A hedge is an effective element of garden design. It serves to protect against dust and noise, beautifully emphasizing the bends of the tracks. The hedge looks always more attractive than just a fence. And if the fence is not very beautiful, then it will perfectly hide it from prying eyes.
How to pick up bushes for hedges?
You decided to have a hedge on your site, but do not know how to do it? First you need to decide what will be your hedge: grow freely or you will form it. In the household plots the second option is more common. All hedges vary in height:
- High, with a height of more than two meters;
- medium, from half a meter to two meters in height;
- Low, or curbs less than half a meter high.
Free-growing hedges are formed most often from flowering and ornamental shrubs or trees. For such hedges pick the following bushes: lilac, honeysuckle, chubushnik, hydrangea tree, quince Japanese, almonds. You can also use hawthorn, snow leopard and elderberry. The best option is to create a hedge of plants of different heights, then it will never be denuded.
To create hedges up to three meters high, trees of lime or hornbeam are planted. They have a dense, relatively easily formed crown, so they are considered one of the best tree species for such a landscape solution. In addition to these plants, maple, mulberry, and ilm are rough to create tall hedges.
To form a hedge from evergreen plants, the most suitable are:
- spruce, loves moist soils, shade-tolerant;
- yew berry, very durable planting material, although not cheap, loves fertile and moist soils;
- The western part is most often used in garden design;
- juniper is an ordinary, drought-resistant species from evergreen plants.
To create hedges of medium height, a wide variety of bushes are used: black-chested cotoneaster, tavolga, common herring, red and white, and many others. Sometimes you need to create a prickly hedge. Suitable for these purposes are shrubs such as common barberry, narrow-leaved and pyracanthus.
Low live decorative fences are called curbs. Most often they are made from boxwood evergreen, magnolia pallidum, tuvolga and quince Japanese. Low hedges are also formed from low-growing forms of thuja and spruce.
How to make a hedge?
To create dense hedges, deciduous shrubs of two to three years old and coniferous - three to five years - are best suited. In order to make the fence smooth, you should pull the cord on the site of planting of seedlings. Then a trench is excavated and planted in it. In a row, the plants are planted from each other at a distance of up to 60 cm, depending on the species. Between the rows can stand up to a distance of 50 cm. On the eve of planting, the soil should be fertilized and watered well, if necessary.
If you need to quickly create a living prickly fence, besides protecting from uninvited guests, then the best plant for this purpose than the dog rose you will not find. Rosehip can bloom twice a season, it is unpretentious and very decorative. Such a hedge of wild rose is often used as an addition to the fence from the net.
An excellent hedge can be grown from juniper. In addition to decorative juniper has bactericidal qualities, and its berries will go for a tasty and useful, slightly tart jam. From the virgin juniper it is possible to grow a hedge up to two meters high, but the variety of the low-growing juniper Hornibrok is suitable for an average live evergreen hedge.