Decorative green hedge. Hedge: what to plant under a fence or instead of it. Plants and shrubs for hedges

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Most of the plants are deciduous. In winter it is impossible to get through the fence, but it loses its decorative effect.

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The name of the hedge determines its care. Trees and bushes are constantly trimmed, giving them the most fantastic shapes. Trees tolerate constant pruning well different types thuja. To create a green miracle in the place where the fence should be, use a small-leaved shrub:

• euonymus;
• cotoneaster;
• Privet is a wolfberry.

It is necessary to form plants constantly, creating a hedge in the country, as the branches grow. The first few years are spent creating a thick, uniform crown. Then it is produced curly trimming every 2 weeks and the fence is formed, creating an image for it.

Trimmed hedges are distinguished by their originality. They evoke admiration from neighbors and people passing by, demonstrating good taste the owner and the wonderful abilities of the gardener.

Curly

Climbing plants - vines - need support. They will braid it and repeat the size and shape. You can create a fast-growing hedge in your dacha using vines:

• girl's grapes;
• hop;
• ivy;
• Chinese lemongrass;
• clematis.

Climbing plants need support

From early spring to late autumn, a climbing hedge looks decorative. The leaves change color, flowers and fruits appear. Deciduous vines bloom in early spring and retain their foliage until frost.

Classification of hedges by height

Depending on the purpose, living fences are made of varying heights and densities.

Experts divide them into types, and advise, if there is space, to plant a multi-row hedge of different levels or use plants of the same type with different leaf colors.

Living wall

Green fences more than 2 meters high are called living walls. Suitable for them:

• mountain pine;
• Niedzwiecki apple tree;
• juniper;
• creepers.

High hedges are located along the border of the site, mainly on the street side. Ornamental shrubs can be planted in front of them, which will cover them securely. bottom part fences will close the gaps in it.

Living wall made of thuja

Zoning of the site

It is necessary to divide the area into zones and dissociate. To do this, it is enough to make a hedge at the dacha with a height of 1 to 2 meters. To plant an internal fence you can buy ornamental shrub one or more types. The choice is huge:

• hawthorn;
• elder;
• currant;
• rose hip;
• honeysuckle;
• mock orange;
• viburnum;
• caragana;
• spirea;
• tea rose;
• barberry;
• lilac;
• Euonymus.

There are other types of less popular plants that are easy to buy and solve the question of what to make a garden fence from relatively cheaply.

The photo shows Thunberg's barberry.

This plant is widely used in landscape design

Fruit and berry bushes, for example: hawthorn, barberry and currants, in addition to beauty, will bring benefits. They will generously give you their harvest in the fall. The tea rose blooms for more than a month, spreading a magical aroma. The jam made from its petals is delicious, cures colds and adds the warmth of hot summer to winter tea drinking.

Borders for lawns and flower beds

Fences less than a meter high are classified as borders and are used to frame paths and flower beds. They are often made from flowers - perennials and ornamental shrubs:

• action;
• Alpine currant;
• hydrangea;
• barberry;
• derain;
• Japanese spirea;
• hawthorn.

In borders, types of shrubs such as barberry, derain, currant, and hawthorn should be pruned. They will look good in a rectangular shape if the summer resident has not yet mastered the cultivation of fences of complex configurations. An example is shown in the photo below.

Such a green border will look good over a wide area

Main types of plants for fences

A fence grown for a dacha with your own hands can reliably protect the site and look beautiful all year round. Plants should be selected and planted correctly. A multi-row, well-groomed hedge made from several types of bushes and trees looks like a work of art.

Evergreens

For hedges over 2 meters in the southern regions, cypress is used. The tree has a dense crown, grows quickly and tolerates pruning well. In regions with cold winter Cypress trees must be covered for the winter. This can be done separately standing trees. Therefore, they are not used in walls.

Popular coniferous trees for green walls that do not lose their attractiveness in winter:

• mountain pine;
• yew berry;
• juniper.

The most popular are thujas.

Thuja will serve faithfully as a fence

Thuja is a frost-resistant, long-living plant with a dense pyramidal, columnar or spherical crown. It depends on the variety. The needles have a rich palette of green colors - from lemon to blue. Thuja easily tolerates pruning. Not demanding on soils and fertilizing. Resistant to various diseases.

