At the cottage is good alternative ordinary fence. In addition to the fact that the green screen perfectly protects the site from uninvited guests, it simply attracts admiring glances with its lively beauty, enriching everything around it not only with natural aesthetics, but also fresh air. How beautiful and durable a living fence will be directly depends on the correct choice of plants for it.
What plants are suitable for hedges
When choosing plants for planting on your site as a green fence, it is best to rely not only on taste preferences or comparing the capriciousness of individual species. The correct guideline in such a matter is the degree of resistance of the selected plant to climatic conditions your area. Let's consider three main regions of Russia, which include key natural factors influencing the growth of "street" plants.
Living fence in the Moscow region
There are many types of plants for planting in the Moscow region, it remains to decide what height you prefer the fence.
green walls
For those who have decided to literally isolate themselves from the outside world and surround themselves with an impregnable fence more than 2 meters high, you need to pay attention to the types of plants described below.
Spruce Serbian is beautiful evergreen tree to create a tall hedge. It can reach a height of up to 5 m. The crown diameter of an adult tree is about 8 m. This type of spruce is completely unpretentious and does not need a haircut. The needles have a rich, shiny dark green color. The variety endures winter frosts and grows well in urban conditions.
Serbian spruce is a whole group of spruce varieties with a radically different appearance. The photo shows a miniature variety of Serbian spruce - Karel.
Fruit trees, namely the Nedzvedsky Apple Tree looks good on any site due to its peculiar crown, the color of which is rich green on top and purple below. The apple tree is especially beautiful during flowering. It has lush purple flowers. This variety bears fruit abundantly with small red apples. The tree is low, rare specimens reach a height of 8 m. But it is distinguished by a high growth rate, life expectancy, unpretentiousness and good resistance to diseases, pests and frost.
An example of a tall hawthorn hedge.
hawthorn. This variety is highly valued landscape design for its dark dense greenery, delicate white inflorescences and long spines (up to 1.5 cm). It can grow up to 8 m. It got its unusual name due to dark fruits with green flesh. Begins to bear fruit at the age of 9 years.
low hedges
Suitable for creating a small green fence any varieties. They are equally unpretentious and resistant to any climatic conditions. With its decorative qualities stands out barberry Thunberg. Its small leaves can have a different color: yellow, red, pink and even brown. Another feature is not susceptibility to fungal diseases. But this variety belongs to slow-growing shrubs with inedible fruits, reaching maximum height at 1.5 m.
Thunberg barberry hedge
It is an unpretentious shrub growing from 2 to 4 m. Its leaves are distinguished by an oblong shape, a brilliant dark green color. Flowering begins in early July with small creamy flowers with a pleasant aroma. The fruits ripen at the end of September and acquire a small size and a glossy black color. Commonly referred to as wolfberry. Privet is easy to mold, but also looks good when grown wild.
A living fence made of common privet.
Thuja Western, one of the varieties of which is described above, has high decorative qualities. For hedges, you can use not only the type of Brabant. But also, for example, Smaragd. Reaches a height of no more than 2 meters and is well processed. This variety of thuja belongs to evergreens with a neat bright green crown. It perfectly tolerates winter and many plant diseases.
Decorative living borders
To create a small hedge up to 1 meter high, perfect Alpine currant. She tolerates cold and wind well, but does not like high temperatures. If you are looking for what is better to make garden figurines of varying complexity, then this particular variety of currant is perfect for this. You can find subspecies with small green or large yellowish serrated foliage.
Attention! Alpine currants are susceptible to aphids, rust, and spider mites, so they must be sprayed with a fungicide and insecticide. This shrub should also be systematically fertilized in spring and autumn, and the affected branches should also be carefully removed.
Represents beautiful shrub with a lush crown and delicate flowers of various colours. The most common are white and pink. This is a very heat-loving plant, so it should be planted in areas well lit by the sun and protected from the wind at a distance of about 2 m from each other. She also does not like waterlogging, so in September they stop watering her altogether. Deutia loves fertilized soil, but it is best to feed it during the flowering period.
In the photo - graceful action ‘Nikko’
Spirea Japanese is a slow-growing shrub, no more than 60 cm high. But it is distinguished by a lush dark green crown 1.5 meters in diameter and lush red-pink flowering, which occurs in July for no more than 45 days. The shrub is quite resistant to frost and tolerant of growing in the shade.
