Gardening Guides: Hedgerow

Functions and types of hedges.
In hedges several functions. If you look at this element of the garden, from the perspective of landscape design, this is one of its main elements. Hedge divides the land, creates harmony, comfort, and the geometric rigor. In terms of gardening, hedge is protection of fruit crops for your garden, from the icy winter winds and the scorching summer sun. Do not forget about protection from dust and noise. Not least in our time.

Hedge, itself serves as a decorative composition, but it can also serve as a backdrop for flowers and stunted shrubs giving them additional charm emphasizing the details.

External and internal hedges vary in height and have different purposes clear from the title. There are hedges of one type of plant or several. The first requires greater care and look more beautiful and more severe. The second type of hedges will save you time, but usually they take up more space.

One-species of evergreen hedges, clipped plants the most popular with garden designers. It will look great all year round.

In forming the hedges, you need to take into account the penetration of the sun’s rays on the lower branches. If they will not be enough light, then your track will have a different color shade that will look bad for a panoramic overview. Moreover, in low light penetration, there is likely to be infected plants. Just keep in mind the degree of oppressed among other plants. This will be discussed in the articles section – gardening.

The history of hedgerows.
This type of garden design came to us from Europe. Hedges originally appeared in medieval monasteries and aristocratic gardens. Later they migrated to urban landscaping. Although if we take into account the Russian village fence, we can say that the history of the hedge, we also have the attitude.

Hedge shrubs beginning applied in our country on an industrial scale in large farm gardens bookmarks. Thanks to our climate, this kind of defense is popular until now. Hedges in the field, constrain the snow and act vetrolomami.

Plants for hedges.
Before selecting plants for hedges, decide for yourself four questions: For what purposes are hedges, whether it be a hairstyle, height, duration for which you want to, that he formed.

Goals is two, and decorative fencing. If you do not want to spend time grooming, this is one group of plants, but if you have the right aesthetic lines, then you need to plant plants that need, and carry haircut.

For neformiruemoy hedge suit elder, honeysuckle, Tatarian and Maak, saskatoon, hawthorn, sumac, lilac persian, barberry Tunberg, wrinkled rose, snowberry white, almond low, Prunus tomentosa, etc.

If you want to fence in your area from uninvited guests, then plant a hedge of barberry. Very beautiful plant, but having the studs. Barberry is considered the most thorny plants for hedges. Though it is not nice to cut, hardly anyone dares to cross a barbed-brush.

Excellent in the hedge will look hawthorn. This shrub is considered a classic plant for hedges. He tenevynosliv. His crown is symmetrical. The leaves change color in autumn.

Coniferous trees also look great in a series of hedges. This applies particularly to tuyam. Most of these species are well cutting our hair. They are frost-resistant and hardy to the city’s smoke. These plants should be used in the design of the garden, if its main task is to correct geometry.

As we have already mentioned above, before you buy seedlings, decide the height of future hedges. For meter fence (also called border) suitable: barberry Tunberg, gooseberries, boxwood and alpine currant. Three-meter (hedge): Hawthorn, cherry steppe, honeysuckle, saskatoon, cotoneaster. For high, more than three meters, fencing (live wall) can be used: maple, blackthorn, larch, western thuja, and bird cherry. This list is not definitive. You can find most plants given: frost, height and soil composition. Do not forget about this aspect as the climate. Be careful: expensive, advertised plants are often not suitable for our area.

Bookmark hedge.
Hedges, occupy one place very long time, so training must begin with the soil. To do this, dig a trench with a bayonet spade. Width from 0,5 to 1,5 meters. Depending on the plants you have applied for hedges. At the bottom of the pour peat, manure or humus, and loosened all the forks. Now you can plant seedlings. Cover up their land should be mixed with organic fertilizer.

Saplings should be reconsidered and separate dead, broken roots. They should be planted in moist soil.

Planted saplings of deciduous plants trimmed to 1 / 3. hawthorn should be cut by 15-17 cm of soil. And evergreen conifers after planting process means to impede evaporation of moisture.

Further processing is different from other garden crops. Watering during the hot days and dressing during the growing season.

Hedge on “quick fix”.
Quick options to address barriers new site will be a hedge of willow. This suit almost all types except the willow white willow (willow), too high tree and broom, it is not very durable.

For such hedges need to hammer the pins with cross members along the perimeter of the site (by type of trellis) and along them to plant cuttings of willow. For a thick hedge, through a cutting should be planted at an angle. Subsequently, to have adopted cuttings, bind to each other, and on the site is not accepted – to plant new ones.

Hedge, an essential element and an integral part of any garden. Its versatile functions and a decorative element for years to come will not only please the eye, but also to protect you and your garden from external influences. Besides, you can always hide behind the hedge of any unnecessary element area.

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