In the country is good alternative an ordinary fence. In addition to the fact that the green screen perfectly protects the site from uninvited guests, it simply attracts admiring gaze with its living 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 a hedge
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 whimsicality of certain species. The correct guideline in such a matter is the degree of resistance of the selected plant to climatic conditions your area. Consider the three main regions of Russia, which include the key natural factors affecting the growth of "street" plants.
A hedge 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 hedge.
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.
Serbian spruce is a wonderful evergreen tree to create a tall hedge. It can reach a height of up to 5 m. The diameter of the crown of an adult tree is about 8 m. This type of spruce is not whimsical at all and does not need a haircut. The needles have a rich shiny dark green color... The variety tolerates winter frosts and grows well in urban conditions.
Serbian spruce is a whole group of spruce varieties with radically different appearance. The photo shows a miniature variety of Serbian spruce - Karel.
Fruit trees, namely the Apple tree of Nedzvedsky looks good in any area 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. She has magnificent purple flowers. This variety bears fruit with abundant small red apples. Low tree, rare specimens reach a height of 8 m. But it has a high growth rate, life expectancy, unpretentiousness and good resistance to diseases, pests and frost.
An example of a tall hawthorn hedge.
Hawthorn Green Meat... This variety is highly prized in 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 the dark fruits with green flesh. Begins to bear fruit at the age of 9 years.
Low hedges
To create a small green fence, use any varieties... They are equally unpretentious and resistant to any climatic conditions. It stands out for its decorative qualities barberry Thunberg... Its small leaves can be of different colors: 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 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 glossy black color. In the common people they are called as wolfberry... Privet is easy to mold, but also looks good when grown wild.
A hedge 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 Brabant species. But also, for example, Smaragd. Reaches a height of no more than 2 meters and is well served for processing. 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 is 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 kind of currant is perfect for this. You can find subspecies with small green or large yellowish toothed foliage.
Attention! Alpine currants are sensitive to aphids, rust and spider mites, so they must be sprayed with fungicide and insecticide. This shrub should also be systematically fertilized in spring and autumn, and the affected branches should be carefully removed.
Represents beautiful bush with a lush crown and delicate flowers of various colors. The most common are white and pink. This is a very thermophilic plant, therefore 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 an exuberant red-pink flowering that occurs in July for no more than 45 days. The shrub is quite frost-resistant and tolerant of growing in the shade.
A wild-style blackberry hedge, but the bushes can look pretty neat.
A hedge in Siberia
Siberia is rich in all kinds of vegetation, but not much of it is suitable for a hedge.
Medium and high fences
Besides barberry, hawthorn and all kinds of conifers in the harsh terrain perfectly takes root chokeberry, characterized by high resistance to wind and frost. The dense crown consists of small, glossy, dense green leaves that turn 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 white edging. Due to its simplicity and susceptibility to light haircuts, it is widespread in the northern part of Russia.
Climbing plants
Maiden grapes are well known in the northern countryside. But its popularity does not overshadow a plant like. They are curvy with beautiful flowers different colors... This is a fast-growing and very unpretentious bindweed that gets along with any plants.
Represents wonderful decoration internal site. Its processes die off in 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 increased density of vegetation. Its shade may vary depending on age. In the warm season, it blooms with small flowers. white about three weeks. Shoots die off in winter, so actinidia must be cut off in spring.
Actinidia kolomikta
The choice of seedlings for planting hedges is huge, the main thing is to determine which plants are suitable for your climatic zone.
About suitable plants in the video
A detailed story about the cultures from which you can make hedge, in the program "TeleDom".
A hedge in the country - perfect solution for those who want to elegantly and beautifully arrange the fence of the site, divide their garden into several parts using original means of delimitation and decorate the territory decoratively. For registration, you can use the most different kinds plants from tall evergreen conifers to flowering bushes.
An example of a hedge grown on a curb from natural stone
Features of the formation of a hedge with your own hands
It looks like a hedge of various shrubs
By alternating between low, medium and tall plant varieties, you can create a multi-stage hedge. AT small garden to delimit the site, it is better to plant one type of plant, and over a large area - many different varieties of trees and shrubs.
Types of hedges
To create a green fence from plantings, the most different varieties plants.