A "wild style" bramble hedge, but the bushes can look pretty neat.
hedgerow in siberia
Siberia is rich in all sorts of vegetation, but not much of it is suitable for hedges.
Medium and high railings
Apart from barberry, hawthorn and all kinds of conifers thrives in harsh terrain chokeberry, characterized by high resistance to winds and frosts. The dense crown consists of small glossy dense green leaves, turning crimson in autumn. The height of the tree can exceed two meters.
Derain white very unpretentious and tall plant. Its leaves are light green with a white edge. Due to its simplicity and susceptibility to light shearing, it is widely distributed in the northern part of Russia.
climbing plants
Parthenocissus is well known in the northern area. But its popularity does not overshadow such a plant as. They are lush beautiful flowers various colors. This is a fast-growing and very unpretentious bindweed that gets along with any plants.
Represents lovely decoration inner area. Its branches die off cold period, but grow back very quickly in the spring. The plant is distinguished by large and dark green leaves, densely covering any structure.
Actinidia kolomikta stands out for its high density of vegetation. Its shade may vary depending on age. During the warm period, it blooms with small flowers. white color about three weeks. In winter, the shoots die off, so actinidia must be cut off in the spring.
Actinidia kolomikta
The choice of seedlings for planting hedges is huge, the main thing is to determine which plants are suitable for your climate zone.
About suitable plants in the video
A detailed story about the cultures from which you can make hedge, in the program "TeleDom".
Living fence in the country - perfect solution for those who want to elegantly and beautifully decorate the fence of the site, divide their garden into several parts using original means of demarcation and decorate the territory decoratively. For decoration, you can use the most different kinds plants from tall evergreen conifers to flowering shrubs.
An example of a hedge growing on a border of natural stone
Features of the formation of a hedge with your own hands
It looks like a hedge of various shrubs
By alternating undersized, medium and tall plant varieties, you can create a multi-stage hedge. IN small garden to delimit the site, it is better to plant one type of plant, and on a large area - many different varieties of trees and shrubs.
Types of hedges
To create a green fence of plantations use the most various varieties plants.
Scheme of the device and installation of the fence hedge
So, the following types of hedges are distinguished:
- Green hedge using climbing plants;
- evergreen hedge coniferous plants;
- and deciduous trees;
- Border hedge of undersized plants.
Also, hedges are distinguished by height: high (more than two meters in height), medium (from one to two meters), low (up to 120 cm) and border (from half a meter). You can plant a hedge in one, two or more rows. By the speed of formation, fast-growing or long-growing hedges are distinguished. The first category includes natural fences, which can be formed in two years.
Hedges are also soft and prickly. Soft hedges are used to divide the site into sectors, and thorny ones are often planted along the perimeter of the territory. If the plants do not require constant cutting and shaping, the hedge is called free-growing. Otherwise, the hedge must be molded.
Willow hedge example
There are rectangular, square, trellis, triangular, round and other forms of haircuts.
Curly hedges
Curly hedges are used for various purposes:
- Disguises of the unsightly wall of the old barn;
- Artistic design of the fence, terraces, gazebos;
- Braiding tree trunks or poles;
- Decor of long-growing perennial vines, for which I use fast-growing climbing annuals.
Climbing plants are widely used in design, and with proper care, they perfectly perform their decorative function. to plant perennial varieties possible both in autumn and in early spring in open ground. From annual varieties, seedlings are first grown, which are subsequently planted in a permanent place after the threat of frost has disappeared. The ridge is located at a distance of at least half a meter from the fence or wall.
Curly hedge option
For better growth Climbing and climbing plants need support to climb up.
perennial varieties
Perennial varieties of climbing plants grow in the same place for several years in a row, delighting the owner of the site from year to year. Among them, tree-like or grassy vines are distinguished. Wild grapes are widely used in decor. It is possible to plant a plot with its help in enough short time and with the least effort, time and money. The length of the vines can reach 20 meters. When planting, they maintain a distance of half a meter between plants and plant grapes in holes 30 cm deep.