Mountain pine has long needles on densely spaced branches. Used in free-growing fences. When planted in 2 rows with an interval of 1.5 m, it creates a thick wall from the ground itself. It looks especially beautiful when it starts to bloom. Pruning does not affect density.

Pine grows slowly and does not like heavily fertilized soils. Tolerates frost and drought well. Ideal plant for hedges in the absence of free time for constant care.

Yew berry is a long-lasting plant with a columnar crown. It grows slowly. Used in free-growing fences and tolerates pruning well. Looks beautiful in the spring during flowering and when the red berries ripen.
When planting spruce, you must wait patiently for the first 10 years.

Then the growth of the tree increases sharply, and the spruce quickly forms green wall. Trimming is not recommended. Fences with plants that have different shades needles, from bright green to blue. For borders they use specially grown by breeders dwarf variety with a spherical crown.

Juniper can be planted as a bush and tree. It grows quickly and tolerates pruning easily. It is recommended to plant biennial plants. The needles have different shades.

The photo below shows a juniper.

Its needles exude a pleasant forest scent

The video below shows the intricacies of constructing a living fence made of coniferous plants.

Deciduous shrubs

A cheap deciduous shrub sheds its leaves in the winter and loses its decorative effect, but still serves as a reliable barrier. Fruit plants In winter they decorate with berries - a delicacy for birds. In landscape design, the following are most often used:

• cotoneaster;
• privet;
• hawthorn;
• barberry;
• rose hip;
• Spiraea.

Drought-resistant cotoneaster blooms beautifully, and clusters of berries appear on it closer to autumn. It grows slowly and retains its shape for a long time after being cut. The low-maintenance plant easily tolerates replanting.

Privet tolerates pruning well and is used more often than other plants in urban landscape design. Blooms with white small inflorescences. Because of its black, inedible fruits, the bush received the name “wolf berry” and is rarely planted in dachas. The advantage of privet is its unpretentiousness to the type and fertility of the soil. It grows equally well in sun and shade.

The photo shows the common privet.

Privet is perfect for fencing an area

Hawthorn fruits are not only edible, but also used in folk medicine and are recognized by pharmacists. They decorate frost-resistant bushes from late summer. A decorative look is given to the hawthorn fence and carved leaves. If desired, the hawthorn can be trimmed.

Barberry is known for its rich palette of leaf colors. The deciduous plant has thorns that decorate its branches in winter and prevent strangers from passing through the living fence. During the flowering period it emits a delicate pleasant smell. It tolerates shearing easily and can grow in loose plantings.

A rosehip hedge is more reliable than any artificial one. Dense branches with large thorns look menacing and beautiful at the same time. Delicate pink flowers smell pleasant. The red-orange fruits contain a lot of vitamin C and others.

Spirea is popularly called the Bride for its curved, wreath-like branches dotted with white flowers. Spiraea begins to bloom in May. The shrub is grown free-growing. Pruning reduces its decorative effect.

Decorative fencing made of bushes

Lianas

Lianas cannot lift their flexible stems up on their own, so they need support.

To form a hedge, climbing branches are not cut, but are directed to be made from various materials:

1. Lattice made of wooden slats.
2. Plastic mesh.
3. Artificial.
4. Decorative forged.

On such fences, the flowering vine looks better and is conveniently located. An artificial fence can be completely covered with greenery or partially peek out from under the leaves.

On your summer cottage you can build a gazebo from inexpensive materials. Then grow maiden grapes around it and the artificial building will turn into fairytale house fairies. Other options are also possible.

Maiden grapes can hide the most unsightly wall. With its antennae it clings to the slightest irregularities and independently covers all nearby supports. The vine grows 2 meters per season and produces many side branches.

In early spring, girlish grapes bloom their light green glossy leaves. They quickly darken and grow. At the end of summer, crimson begins to appear. In order for a climbing fence to grow better, it needs to be trimmed a little at the end of each season. Branches extending beyond the fences are trimmed.

The video below goes into detail about vines and other climbing plants.

A hedge is an excellent alternative to a conventional fence. This is an excellent element of landscape design that hides the area from prying eyes, serves as a screen from dust and wind, and performs a security function. Evergreen hedge not only pleases the eye, but also makes the space more harmonious.

When choosing plants for a hedge, you should consider the following factors:

• Desired fence height.
• Purpose.
• Climatic conditions.
• Features of the site (soil type, lighting, humidity).

