very natural.

In the first row, small and very flowering trees are imprisoned. Depending on the location, the rows of raspberries, gooseberry or currant are suitable.

Live Fence Care

To prevent or reduce the appearance of wild weeds, you can lay out between rows of geotextiles. It makes sense to put the soil plants.

Trim

Live hedges should be cut once or twice a year, depending on the plant selected. Their growth should be free.

Trimming hedges

How to cut a living fence? Start from the fourth or fifth year regularly update plants. To do this, remove the old shoots as low as possible without affecting the young piglery. This will help them better develop.

Notice! In the multi-row landing, the front strip can be cropped in one year, and the rear next year to keep the sequence of trimming.

How to choose plants for living hedges. What can be planted as a living hedge

When choosing, it is important for what purpose it is intended. The following factors must be taken into account:

  • height;
  • flowers coloring;
  • compatibility with each other.

Most of the flowering shrubs dump the leaves in the fall, but there are also evergreen species that provide the garden privacy all year round.

One of the most popular blooming shrubs for the living hedge is a bellic chubble, which blooms in small white numerous flowers. During the flowering period, the bushes are completely covered with flowers similar to Jasmine, look very attractive. The plant prefers solar places and humus soils, but they can also cope with the half and less fertile soils. They are well tolerated drought and sufficiently resistant to low temperatures.

Bird Oats (Turkey Ordinary) grows very rapidly (up to 1 m per year) and soon separate the garden from the outside world. Some varieties can grow without haircuts more than 3 meters. Pretty frost resistant, withstands a short-term decrease in temperature to minus 30 ° C. Drought-resistant, grows on different types of soil,

Ivy is available in several options: from green to gold, and it is very easy to grow. It is an evergreen plant also well tolerate soils with low nutrients and various climatic conditions, so it can be used in living hedges almost anywhere.

Evergreen Crucanpan (Samshat) is a classic choice for a living hedge.

Sugit in low living hedges

If you allow him to grow freely, it will grow up to 6 meters in height, but the slice can save it at the desired height. From it you can cut various sculptures and forms.

Holly – evergreen holly with glossy and motley leaves. A variety of vapor varieties have all sorts of use, and it adapts to different conditions. Thanks to the spike on his leaves, it can also serve as a barrier from wild beasts. Shrub decorated with spring flowers, and in autumn and in winter in red berries.

Cyprus (coup) is growing up and very quickly (more than 50 cm per year). From it you can make a beautiful and elegant fence.

Thuja (Arborvitae) The most commonly used plant for living hedges is mainly due to its fast and tight growth. It practically does not require care and grows well in various soil and climatic conditions.

Juniperus (Juniperus) is a very hardy evergreen coniferous tree.

Juniper fence

Separate varieties have different size and shape (from dwarf to 10 meter plants). He lives hundreds of years and with proper haircut creates beautiful long-lived living hedges.

Forzing is a shrub that blooms in the spring. Before the appearance of leaves, from March to April, bright yellow flowers bloom on all branches. The shoots of the medium height shrub, are drummed arcuate. Forzition prefers lighter soils and more solar places. Cropped in the spring, after flowering, so that the plant forgets more flower kidney for the next year.

Deutzia Magnifica or Kolkwitzia Amabilis. Both shrubs are easily and rapidly grow, grow in height to 3 m.

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They are most beautiful during flowering in the late spring due to gentle pink flowers.

Budleia (Budleia Davidii) is suitable for dry and solar places with high calcium content in the soil. In the summer, in the form of a living hedge, a powerful bush is very effective. The plant is unpretentious and tolerates the haircut.

The leaves of the towsifolia are similar to the male. Like a samshet, she has dark green leaves of ovoid shape. Evergreen, blooming shrub reaches a maximum height of one meter. Long shoots slightly spiny and therefore are suitable not only as a beautiful hedge, but also protect against unwanted penetration into the garden. This live fence can also be trimmed very compact.

Waigela is an easy-to-leaving a flowering bush with funnel-shaped or bell-tired flowers that are formed immediately after flowering. Some varieties achieve a height of more than three meters, while others are just less than one meter. In favorable years, it can be re-blossoming in autumn.

For flowering hedge, you can choose curly plants. The most popular are Clematis with many varieties. Depending on the species, Clematis prefer more or less solar places and fertile, humid, slightly wet soils. Elegant plants are unpretentious, and usually enough frost resistant. They need a support, so they should be planted along a rigid high fence.

To grow a flowering living fence from different plants, you should pay attention to the same height and growth rate, so as not to suppress weaker plantings.