In one season, lashes up to two meters long can already be obtained from seedlings, and by the end of the second year of life, the lashes completely cover the surface of the area allocated for them.
Wild grapes have good frost resistance, grow well both in the sun and in the shade.
It looks like a hedge of wild grapes
Evergreen ivy has also become an unpretentious climbing plant, which has become widespread for decorating the site. The cuttings of the plant are planted at a distance of 30-50 cm from each other, and the vines rise up with the help of sucker roots. In autumn, shoots require pruning. Frost-resistant varieties ivy is covered for the winter, and more tender and heat-loving plants are transplanted and kept in a bright, cool room, periodically watering.
A very beautiful and widespread plant in the design is a climbing rose. Roses bloom profusely and brightly, smell wonderfully and create a festive mood. For normal growth, roses require top dressing, pruning and watering. Also need good protection from pests, for which in preventive and medicinal purposes chemicals are used. planted climbing rose autumn on sunny place, and for the winter they cover with spruce branches and film.
annual climbing plants
An example of a hedge from various annual bushes
From one-year-olds, nasturtium, thunbergia, morning glory, sweet pea, kobe, ornamental beans and pumpkin are often used.
Sweet peas have flowers of an interesting shape and a variety of colors. In order for the plant to bloom well and for a long time, the resulting beans should be removed in time. Sweet peas prefer neutral soil without an abundance of fertilizers, and, otherwise, bloom poorly, giving strength to leaf growth. Ipomoea is a climbing plant with funnel-shaped flowers of blue, pink or purple. This plant blooms from July until late autumn and can spread up to five meters wide, so it does not require planting frequency.
Heat-loving nasturtiums are very unpretentious. Planting them is done both by seeds in the ground and by seedlings. The foliage of the plant has a pale green hue, and during flowering, the green carpet is covered with bright flowers of orange, yellow, dark or bright red.
evergreen pine hedge
Evergreen conifers are often used to create an impenetrable hedge on the site. At the same time, such a green fence will not have to be looked after a lot, and it will not cost much. The only negative when forming a hedge from conifers is the duration of the process. It will take at least three years to grow a coniferous hedge.
Another feature of the hedge is an attractive appearance in any season. Coniferous plants do not have flowers, only occasionally shed obsolete needles.
If you want to add color, you can plant flower beds and flower beds next to the hedge.
Thuja hedge
A great way to isolate yourself from the outside world and decorate your site. Thuja will serve as a reliable barrier, protect from unwanted guests and from external noise.
This is what a thuja hedge looks like
At good care thuja does not fall off and does not fade, it is easily molded and sheared. Seedlings are placed in one row with an interval of 40–80 cm. Four-year-old seedlings are best suited for planting: they are well accepted and grow quite quickly.
Varieties Brabant, Holmstrup and Smaragd are widely used. Brabant grows up to four meters in height and requires pruning twice a year. Thuja Holmstrup hedge can rise up to a maximum of 2.5 meters and grows slowly. Care for her is only watering. Thuya Smaragd - a plant up to six meters in height. It has a narrow cone-shaped crown, which is why it is loved by many designers.
spruce hedge
If the owner of the site has enough time and patience, you can land around the perimeter. For this, varieties such as prickly, gray, purple and oriental spruce are used. Due to the density of the crown, the spruces close the view well and make the hedge impenetrable. 
Seedlings are best accepted when planting in the fall. Warm dry weather is suitable for planting. Each seedling is planted in holes at least half a meter deep, made in well-moistened soil at a distance of at least a meter. When planting in two rows in a checkerboard pattern, the distance between the fir trees is maintained at least 80 cm. The fir fence looks fresh at any time of the year.
juniper fence
Juniper belongs to the evergreen shrubs. Juniper needles may have a greenish or bluish tint. Virginian juniper is isolated from fast-growing varieties, while other species of this plant can grow for a very long time, up to several centuries.
Chinese and scaly varieties are also very popular. These frost-resistant species are branched and tolerate arid climates well. Juniper hedge is unpretentious and can serve for many years.
Juniper hedge example
So that there are no openings between its rows, the plants are planted in several rows in a checkerboard pattern.