Diagram of the device and installation of the fence hedge
So, the following types of hedges are distinguished:
- Green hedge with climbing plants;
- Evergreen hedge of conifers;
- and deciduous trees;
- Curb hedge of low-growing 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 curbs (from half a meter). You can plant a hedge in one, two or more rows. According to the rate of formation, fast-growing or long-growing hedges are distinguished. The first category includes natural fences that can be formed in two years.
Fences are also soft and prickly. Soft fences are used to divide the area into sectors, and prickly hedges are often planted around the perimeter of the territory. If the plants do not require constant shearing and shaping, the hedge is called free-growing. Otherwise, the hedge must be molded.
Willow hedge example
Distinguish between 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;
- Fence, terrace, gazebo decoration;
- Braiding of tree trunks or poles;
- Decor of long-growing perennial lianas, for which I use fast-growing climbing annuals.
Climbing plants are widely used in design, and with proper care they perfectly fulfill their decorative function. Plant perennial varieties possible both in autumn and in early spring at 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.
Climbing hedge option
For better growth climbing and climbing plants require a support on which they climb up.
Perennial varieties
Perennial varieties of climbing plants grow in the same place for several years in a row, from year to year delighting the owner of the site. Among them are tree-like or herbaceous vines. Wild grapes are widely used in decoration. It is possible to green the site with it in enough short time and with the least expenditure of effort, time and money. The vines can be up to 20 meters long. When planting, the distance between plants is maintained at half a meter and grapes are planted in holes 30 cm deep.
In one season, it is already possible to get whips up to two meters long from the seedlings, and by the end of the second year of life, the whips completely cover the surface of the area allocated for them.
Wild grapes have good frost resistance, grows normally both in the sun and in the shade.
This is what a wild grape hedge looks like.
Evergreen ivy has also become an unpretentious climbing plant, which has become widespread for site decoration. Plant cuttings are planted at a distance of 30-50 cm from each other, and the vines rise upward with the help of sucker roots. Shoots require pruning in autumn. Frost-resistant varieties ivy is covered for the winter, and more tender and thermophilic plants are transplanted and kept in a bright cool room, periodically watering.
A very beautiful and widespread plant is a climbing rose. Roses bloom profusely and brightly, smell wonderful and create a festive mood. Roses require feeding, pruning and watering for normal growth. Also needed good protection from pests, for which in preventive and medicinal purposes use chemicals. Plant climbing rose autumn on sunny place, and for the winter they are covered with spruce branches and film.
Annual climbing plants
An example of a hedge made from various annual bushes
Of the annuals, nasturtium, tunbergia, morning glory, sweet peas, kobei, ornamental beans and pumpkin are often used.
Sweet pea has flowers of interesting shape and varied 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 sparsely, giving strength to the growth of leaves. Morning glory 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 in width, therefore, does not require planting frequency.
The thermophilic nasturtiums are very unpretentious. They are planted 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 hue.
Evergreen pine hedge
Evergreen conifers are often used to create an impenetrable hedge in an area. At the same time, such a green fence does not have to be looked after much, and it will be inexpensive. The only drawback when forming a coniferous hedge is the duration of the process. It will take at least three years to grow a coniferous hedge.
Another feature of the hedge is attractive appearance in any season. Coniferous plants do not have flowers; only occasionally they shed outdated 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.
It looks like a thuja hedge
When good care thuja does not fall off and does not fade, it is easily molded and sheared. The 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 quickly enough.
The varieties Brabant, Holmstrup and Smaragd are widespread. Brabant grows up to four meters in height and requires pruning twice a year. Thuja Holmstrup hedge can rise to a maximum of 2.5 meters and grows slowly. Caring for her is only watering. Thuja Smaragd is a plant up to six meters in height. It has a narrow conical crown, which is why many designers fell in love with it.
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-gray, purple and oriental spruce are used. Due to the density of the spruce crown, they cover the view well and make the hedge impassable. 
Saplings are better accepted for autumn planting. Warm dry weather is suitable for planting. Each seedling is planted in pits 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 spruces is maintained at least 80 cm. The spruce fence looks fresh at any time of the year.