Fast growing shrubs for hedges: elderberry, forsythia, euonymus, currant, mock orange, cotoneaster, honeysuckle, sloe, privet, hawthorn, roses, broom, Thunberg barberry. If the choice fell on a single-tier high hedge, you can choose trees - maples, poplars, willow, linden, rowan, turf, buckthorn, chokeberry, hazel, lilac and others.

TOP 10 ideas for hedges

Hedge-border

Such a hedge should not be higher than 50 cm. Choose dwarf plants(lingonberry, Lawson cypress, Thunberg barberry, dwarf caragana, boxwood and others). The alternation of evergreens and flowering plants. For example, boxwood with rose hips or climbing roses.

Important! A border fence will be a wonderful frame for any element - a flower bed, fountain, pond or playground!

Fence for zoning space

The idea is especially relevant if the area is small, and to separate economic zone I want from the garden and vegetable garden. Shrubs up to 1 meter high look best - they will not shade the area and at the same time look very colorful. They can be planted either symmetrically or in wavy lines.

Unusual shapes for hedges

It’s clear that only professionals can cut a mammoth or a dinosaur from a bush. However, elements in the shape of a cube, wave, arch or rectangle on the site will also look great! And caring for them is a feasible task even for novice gardeners.

Colorful hedge

Multi-level structures are now in fashion, your trick may be in the choice of plants for the hedge. One row can be formed from red-leaved boxwood, the second from green juniper, the third from gray spruce. Your site will acquire unexpected color and contrast.

Blooming wall

Choose fast-growing shrubs for hedges - hawthorn, spirea, blood-red currant. Their flowering lasts 3-4 weeks, and border flowering plants can be planted at the foot of the hedge - this way your garden will be pleasing to the eye all season long.

Original mix

You can alternate plants with other elements. The result will be a kind of chess game that looks very interesting! The hedge can be supplemented with wooden modules, brick pillars, wattles, gabions, large boulders and other elements.

Improvisation with an old fence

Let's say you have an ugly old fence. It seems like a shame to demolish it, and it spoils the appearance of the site. Using a simple wire structure, you can form a support for climbing plants and containers with plants. Pots can be filled with seedlings, flowers or herbs. Among climbing plants we can recommend climbing roses, grapes, hydrangea, clematis, honeysuckle, wisteria. Why not a hedge?

"Living" walls

An evergreen hedge doesn't necessarily take up a lot of space. Install wooden or mesh supports as desired and plant vines, ivy or grapes near them. “Walls” located at an angle look great. By the way, it is quite possible to hide a recreation area or a sandbox behind them.

Wild garden

The stereotype that a hedge should be trimmed to a line, with millimeter precision, is hopelessly outdated. If the size of the plot allows, you can give preference to an unshaped fence. Its width can reach 1-2 meters. A combination of plants with different flowering periods looks impressive. For example, combine barberry, rosehip and mock orange in one hedge.

Fence of fruit bushes

We combine business with pleasure! Felt cherry, gooseberries, blackberries, currants, chokeberry, barberry! The distance between the bushes is 40-50 cm. Beautiful and tasty!

Photos of hedges

We also suggest looking at a selection of beautiful and fashionable hedges. Some of them are classics of landscape design, while others are the most fashionable trends.

A hedge is not just three trees standing in a row! This is an opportunity to try yourself as a landscape designer and bring your ideas to life! Both you and your loved ones will surely like this decoration of the site!

At the dacha it is a good alternative to a conventional fence. In addition to the fact that the green screen perfectly protects the area from uninvited guests, it simply attracts admiring glances with its vibrant beauty, enriching everything around it not only with natural aesthetics, but also with 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 to plant on your site as a green fence, it is best to rely not only on taste preferences or comparison of whimsicality individual species. The correct guideline in such a question 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.

Hedge in the Moscow region

There are many types of plants for planting in the Moscow region; all that remains is to decide what height of hedge you prefer.

Green walls

For those who have decided to literally isolate themselves from outside world and surround yourself with an impenetrable fence more than 2 meters high, you need to pay attention to the plant species described below.

El Serbskaya makes an excellent evergreen tree for creating 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 not at all whimsical and does not need pruning. The needles have a rich shiny dark green color. The variety withstands winter frosts and grows well in urban environments.

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 Niedzvedsky 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 not tall, rare specimens reach a height of 8 m. But it is distinguished by its high growth rate, life expectancy, unpretentiousness and good resistance to diseases, pests and frost.