If you decide to make such a decoration in your yard, then you need to decide on the goals of the fence, its location relative to the sun and other factors, as well as its shape. After all, it can be free and grow in all directions. And there is one that needs to be formed, cut and adjusted to certain sizes. Therefore, it is important to choose the right type of plant that will perfectly cope with all your requirements.
Kalinolistny vesicle
This bush has excellent characteristics for those who want to green up their site as soon as possible. disease resistant, tolerates freezing winters well and most importantly these hedge plants are fast growing. grows in all directions at once. Its branches are covered with dense foliage, which looks like maple leaves, as well as currants and viburnum. The leaves have a very beautiful and unusual texture. In late June and early July, the plant blooms. Its inflorescences are umbrellas of many small flowers that densely fill the already dense branches.
Did you know? In one year, the plant lengthens its branches by 40 cm.
The shape of the crown can be formed independently or let it grow in all directions. Standard bush has round shape. Some landscape designers form fountains or square low fences. The height of the bush and its width - up to 3 meters. 
Pruning the plant should be carried out regularly, ridding it of inside growing, dry and diseased branches.
The best time for this is the end of autumn or the beginning of spring, when very coldy already asleep. It is important to do this at a time when the juices along the branches have not yet gained their usual warm season speeds. Then you won't damage your plant. It is preferable to create a bush shape in the spring. 
It is worth noting the variety of varieties. They are fundamentally different from each other due to foliage color. She may be:
- purple, which may change to red in autumn period("Diabolo", "Little Devil", "Coppertina");
- yellow with a golden sheen ("Darts Gold", "Luteus");
- the sheet has two colors at once: gold and burgundy ("Center Glow").
Is there some more dwarf variety"Nana", which is painted in juicy green color and decorated with bright white flowers.
thuja
- European and Giralda are distinguished by the highest resistance to frost;
- the greenest has the most large flowers, but does not tolerate winter well and is suitable for the southern regions;
- oval-leaved;
- drooping;
- average hibernates without loss.
Important! Fertilizers are important for forcing: organic fertilizers are applied in the fall, mineral fertilizers in the spring. And also - pruning, which is carried out every year. Without these actions, the bush becomes very weak.
Privet
- "Kobold" - a spherical bush no higher than 30 cm with bright green leaves that turn yellow-orange by autumn;
- "Baguette" - round form, not higher than 40 cm, has red leaves, which, when grown in the sun, cast brown, and green in the shade;
- "Admiration" - grows into a ball with a diameter of 50 cm and has a unique foliage that is purple inside and has a light border around the edges;
- "Hurry Gold" - a dense golden crown that turns pink in autumn;
- "Atropurpurea Nana" - a purple-red bush, up to 60 cm high, 1 m wide;
- "Green Carpet" - does not grow above 50 cm and has light green foliage in a rounded crown.
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First of all, it is important to determine the conditions (soil, lighting, etc.). In addition, you should decide whether your hedge will be free-growing (this takes more space) or you plan to shape it (this saves space, but requires serious maintenance).
Now you can start choosing plants for the hedge. We have selected shrubs suitable for this purpose. You can plant them as soon as the construction is over.
If you are planting a hedge along a fence, before choosing plants, you need to pay attention to which side the sun is shining in your case and whether the plants you have chosen will have enough light.
10 most unpretentious and friendly
Deren
If you want to save money, you can buy one large bush and make several out of it. Classic "fences" derains - white, blood red and offspring (Cornus alba, C. sanguinea, C. stolonifera). Due to the variety of variegated and bright bark varieties, the plant looks interesting both as an independent hedge and as a "cover" for a fence.
pros : Unpretentiousness: most types of deren grows on almost any soil, in the sun and in partial shade. Winter hardiness. Fast growth rate: any of the common varieties of sod will reach a height of 1 m in the first year. Bright bark that adorns the garden in winter.
Minuses : With low growth, it occupies a fairly large area.