Juniper hedge
Juniper is an evergreen shrub. Juniper needles can 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 flake varieties are also very popular. These frost-resistant species are distinguished by branching and tolerate an arid climate well. A juniper fence is unpretentious and can serve for many years.
An example of a juniper hedge
To prevent 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 shaped, 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.
Kalifolia vesicle
This bush has excellent characteristics for those who want to quickly plant greenery on their site. resistant to disease, tolerates frosty 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 you can let it grow in all directions. The bush has a standard round shape... Some landscape designers create fountains or square low fences. The height of the bush and its width are up to 3 meters. 
Pruning the plant should be carried out regularly, ridding it of growing, dry and diseased branches inside.
The best time for this is late fall or early spring, when very coldy were already asleep. It is important to do this at a time when the juices along the branches have not yet gained their usual speed in the warm season. Then you won't damage your plant. It is preferable to create a bush shape in spring. 
It is worth noting the variety of varieties. They are radically different from each other due to foliage color... She may be:
- purple, which may change to red in autumn period ("Diabolo", "Little Davil", "Coppertina");
- yellow with a golden sheen ("Darts Gold", "Luteus");
- the leaf has two colors at once: gold and burgundy ("Center Glow").
Is there some more dwarf variety "Nana", which is painted in a rich green 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 southern regions;
- oval-leaved;
- drooping;
- the middle one hibernates without loss.
Important! Fertilizers are important for forcesia: organic fertilizers are applied in autumn, mineral fertilizers - in spring. And also - pruning, which is carried out every year. Without these actions, the bush becomes very weak.
Privet
- "Kobold" is a spherical bush no higher than 30 cm with bright green leaves that turn yellow-orange by autumn;
- "Baguette" - round form, no higher than 40 cm, has red leaves, which, when grown in the sun, turn brown, and in the shade - green;
- "Admiration" - grows into a ball with a diameter of 50 cm and has a unique foliage, which is purple inside, and has a light border at the edges;
- "Speshal Gold" is a dense golden crown that turns pink in autumn;
- "Atropurpurea Nana" - purple-red bush, up to 60 cm high, 1 m wide;
- "Green Carpet" - does not grow taller than 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 and conditions (soil, lighting, etc.). In addition, you should decide whether your hedge will be free-growing (this takes more space) or you plan to form it (this saves space, but requires serious maintenance).
Now you can start choosing plants for your hedge. We have selected shrubs suitable for this purpose. You can plant them as soon as construction is over.
If you are planting a hedge along a fence, before picking plants, you need to pay attention to which side the sun is shining from in your case and whether your chosen plants will have enough light.
10 most unpretentious and friendly
Derain
If you want to save money, you can buy one large bush and make several of it. Classic "fences" derens - white, blood red and scion (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 : Unpretentious: most types of deren grow on almost any soil, in the sun and in partial shade. Winter hardiness. Rapid growth rate: any of the common varieties of deer will reach 1 m in height in the first year. Bright bark that adorns the garden in winter.
Minuses : With a short stature, 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 better suited for larger areas. Very interesting due to the narrow long leavesfluttering in the wind basket willow (S. viminalis) and willow schwerina (S. schwerinii). If we turn to the varieties, then among the willows there are excellent candidates for planting on completely small area: willow white (S. alba) "Sericea", ashy "Variegata", rosemary (S. rosmarinifolia), whole-leaved (S. integra) "Hakura Nishiki" and " Pendula", purple (S. purpurea) "Nana".A moist substrate is most suitable for willows. They are not demanding on mechanical and chemical composition, but grow best on acidic (pH 5-6), not particularly saline soils.
pros : They are unpretentious and develop quickly. Easy to propagate: willow cuttings take root well.
Minuses : Demanding on soil moisture and sensitive to soil acidity.
Bubble plant
Large (3-4 m - height and diameter) shrub with a dense crown. The shoots first grow vertically upward, then bend in picturesque arcs. Creates a hedge that is completely opaque in summer and quite dense in winter. Bubble feels good on almost any soil: light sandy, heavy clay and rocky. He dislikes only alkaline soils, preferring neutral and acidic (pH from 4.5 to 6.5). Put up with a lack of watering. All bladders tolerate cutting very well, which allows them to form bushes with dense compact crowns.
pros : Unpretentiousness. High growth rate - 30-40 cm (and up to 1 m) per year in favorable conditions... Practically not susceptible to pests. It successfully adapts to various environmental conditions (including the polluted urban atmosphere). Almost all varieties of bladderworm are frost-resistant.