It is a cone-shaped tree, reaching a height of 4 m in a fence, and up to 20 m in a free planting. With sufficient watering per year, the thuja crown grows in width by no more than 10 cm, and in height by an average of 30 cm. This is a tree with a cone-shaped crown is widely used in landscape design because of its rich bright green color and unpretentiousness. If you want to grow a branched coniferous plant, then regular pruning will help.

Thuja occidentalis "Brabant" responds well to pruning. The photo shows a fairly free version of a hedge made from this thuja, but it allows you to set even more precise shapes.

Hornbeam has a lot of types that are successfully used in landscape design. But the most popular and more suitable for the Moscow region is the common hornbeam. It not only creates an impenetrable hedge, but also perfectly protects the area from noise and dust. It is this variety that is unpretentious, easy to mold and resistant to winter conditions. In addition, the common hornbeam is not susceptible to diseases and is resistant to pests.

An example of a creative green hornbeam sculpture.

Hawthorn- This is a traditional plant in Russia, used as a hedge. The most commonly used species is Prickly, which has powerful thorns and an oval crown. The plant reaches a height of 5 meters. The variety blooms in May with five-petaled flowers of white or Pink colour, the fruits ripen at the end of September and are purple in color with yellow flesh.

An example of a tall hawthorn hedge.

Hawthorn Green-meat. This variety is highly valued 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 thanks to its dark fruits with green flesh. It 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. It stands out for its decorative qualities barberry thunberg. Its small leaves can have different colors: yellow, red, pink and even brown. Another feature is that it is not susceptible to fungal diseases. But this variety is a slow-growing shrub with inedible fruits, reaching a maximum height of 1.5 m.

Thunberg barberry hedge

It is an unpretentious shrub that grows from 2 to 4 m. Its leaves are distinguished by their oblong shape and shiny dark green color. Flowering begins in early July with small cream flowers with pleasant aroma. The fruits ripen at the end of September and acquire small size and glossy black color. In common people they are called wolfberry. Privet is easy to shape, but also looks good growing wild.

A hedge 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 lends itself well to processing. This variety of thuja belongs to evergreens with a neat bright green crown. It tolerates winter and many plant diseases well.

Decorative living borders

Perfect for creating a small hedge up to 1 meter high. alpine currant. She tolerates cold and wind well, but does not like high temperatures. If you are looking for the best way 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 jagged foliage.

Attention! Alpine currants are sensitive 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 affected branches should also be carefully removed.

It is a beautiful shrub with a lush crown and delicate flowers different colors. The most common are white and pink. This is a very heat-loving plant, so it needs to 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. Deytsia loves fertilized soil, but it is best to feed it during the flowering period.

In the photo - Deutzia graceful ‘Nikko’

Spiraea japonica 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 tolerates growing in the shade.

Spiraea japonica Double Pink

Known for its beautiful blooms of lush inflorescences of a soft cream color. It lasts for more than two months. Hydrangea is no more than 1 m in height, but has a very lush crown and large leaves of rich green color. Quite unpretentious and winter-hardy. However, it is susceptible to disease.

Hedge in central Russia

Central Russia has a very harsh climate, so it is better to choose plants for hedges that are unpretentious and resistant to harsh weather conditions.

High fences

In addition to Western thuja, it grows well in this area Spruce Regular and Blue. Both of these species are highly resistant to frost and wind. The first type is distinguished by a cone-shaped crown, reaching a height of more than 5 m and sickle-shaped needles. Prickly or Blue spruce known for the interesting color of its needles: from bright blue to bluish-green. Does not tolerate too fertile soil and a large layer of snow on the branches.

Blue spruce hedge

Red cedar very similar to a coniferous tree, but differs in small needles - no more than 2 mm. It has a pyramidal and dense crown, which thins out over time in continuous planting. But this can be corrected by planting shade-loving herbs.

Medium height hedge

They take root well in this climatic region. any types of barberry, blackberry, raspberry, hawthorn and spirea. Grows especially well juniper Cossack, which is a shrub whose height reaches no more than 1.5 meters. It is usually used in solitary plantings.

The blackberry hedge is in a “wild style”, but the bushes can look quite neat.