Shrub willows (twisted, purple, Caspian)
Excellent material for hedges about 3 meters high. There are many varieties and you with a wide range of characteristics, allowing you to choose the option suitable for any conditions and needs. Many of them grow very large, and are best suited for large areas. Very interesting thanks to the narrow long leaves fluttering in the wind, basket willow (S. viminalis) And willow schwerina (S. schwerinii). If we turn to varieties, then among the willows there are excellent candidates for planting on a completely small plot: white willow (S. alba) "Sericea", ashy "Variegata", rosemary (S. rosmarinifolia), whole-leaved (S. integra) "Hakura Nishiki" And " Pendula", purple (S. purpurea) "Nana". Most suitable for willows is a moist substrate. They are not demanding on mechanical and chemical composition, but develop best on acidic (pH 5-6), not particularly saline soils.
pros : Unpretentious and rapidly developing. Easy to propagate: willow cuttings take root well.
Minuses : Demanding on soil moisture and sensitive to its acidity.
Vesicle viburnum
Large (3-4 m - height and diameter) shrub with a dense crown. Shoots grow first vertically upwards, then bend in picturesque arcs. Creates a hedge that is completely opaque in summer and dense enough in winter. vesicle feels good on almost any soil: light sandy, heavy clay and stony. He does not like only alkaline soils, preferring neutral and acidic (pH from 4.5 to 6.5). Tolerates lack of watering. All vesicles tolerate shearing very well, which makes it possible to form bushes from them with dense compact crowns.
pros : Unpretentiousness. High growth rate - 30-40 cm (and up to 1 m) per year in favorable conditions. Virtually pest free. Successfully adapts to various environmental conditions (including the polluted urban atmosphere). Almost all varieties of vesicle are frost-resistant.
Minuses : Sensitive to soil acidity (does not like alkaline environment). Tolerates shade, but will not grow in full shade. Varieties with colored leaves, even with slight shading, change their color to green.
Cotoneaster brilliant
Usually cotoneaster is used for low and medium height (up to 2 meters) hedges formed by pruning. When grown in free form, only with sanitary pruning, it grows up to 3 meters in height. Under favorable conditions, it grows quickly.
pros : The cotoneaster has small densely arranged leaves, it branches well, its dense bushes do not go bald underneath. Unpretentious to the soil, relatively drought-resistant, very shade-tolerant, tolerates even urban conditions well, frost-resistant.
Minuses : The need for regular shaping pruning.
Aronia chokeberry
Maple Tatar and ginnal maple are similar to each other and appearance, and according to the requirements for the conditions. Both species grow as small trees or large shrubs with an average height of 4 to 9 meters. Suitable for trimmed hedges. Give abundant root growth. If it is undesirable for the maples to "scatter", it is necessary to provide a restriction on the sides of the landing trench, laying, for example, a wide curb tape.
pros : They tolerate shearing well and grow quickly.
Minuses : Tendency to form root shoots. Photophilous. In partial shade they lose their bright color. In both species, the trunks are rather quickly exposed from below. If this is undesirable, it is necessary immediately, without waiting for the crowns to close, to form a trapezoidal hedge profile. In this case, the lower branches should be longer than the upper ones in order to receive more light. In this case, the bottom will not be exposed.
And finally, the maximum practical option use usable area - mixed free growing hedge . For example, you can plant different lilacs And mock oranges , for example, high mock orange crown (Philadelphus coronarius) or numerous varieties mock orange (Philadelphus pallidus), shading them with shorter wild roses in the foreground. They will bloom at different times, and the hedge will retain its beauty for almost the entire season.
Minuses of this option: Difficulties in selecting plants so that they harmoniously combine with each other and at the same time they fit the same conditions.
Tired of using "dead", static material in garden structures, fences and landscaping?
Then decorate outbuildings, divide the garden into separate sections or organize in the country cozy corner for recreation through evergreen hedges.
A green hedge can be freely growing (natural) or clipped, deciduous or coniferous, soft or prickly, multi-row or single-row, combined or created from shrubs and plants of the same species. Everything depends on the tasks.
Evergreen hedge
Before you start designing your own hedge design, consider what plants are most suitable for forming this kind of garden fence?
So, if you need to mask unsightly corners of the garden (for example, a barn or a fence), arrange a terrace, a gazebo or cover the trunks of old trees, use such popular climbing plants how:
1. Tree-like or herbaceous perennial vines:
Honeysuckle honeysuckle - winding fragrant vine
Campsis - woody deciduous liana 
Common hop (curly) 
Actinidia kolomikta - woody vine (creeper) 
Schisandra chinensis - deciduous liana 
For normal development and growth, fast-growing climbing plants definitely need a solid support. It can be a wooden or metal frame, chain-link mesh. With quality support, climbing hedges will grow much faster.