Minuses : Sensitive to soil acidity (does not like alkaline environment). It tolerates shading, but will not grow in deep shadow. Varieties with colored leaves, even with slight shading, change their color to green.
Cotoneaster brilliant
Typically, the cotoneaster is used for low to 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. It grows quickly under favorable conditions.
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 formative pruning.
Black chokeberry
Maple Tatar and Ginnala maple are similar to each other and in external 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 "run away", it is necessary to provide for a restriction on the sides of the planting trench, for example, laying a wide curb tape.
pros : Tolerate haircut well and grow quickly.
Minuses : Tendency to form root growth. Photophilous. In partial shade they lose their bright color. In both species, the trunks become bare rather quickly. If this is undesirable, it is necessary immediately, without waiting for the crowns to close, to form a trapezoidal profile of the fence. 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.
Well, finally, the maximum practical option use useful area - mixed free growing hedge ... For example, you can plant different lilac and chubushniki e.g. high crown mock-orange (Philadelphus coronarius) or numerous varieties common mock-orange (Philadelphus pallidus), shading them with shorter rose hips in the foreground. They will bloom at different times, and the hedge will retain its beauty for most of the season.
Minuses of this option: Difficulties in the selection of plants so that they are harmoniously combined with each other and at the same time they are suitable for 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 relaxation through an evergreen hedge.
A green hedge can be freely growing (natural) or sheared, deciduous or coniferous, soft or thorny, multi-row or single-row, combined or created from shrubs and plants of the same species. It all depends on the tasks set.
Evergreen hedge
Before you start designing your own hedge design, consider which plants are most suitable for forming this kind of garden fence?
So, if you need to disguise unsightly corners of the garden (for example, a barn or fence), decorate a terrace, a gazebo or cover the trunks of old trees, use such popular climbing plants as:
1. Treelike or herbaceous perennial vines:
Honeysuckle honeysuckle - curly fragrant vine
Campsis - woody deciduous vine 
Common hops (curly) 
Actinidia kolomikta - woody vine (creeper) 
Schisandra chinensis - deciduous vine 
For normal development and growth, fast-growing climbing plants need a solid support. It can be a wooden or metal frame, netting. With good support, curly hedges will grow much faster.
Attention! A fast growing hedge requires timely pruning and shaping. If the green fence is not maintained in proper condition, it will look shapeless and neglected.
In the following photos of the hedge, 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 vines for seasonal hedges:
If perennial decorative 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 vines - quickly fill empty spaces, create vertical color spots and profusely blooming screens.
It is necessary to plant flowering annual plants 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 summer cottages from uninvited guests, most often tall deciduous and coniferous shrubs are used when laying a green hedge.
Coniferous hedges
Making a hedge from conifers will not be expensive and laborious. However, this is not a quick process, and the growth of one such fence can take at least three years. Another, not so significant drawback of coniferous fences is the invariable appearance. In winter and summer, firs, junipers and spruces enliven the garden with greenery, but do not bloom.
To make a living fence more colorful, evergreen conifers can be used as a background. Next to them, both traditional garden flowers and alpine plants look great.
A life tree serves as a barrier against entering the territory, perfectly protects the garden from exhaust gases, extraneous noise and dust from the street, traps snow and masks unaesthetic buildings outside the site.
Living fence made of thuja, with proper care, will never fall or wither. Thuja is one of the easiest to care for and unpretentious evergreens. She easily tolerates shaping and transplanting.
In order to create a dense impenetrable living wall from plants, planting must be carried out in one row through 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 from fir trees include: prickly spruce, eastern, Siberian, purple and gray. The dense crown and good branching of these conifers completely obscures the view of the site and clearly defines the boundaries of the garden zones.
Young coniferous trees are planted in warm autumn, in a fairly loose and moist soil of a trench up to 50 cm deep.When planting a single-row coniferous hedge, maintain a distance of 1 m between seedlings.In the case of a two-row planting (as in the hedge scheme a little lower), the interval between the trees must be at least 80 cm.