Or as it is often mistakenly called, jasmine is a lush deciduous shrub with delicate flowers of white, cream or soft pink with a scent of varying intensities. The leaves are small, matte, light green. This is a fairly winter-hardy shrub with a powerful root system, although it loves sunny places for planting.

"Curly" hedge

Grapes Maiden presents with lush, dense green foliage of a bizarre shape, colored in autumn period from bright red to lemon yellow. It is very unpretentious, but is capable of filling a huge area with its sprouts. For those who do not know how to make a hedge with their own hands or are creating it for the first time, then maiden grapes are an excellent solution.

Five-leaf maiden grape 'Veitch Boskoop'

Creates a beautiful decorative vine ivy. It can decorate any fence or building. Refers to slow growing and shade-tolerant plants, requiring fertile soils. There are many species that are equally resistant to harsh weather conditions, but differ in the shape and color of the foliage and inflorescences.

Hedge in Siberia

Siberia is rich in all kinds of vegetation, but not much of it is suitable for constructing a hedge.

Medium and high fences

Besides barberry, hawthorn and all kinds of conifers survives well in harsh terrain chokeberry, characterized by high resistance to winds and frost. The dense crown consists of small, glossy, dense green leaves that turn purple in the fall. The height of the tree can exceed two meters.

Derain white very unpretentious and tall plant. Its leaves are light green with white edges. Due to its simplicity and susceptibility to easy cutting, it is widespread in the northern part of Russia.

climbing plants

Maiden grapes are well known in the northern region. But its popularity does not overshadow such a plant as. They are lush with beautiful flowers different colors. This is a fast-growing and very unpretentious bindweed that gets along with any plants.

It is a wonderful decoration for the interior. Its shoots die off during the cold period, but grow back very quickly in the spring. The plant is distinguished by large and dark green leaves that densely cover any structure.

Actinidia kolomikta stands out for its increased density of vegetation. Its shade may vary depending on age. IN warm period it's blooming small flowers white for about three weeks. In winter, the shoots die off, so actinidia must be pruned 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 crops from which you can make a hedge is in the TeleDom program.

Plays an important role. High fences can protect us from prying eyes, but we want something more original. A flowering hedge is an ideal design solution that does not require large expenditures. Moreover, you can create it yourself.

Options for the base of a hedge

A well-maintained living fence can highlight the beauty of your site, smooth out some defects, and protect from wind, dust and prying eyes. But, despite all its advantages, the flowering hedge managed to push the living green fence away from the leading position and confidently take its place.

A flowering hedge can attract with its beauty not only people, but also fluttering butterflies and moths, singing birds and colorful insects, and its amazing aroma can turn the head of any passerby.

As a basis for a flowering hedge, you can use a chain-link mesh, wooden or metal carcass. In order for a plant to develop well, it needs strong and reliable support. Also, as a basis for a flowering hedge, you can use evergreen or ornamental shrubs, which will act as spectacular tapeworms and serve as a backdrop for colorful flower arrangements. This is a kind of core of the future composition, which will ultimately determine the height of your hedge.

I would like to draw your attention to jasmine, beloved by many gardeners. Its blooms are simply irresistible. Particularly spectacular are shrubs with an architectural crown shape (“Virginal”, “Pyramidal”).

A flowering hedge looks beautiful and harmonious, the flowers of which are successfully combined in color with each other or are able to create an impressive contrast. So, what flowers will best decorate your fence? More in demand today are the types of plants that do not require special care, but need support:

1. Hydrangea paniculata.
2. Kampsis.
3. Clematis.
4. Climbing rose.
5. Honeysuckle.
6. Wisteria.
7. Decorative beans.
8. Morning glory.
9. Kobeya.

Shrubs, which themselves can serve as a support for flowering hedge vines, look no less impressive:

1. Deytsia.
2. Pyracantha.
3. Japanese spirea.
4. Rose hip.

Design solutions for flowering hedges

The main rule that must be followed when selecting plants is its characteristics. Try to select plants with different flowering periods!

For example, the unique ability of vine plants to quickly increase their plant mass makes it possible to create a picturesque landscape from the first year of your hedge’s life. As a design decoration for a traditional hedge, it is advisable to use several flowering plants that will transform it appearance. Both annual and perennial plants can serve as a floral accent for your fence, which will replace each other according to flowering dates:

1. Mallow.
2. Tall bell.
3. Silver wormwood.
4. Delphinium.
5. Dwarf caragana.
6. Barberry.
7. Chubushnik.
8. Multi-colored tulips.
9. Narcissus.