Attention! A fast-growing hedge requires timely pruning and shaping. If the green fence is not properly maintained, it will look shapeless and neglected.
In the following hedge photos, we will show you how amazing interiors can be created from green walls (using the example of grapes, a fragrant pot and a climbing rose).
2. Annual creepers for seasonal hedges:
If perennial ornamental vines grow for several years and secure a certain area, then annual climbing plants can be planted in a new place every year.
In addition, when creating a hedge, one-year-olds allow you to quickly solve some decorative problems long-growing perennial liana - quickly fill empty spaces, create vertical color spots and profusely blooming screens.
It is necessary to plant flowering annuals in the soil from seedlings and only after the threat of frost has disappeared.
Popular Hedge Shrubs
If you need to protect the territory suburban area or cottages from uninvited guests, most often when laying a green hedge, tall deciduous and coniferous shrubs are used.
Coniferous hedges
Making a hedge from coniferous plants will not be expensive and laborious. However, the process is not fast, and the growth of one such fence can take at least three years. Another, not so significant drawback of coniferous fences is the unchanged appearance. Both in winter and in summer, firs, junipers and spruces enliven the garden with greenery, but do not bloom.
To add color to a living fence, evergreen conifers can be used as a background. Next to them, both traditional garden flowers and alpine plants look great.
The life tree serves as a barrier against penetration into the territory, perfectly protects the garden from exhaust gases, extraneous noise and dust from the street, retains snow and masks unaesthetic buildings outside the site.
Living fence from thuja, with proper care, will never fall off or wither. Thuja is one of the easiest to care for and unpretentious evergreens. She easily tolerates a shaping haircut and transplant.
In order to create a dense impermeable living wall from plants, planting must be carried out in one row after 40-80 cm, depending on the garden shape of the tree.
It is best to form a green wall from small 4-year-old seedlings - they take root faster and cost less.
spruce hedge
The most common varieties that are used to form a hedge of spruce include: prickly spruce, oriental, Siberian, purple and gray. The dense crown and good branching of these conifers completely closes the view of the site and clearly defines the boundaries of garden zones.
Young coniferous trees are planted in warm autumn, in fairly loose and moist trench soil up to 50 cm deep. When planting a single-row coniferous hedge, keep a distance of 1 m between seedlings. must be at least 80 cm.
juniper hedge
Impenetrable thickets can be created through the Cossack juniper with green or bluish needles. A rapidly growing hedge will form a virgin juniper. And ordinary, with slow growth, will grow in the garden for a very, very long time (almost 200 years). But if you are not going to live that long, then scaly or Chinese juniper is quite suitable for you as a green fence. They branch well and easily withstand severe frosts.
To minimize accidental free openings, juniper seedlings are planted in a checkerboard pattern with a large clod of earth. Over time, when the trees grow a little, it is necessary to evenly cut off all the tops. This will make the juniper as neat as possible.
Deciduous hedges
Common hornbeam hedge
In order to create a good dense hedge without large holes, when planting, it is necessary to use younger seedlings, about 50 cm high. They are more likely to achieve density. When the trees grow together in a wall in two years, you can begin to mold them.
Willow hedge
Such a hedge can be grown both in a swampy and in a dry area. Using two-year-old woody cuttings for planting (such will be better accepted). To do this, young plants need to be planted in a hole half a meter deep and tied to a pre-prepared frame with poles.
It looks like this.
Literally in a couple of years, the willow hedge in the country house (if it is not subjected to regular molding) will turn into a dense wall of an acceptable height.
Willow is the only hedge plant that can achieve such an impressive effect in such a short (compared to coniferous) period of time.
hawthorn hedge
In addition to bright decorative foliage, hawthorns bloom very beautifully. Yes, they are good in winter. Their branches until spring are decorated with red fruits, similar to miniature apples.
Planting a hedge from common hawthorn always begins with the preparation of holes located at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Hawthorn seedlings must be chosen already quite large - from 3 to 5 years. The following year, they must be cut off, leaving a 10 cm high stump above the ground.