Juniper hedge
Impenetrable thickets can be created by means of Cossack juniper with green or bluish needles. The rapidly growing hedge will be formed by the Virginia 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 a scaly or Chinese juniper is quite suitable for you as a green fence. They branch well and can easily withstand severe frosts.
To minimize accidental openings, juniper seedlings are planted in a checkerboard pattern with a large clod of soil. Over time, when the trees grow a little, it is necessary to evenly cut off all the tops. This will keep the juniper as tidy as possible.
Deciduous hedges
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 in two years grow together into the wall, you can begin to mold them.
Willow hedge
Such a hedge can be grown in both swampy and arid areas. Using two-year-old woody cuttings for planting (these 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 something like this.
Literally in a couple of years, the willow hedge in the country (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 conifers) period of time.
Hawthorn hedge
In addition to the bright decorative foliage, hawthorns bloom very beautifully. And in winter they are good. Until spring, their branches are decorated with red fruits, similar to apples in miniature.
Planting a hawthorn hedge always begins with the preparation of holes located at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Hawthorn seedlings should be chosen quite large - from 3 to 5 years. The next year, they must be cut off, leaving a stump 10 cm high above the ground.
Rosehip hedge
Some species of rose hips are capable of reaching three meters in height in several years. Considering this fact and the fact that rose hips, like roses, grow strongly, they can be planted in one row. And only when the garden needs a wide hedge for landscaping - seedlings are placed in a checkerboard pattern, sometimes in two, less often in three rows.
Blooming rose hips 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 disease.
Council. Fast growing hedge shrubs require manual pruning of both the tops of the branches and inner stems... This will keep the hedge tidy and allow sunlight to penetrate deep into the bush. Hedge trimming is carried out at the end of winter, at a time when the tree or bush is not budding (is at rest).
Medium plant hedges
A decorative hedge in shape can be high, medium and low (up to half a meter). And it can be molded (sheared) and unshaped (free-growing).
The distance when planting a hedge depends on the size and shape of plant growth. So for high hedges (which gardeners call among themselves 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 done using the following medium-sized and low-growing shrubs:
Red and black elderberry hedge
Due to the extremely fast growth of shoots, the elderberry must be strongly (short) pruned (even the cut branches of the bush give abundant growth).
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 covered with shiny scarlet berries.
Blooming hedge of hydrangea tree
Treelike hydrangeas bloom long and profusely - from July to mid-autumn. The height of the lush, very spreading hemispherical bushes with numerous flexible shoots is about 1.5 m.
For novice gardeners (for those who have not yet come across such a concept as a hedge), buying a hydrangea grown in a nursery is a real success. Saplings bought directly from the manufacturer (located in the same climatic zone, where the shrub will grow in the future), take root better in the garden and develop faster.
Viburnum hedge
Viburnum ordinary, throughout the spring pleasing the eye with pink foam of flowers, and in the fall of coral-red scattering of fruits, has long been prescribed in many domestic gardens.
Viburnum hedge bushes grown in the garden will have the shape that a person will give it by cutting. Viburnum looks advantageous (goes well) 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 not less adored conifers. Spirea (meadowsweet) was no exception. This deciduous shrub with a varied bush shape: hemispherical, pyramidal, erect, etc., develops quite quickly. In 2-3 years, this undemanding culture reaches its full growth, forming a long-lasting spirea fence with abundant flowering.
Lilac hedge
It seems incredible, but such a decorative hedge in a summer cottage is almost irresistible. Simple varieties of lilacs densely fill the lower tier with flexible branches, which makes the living wall impenetrable neither for humans, nor for many animals. (A lilac fence will be even stronger if you periodically intertwine the grown seedlings crosswise, securing 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 the correct geometric shape - bosquets.
So, for the design of walls with clear contours, the most suitable tree speciesthat perfectly tolerate the haircut.
If the curb fence is used to fence a flower garden or as a decorative living frame, then it is important that the plants for the curb do not distract attention from themselves from the accent flower arrangement. They grew slowly, were persistent, tidy and not capricious.