When creating a flowering fence, you need to adhere to a simple planting scheme. Planting is carried out in two rows in a checkerboard pattern at a distance of no more than 50 cm. Special attention pay attention to the color scheme of flowers, and dilute their diversity with green perennials, for example, ferns. Before you start planting, take the time to transfer your planting plan to paper and carefully study the options for your future flowering structure.

For beginners, we suggest considering the most simple diagram landings:

1. Varietal lilac. 2. Black elderberry. 3. Silver goof. 4. Red meadowsweet. 5. Valerian officinalis. 6. Forest tobacco. 7. Basil foliage. 8. Fragrant tobacco. 9. Turkish cloves

In this composition, elderberry and lilac bushes, starting from May, will be covered with white caps of flowers. The delicate honey aroma of silver sucker can captivate you from the end of May until late autumn. Throughout the summer months, meadowsweet, valerian, and fragrant tobacco etc.

Of course, this is an approximate scheme for planting plants, but based on it, you will have your imagination, and it will be easier for you to choose the types of plants that are most suitable for you.

Secrets for caring for flowering plants

But before you start planting, treat the soil thoroughly. Remove all weeds and apply mineral fertilizers. Remember to water your fence regularly, especially in the first two years of its life. The main thing is to prune in a timely manner and tie the side shoots of the bushes to the base.

In order for your flowering plants to delight you with abundant blooms, do not forget to water them in a timely manner. Most of them are sun-loving, but shade-tolerant. Best time for watering - early morning or late evening. If your fence is with south side plot, it is recommended to water twice a day. Abundant but infrequent watering is preferable for flowering plants.

It is advisable to cover your flowerbeds with bark mulch or pebbles, depending on your design preference.

A beautiful and well-groomed flowering hedge is quite painstaking work. It is clear that no one will be able to build it in one day. It will take several years for it to shine in all its beauty, but believe me, your efforts will be justified by the final result. Good luck to you!

Tired of using “dead”, static material in garden structures, fencing and landscaping?

Then decorate the outbuildings, divide the garden into separate sections, or organize a cozy relaxation area in your dacha using an evergreen hedge.

A green hedge can be free-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. It all depends on the tasks assigned.

Evergreen hedge

Before you start designing your own hedge design, let’s consider which plants are most suitable for forming this type of garden fence?

So, if you need to disguise unsightly corners of the garden (for example, a shed or fence), decorate a terrace, gazebo, or cover the trunks of old trees, use these popular climbing plants How:

1. Tree-like or herbaceous perennial vines:

Honeysuckle honeysuckle - a climbing fragrant vine

Campsis - woody deciduous vine Common hop (climbing) Actinidia kolomikta – woody vine (creeper) Schisandra chinensis - deciduous vine

For normal development and growth, fast-growing climbing plants definitely need solid support. It can be a wooden or metal frame, or a chain-link mesh. With quality support, climbing hedges will grow much faster.

Attention! A fast-growing hedge requires timely pruning and shaping. If green fence not maintained in proper condition, it will look shapeless and neglected.

On the following photos hedges, we will show you how you can create amazing interiors from green walls (using the example of grapes, a fragrant pot and a climbing rose).

2. Annual vines 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, annuals can quickly solve some of the decorative problems of long-growing perennial vines - they quickly fill empty spaces, create vertical spots of color and abundantly flowering screens.

It is necessary to plant flowering annual plants in the soil from seedlings and only after the threat of frost has disappeared.

Popular shrubs for hedges

If you need to protect the territory of a suburban area or cottage from uninvited guests, most often tall deciduous and coniferous shrubs are used when laying a green fence.

Coniferous hedges

Making a hedge from coniferous plants will not be expensive or difficult. 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 their unchanging appearance. Both in winter and in summer, fir, juniper and spruce enliven the garden with greenery, but do not bloom.

To add color to a living fence, evergreen conifers can be used as a background. Both traditional garden flowers and alpine plants look great next to them.

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 made of thuja, with proper care, will never fall off or wither. Thuja is one of the easiest to care for and unpretentious evergreens. It easily tolerates molding and replanting.

In order to create a dense, impenetrable living wall of plants, planting must be done in one row every 40-80 cm, depending on the garden form 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, oriental, Siberian, purple and gray spruce. The dense crown and good branching of these conifers completely obscures the view of the site and clearly defines the boundaries of the garden areas.

