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Garden hedge in landscape design, plants used to create hedges, hedge care
To add an aristocratic chic look to your suburban dwelling, to decorate and green the territory, and also to protect yourself from prying eyes of neighbors will help a hedge. What is it, how to choose plants for a functional, fast-growing and necessarily beautiful, hedge, how to look after them later, let's try to figure out our article.
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Landscaping: hedge
When for the first time a person began to use plants as a hedge, it is unknown. But, initially, hedges were actively used in England, however, purely functional: to protect fields and pastures. It was believed that such a green fence would protect not only physical, but also spiritual, witchcraft effects, because the hedgerow is the residence of elves and fairies, who are still revered in many European countries.
As for the more decorative use of hedges, this is France, the beginning of XVIII. It was then that landscape art began to actively develop.
Currently, hedge – it is a combination of functionality and beauty, because it is not only a type of landscape design that is now fashionable, a view of landscaping a summer cottage, but also a quite functional, barrier-protection from prying eyes, people and animals.
T.O., hedge represents dense thickets of plants planted in one or more rows along the perimeter of the site or, in accordance with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe landscape designer, in another way. Almost all plants are used for hedges: from grassy to trees, a height of several tens of centimeters to 6 m, depending on what we want to get as a result.
After all, a hedge is not only a decor, it performs many specific functions:
- protective: dense high vegetation planted around the perimeter of the site, along with brick, concrete or forged fences, will protect not only strangers and animals from entering the site, but also dust, wind, snow in the winter, and, to some extent, noise from the street.
- zoning: due to the variability of both the height and the width of the hedge, it can be the border of the garden or plot, a separate territory (flower beds, recreation areas, verandas) or it can beautifully emphasize and highlight garden paths, flower beds.
- concealer: with the help of a hedge, you can not only decorate, but also disguise unsightly buildings.
Such a diverse use of hedges is possible due to the diversity of its species.
Hedgerow: species
What types of hedges exist:
Height:
- border, height up to 0.5 m,
- low hedges, from 0.5 to 1 m tall.
- medium, up to 2 m in height.
- high, from 2 meters to 6 m in height.
By the number of rows used in the formation of hedges:
- single-row, thus plants are well-branched and dense.
- two-row plants with a lower crown density, for greater density or for decorative purposes (for example, 2-colored hedges).
- - multi-row, plants are arranged in several rows, often also in several tiers, to achieve a denser and more diverse hedge vegetation.
By the method of forming hedges:
- shorn (molded): such hedges are denser and more reliable, they can be given any shape.
- freely growing, usually a hedge of plants that are not subject to decorative pruning and shearing. Such a hedge requires almost minimal care: top dressing and still, autumn, though forming and sanitary cutting.
By decorativeness, hedges can be divided:
- decorative blooming
- decorative leafy.
Hedgerow Plants
For each specific type of hedge, certain plants are required, for example, to do:
- borderwe need grassy forms, many and annuals: perennial aster (European, New English, New Belgian), solidago, artemisia, asparagus, peony, dahlia, heather, lavender.
- low hedge requiring molding can be created with the help of plants such as Ginnal maple, common barberry (green and purple), cotoneaster brilliant, alpine currant, golden currant, western thuja, colony juniper.
- medium growing plantsfor hedges up to 2 meters, which lend themselves well to haircut and are unpretentious in cultivation, these include hawthorn, common barberry, purple barberry, white derain, cotoneaster, Ginnala maple, vesicle, Alpine currant, golden currant, yellow acacia.
A hedge of medium height can be formed from trees grown on trellises, with a flat crown (they are also called palmettes), while the existing non-blind fence (wooden or wire) can act as trellis.
If you need a medium-height hedge that does not require a haircut and crown formation, but there is plenty to choose from: ordinary barberry, purple barberry, brilliant cotoneaster, white derain, Alpine currant, Lemoan marmoset, Wangutta spirea, berry yew, Lavson cypress, thuja western, Canadian spruce.
- to create high sheared hedges They use plants such as small-leaved elm, Berlin poplar, Tatar maple, Siberian hawthorn, Golden honeysuckle, small-leaved bush linden, Western thuja, all these plants are easier, of course, to buy ready-made seedlings for 3-4 years and plant on their site.
But for not formed, not requiring trimming hedges common lilac, Hungarian lilac, Siberian apple tree, golden honeysuckle, Tatar honeysuckle, iris spikelets, Canadian irrigation, common viburnum, common mock up are well suited.
- to create a spectacular flowering fence of plants you need to pay attention to these plants: Amur lilac, Hungarian lilac, mock marshmallow, Japanese spirea, Wangutta spirea, Amur action, Wilson action, Lemoine action, Maak honeysuckle, tree hydrangea, heather, rosehip, rose.