Wild rose hedge
Some types of wild roses can reach a height of three meters in a few years. Given this fact and the fact that wild roses, like roses, grow strongly, they can be planted in one row. And only when the garden needs a wide hedge for landscaping - the seedlings are placed in a checkerboard pattern, sometimes in two, less often in three rows.
Flowering thickets of wild rose are not as unpretentious as, for example, hedges made of hornbeam or willow. This ornamental shrub often sick with powdery mildew, its leaves are affected by sawflies, spider mites, aphids and other pests. Regular spraying with chemicals helps fight diseases.
Advice. Fast-growing hedge shrubs need manual pruning of both the tops of the branches and inner stems. This will keep the hedge tidy and allow sunlight to reach deeper into the bush. Hedge trimming is carried out at the end of winter, at a time when a tree or bush does not bud (is at rest).
Hedges from medium-sized plants
Decorative hedge in shape can be high, medium and short (up to half a meter). And it can be shaped (shorn) and unshaped (free-growing).
The distance when planting hedges also depends on the size and shape of plant growth. So for high hedges (which gardeners among themselves call green walls), one running meter 2-3 seedlings are enough, for low ones - 3-4.
Protect the garden and plants in it from strong wind and dust can be used with the following medium-sized and undersized shrubs:
Red and black elderberry hedge
Due to the extremely fast growth of the shoots, the elderberry must be cut heavily (shortly) (even the cut branches of the shrub give abundant shoots).
This plant has the highest decorative effect in the summer period of flowering and fruiting. At this time, the compact elderberry tree (or shrub) is completely hung with shiny scarlet berries.
Blooming hydrangea tree hedge
Tree-like hydrangeas bloom for a long time and profusely - from July to mid-autumn. The height of lush, very sprawling hemispherical bushes with numerous flexible shoots is about 1.5 m.
For beginner gardeners (for those who have not yet encountered such a thing as a hedge), buying a hydrangea grown in a nursery is a real success. Seedlings that were bought directly from the producer (located in the same climate zone, where the shrub will grow in the future), take root better in the garden and develop faster.
Viburnum hedge
Viburnum vulgaris, pleasing to the eye with pink foam of flowers throughout the spring, and corals with a red scattering of fruits in the fall, has long been registered in many domestic gardens.
Viburnum hedges grown in the garden will have the shape that a person will give it with pruning. Beneficial (well combined) viburnum looks against the background of such plants as spruce, birch, linden and maple.
Spirea hedge
It becomes clear that fast-growing plants for hedges are deciduous, beloved by everyone, and no less adored conifers. Spirea (meadowsweet) was no exception. This deciduous shrub with a variety of bush shapes: hemispherical, pyramidal, erect, etc., develops quite quickly. For 2-3 years, this undemanding culture reaches its full growth, forming a durable, abundantly flowering spirea fence.
Lilac hedge
It seems incredible, but such a decorative hedge in a summer cottage is almost irresistible. Simple varieties of lilac densely fill the lower tier with flexible branches, which makes the living wall impassable either for humans or for many animals. (A lilac fence will be even stronger if you periodically twist the grown seedlings crosswise, fixing the branches with wire, twine or metal rings).
curb hedges
When zoning a garden in landscape design, it is recommended to use a low and very dense hedge of regular geometric shape - bosquets.
So, for the design of walls with clear contours are most suitable tree species, which perfectly tolerate a haircut.
If the border fence is used to enclose a flower garden or as a decorative living frame, then it is important that the plants for the border do not distract attention from the accent flower arrangement. They grew slowly, were persistent, neat and non-capricious.
Molded hedge (plants for which it is better to choose shade-tolerant with relatively slow growth) can be thorny and non-thorny, deciduous and coniferous.
Yew hedge
In the harsh climate of Russia, high impenetrable fences are rarely created from yews, most often low borders are formed from them - yew branches, slowly growing and branching well, create a very dense texture. These shrubs are recommended to be planted in sheltered places - so the breed will better retain its appearance after a harsh winter and give abundant fruiting.
It is necessary to cut such a living thorny hedge when the crowns of neighboring trees close. But since the yew grows very slowly, molding will have to wait a couple of years.