Shaped hedges (plants for which it is better to choose shade-tolerant plants with relatively slow growth) can be prickly and thornless, deciduous and coniferous.
Yew hedge
In the harsh climate of Russia, high impenetrable fences are rarely created from yews, most often they form low curbs - yew branches, growing slowly and perfectly branching, create a very dense texture. These shrubs are recommended to be planted in sheltered places - this way the breed will better retain its appearance after a harsh winter and will give abundant fruiting.
It is necessary to cut such a live thorny hedge when the crowns of neighboring trees close together. But since the yew grows very slowly, you will have to wait a couple of years with molding.
Boxwood hedge
Boxwood is a compact plant with a beautiful dense leaf - a traditional element of classical landscape design. In order to make a straight line of hedge out of boxwood, you must:
use a tape measure to mark the length of the fence;
fix a distance of 35 cm between the bushes;
hammer the pegs at the ends of the furrow and pull the rope between them;
check how much the hedge will be parallel to the fence.
By means of some boxwood thickets, you can create whole mazes. It is recommended to start cutting the boxwood shrub the next year after planting. And this should be done exclusively in the evening (bright sunlight can burn the tips of trimmed leaves).
The hedge of the brilliant cotoneaster
Although the cotoneaster grows slowly, it forms an impenetrable, dense crown, from the very spring covered with pinkish white inflorescences, and in late autumn burgundy leafy.
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 the deciduous shrub branch quite strongly, so they need to be planted at a distance of at least one meter from each other.
Common barberry hedge
Intense purple colors in autumn, incredible fragrance in spring and abundant fruiting in summer - these are all hedges, the price of which depends on the growing method and the right plants. So, a barberry hedge will cost you much more (from 2000 rubles for 1 running meter) if you order its project from a company that provides landscape services. Whereas a fast-growing hedge, made with your own hands in the country, will cost you five times less.
Privet hedge
From privet, especially beloved by all gardeners, formed hedges are most often grown. They are cut at least 3 times a year using manual and mechanical garden toolssuch as large scissors, secateurs, hacksaws, hand saws, chainsaws, trimmers.
(The height of the privet hedge will be uniform if the shear is carried out on a cord stretched through the pegs installed on the tops of the extreme plants).
Mahonia holly hedge
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", the first wintering young plants do not tolerate very well. Do not be lazy and cover the evergreen living fence with spruce branches.
Hedge (fence) from forsythia
In early spring, when most of the shrubs and trees in your dacha 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, forsythia is still adorned with dark green leaves.
Due to their exceptional decorativeness, forsythia shrubs look good both in complex compositions with other plants, and in group plantings.
Japanese quince hedge (henomeles)
Highly decorative shrub with bright colors grown in the curb and is actively used in landscape design. Such a hedge can be used to decorate any farm building, giving it even some glamor and mystery.
Selection of plants and shrubs for hedges
Regardless of the purpose and types of hedges, you should choose the plants correctly and plant them correctly:
- a living fence will grow without problems in the garden if you use only those conifers and deciduous trees that tolerate the climatic conditions of our country well;
- for shaded areas of the garden, you need to select shade-tolerant woody shrubs, and for well-lit areas, those that bloom profusely and grow well;
- if you do not have time to engage in constant shaping and haircutting (or you don’t want to), then grow an unformed hedge of lilac, honeysuckle, chubushnik, apple tree, viburnum or irgi;
- protect, decorate the garden and saturate the air with the most beneficial phytoncides for the coniferous hedge;
- deciduous and conifers it is allowed to alternate - only if you are not embarrassed by the fact that the hedge in winter will be slightly transparent 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 perennial plants - it is both very dense and light site fencing;
- a green hedge in the garden will not only decorate it, but also bear edible fruits if you plant such useful shrubs as gooseberries, cotoneaster, sea buckthorn, barberry, currants, henomeles, shepherdia, wild rose, hawthorn, viburnum, etc.
Often, multi-stage hedges are created from low-growing shrubs. And if you are a clear fan of design delights, then the hedge) will surely suit your taste. Just keep in mind that single-breed hedges are not bad for gardens. small size, and heterogeneous - for large ones.
Living hedge - photo for inspiration and ideas
Well, and finally, a photo of a hedge for the pros!