Boxwood hedge
Boxwood is a compact plant with a beautiful dense leaf - a traditional element of classic landscape design. In order to make a straight line of a hedge out of boxwood, you need:
using a tape measure, mark the length of the fence;
fix a distance of 35 cm between the bushes;
hammer pegs at the ends of the furrow and pull a rope between them;
check how the hedge will be parallel to the fence.
By means of some boxwood thickets, you can create entire labyrinths. It is recommended to start cutting the boxwood shrub the very next year after planting. And this should be done only in the evening (bright sunlight can burn the tips of trimmed leaves).
Living hedge of brilliant cotoneaster
Although the cotoneaster grows slowly, it forms an impenetrable, dense crown, covered with pinkish-white inflorescences from the very spring, and burgundy leaves in late autumn.
Unlike many shrubs, the lower foliage of a tree from the Rosaceae family does not fall off. This means that there is no need to plant a second line of green spaces.
In addition, the branches of a deciduous shrub branch quite strongly, so they need to be planted at a distance of at least one meter from each other.
hedge of common barberry
Intense purple colors in the fall, incredible fragrance in the spring and abundant fruiting in the summer - this is all a hedge, the price of which depends on the method of cultivation and the right plants. So, a barberry fence will cost you much more (from 2000 rubles per 1 linear meter) if you order its project from a landscape services company. Whereas a fast-growing hedge, made by hand in the country, will cost you five times cheaper.
Privet hedge
From privet, especially loved by all gardeners, formed hedges are most often grown. They are sheared at least 3 times a year using manual and mechanical garden tools, such as large scissors, secateurs, hacksaws, hand saws, chainsaws, trimmers.
(The height of the privet hedge will be uniform if the shear is carried out along a cord stretched through pegs installed on the tops of the outer plants).
Hedge of holly mahonia
Leathery shiny leaves of mahonia, with tiny sharp needles, habitually green in summer. But in winter, the shrub becomes brown-purple, somewhere even purple. But there is one “but”, young plants do not tolerate the first wintering very well. Do not be lazy and cover the evergreen living fence with spruce branches.
Forsythia hedge (fence)
In early spring, when most of the shrubs and trees in your country house are bare, a beautiful forsythia hedge is already covered with amazing golden yellow flowers that look like bells. And in late autumn, when many plants have already shed their outfit, dark green leaves still adorn the forsythia.
Due to their exceptional decorative effect, forsythia shrubs look good both in complex compositions with other plants and in group plantings.
Japanese quince hedge (Chenomeles)
Highly ornamental shrub bright colors grown in the border and actively used in landscape design. Such a fence can decorate any outbuilding, giving it even some glamor and mystery.
Selection of plants and shrubs for hedges
Regardless of the purpose and types of hedges, you should correctly choose plants and plant them correctly:
- a living fence will grow without problems in the garden if you use only those coniferous and deciduous trees that tolerate the climatic conditions of our country well;
- for shaded areas of the garden, shade-tolerant woody shrubs should be selected, and for well-lit areas, those that bloom profusely and grow well;
- if you have no time (or don’t want to) to engage in constant shaping and cutting, then grow an unshaped hedge of lilac, honeysuckle, mock orange, apple tree, viburnum or shadberry;
- coniferous hedge will protect, decorate the garden and saturate the air with the healthiest phytoncides;
- deciduous and conifers it is allowed to alternate - only if you are not embarrassed by the fact that the hedge will be slightly transparent in winter due to fallen leaves;
- the optimal time for laying an evergreen hedge is mid-spring;
- trellis hedge, which serves as a reliable support for climbing perennials- this is both a very dense and light fencing of the site;
- a green hedge in the garden will not only decorate it, but also bring edible fruits if you plant such useful shrubs as gooseberries, cotoneaster, sea buckthorn, barberries, currants, chaenomeles, sheferdia, wild rose, hawthorn, viburnum, etc.
Often, multi-stage hedges are created from undersized shrubs. And if you are a clear fan of designer delights, then a hedge) will surely appeal to you. Just keep in mind that single-breed hedges are not bad for gardens. small size, and heterogeneous - for large.
Hedge - photo for inspiration and ideas
Well, and finally, a photo of a hedge for the pros!