Young coniferous trees are planted in warm autumn, in fairly loose and moist soil, in trenches up to 50 cm deep. When planting single-row coniferous fence, maintain a distance of 1 m between seedlings. In the case of two-row planting (as in the hedge diagram just below), the interval between the trees should be at least 80 cm.

Juniper hedge

Impenetrable thickets can be created using Cossack juniper with green or bluish needles. A quickly growing hedge will be formed by Virginia juniper. But an ordinary one, with slow growth, will grow in the garden for a very, very long time (almost 200 years). But if you don’t intend to live that long, then a scaly or Chinese juniper. They branch well and easily withstand severe frosts.

To minimize random free openings, juniper seedlings are planted in a checkerboard pattern with big lump land. Over time, when the trees grow a little, it is necessary to cut off all the tops evenly. This will make the juniper look as neat as possible.

Hedges made of deciduous plants

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. With them there is a better chance of achieving density. When the trees grow into a wall after about two years, you can begin to shape them.

Willow hedge

Such a hedge can be grown in both wet and dry areas. Using two-year-old woody cuttings for planting (these will be accepted better). 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.

In just a couple of years, the willow hedge at the dacha (if it is not subjected to regular shaping) will turn into a dense wall of an acceptable height.

Willow is the only plant for hedges with which you can achieve such an impressive effect in such a short period of time (compared to conifers).

Hawthorn hedge

In addition to bright decorative foliage, hawthorns bloom very beautifully. And they are good in winter too. Until spring, their branches are decorated with red fruits that look like miniature apples.

Planting a hedge of common hawthorn always begins with the preparation of holes located at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Hawthorn seedlings must be selected that are already quite large - from 3 to 5 years. On next year they must be trimmed, leaving a stump 10 cm high above the ground.

Rosehip hedge

Some types of rose hips can reach three meters in height in a few years. Considering this fact and the fact that rose hips, like roses, grow strongly, they can be planted in one row. And only when a wide hedge is needed in the garden for landscaping, seedlings are placed in a checkerboard pattern, sometimes in two, less often in three rows.

Flowering thickets of rose hips are not as unpretentious as, for example, hedges made of hornbeam or willow. This ornamental shrub often suffers from 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 require hand pruning of both branch tips 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 does not bud (is in a dormant state).

Hedges of medium-sized plants

Decorative hedges can be tall, medium-sized or short-sized (up to half a meter) in shape. And it can be molded (cut) 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 linear meter 2-3 seedlings are enough, for short ones – 3-4.

Protect the garden and plants in it from strong wind and dust can be achieved using the following medium-sized and low-growing shrubs:

Red and black elderberry hedge

Due to extremely rapid growth shoots, elderberry must be severely (shortly) pruned (even cut branches of the bush produce abundant growth).

This plant has the highest decorative value during 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

Tree hydrangeas bloom for a long time 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 encountered such a concept as a hedge), buying hydrangea grown in a nursery is a real success. Seedlings that were purchased 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 viburnum, which delights the eye throughout the spring with a pink foam of flowers, and in the fall with corals and a red scattering of fruits, has long been registered in many domestic gardens.

Viburnum hedge bushes grown in the garden will have the shape that a person gives to it by pruning. Viburnum looks advantageous (goes well) against the background of plants such as spruce, birch, linden and maple.

Spiraea hedge

It becomes clear that fast-growing plants for hedges are everyone’s favorite deciduous ones, and not the less adored conifers. Spiraea (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 height, forming a long-lasting spirea fence with abundant flowering.

Lilac hedge

It seems incredible, but such a decorative hedge on a summer cottage is almost irresistible. Simple varieties of lilac densely fill the lower tier with flexible branches, which makes the living wall impenetrable for either humans or 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).

Border hedges

When zoning a garden in landscape design, it is recommended to use a low and very dense hedge of regular geometric shape - bosquets.

Thus, for the design of walls with clear contours, they are most suitable tree species, which tolerate haircuts well.

If a border hedge 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 unpretentious.

A molded hedge (for which it is better to choose shade-tolerant plants with relatively slow growth) can be thorny or non-thorny, deciduous or coniferous.

Yew hedge

In the harsh climate of Russia, yew trees are rarely used to create high impenetrable fences, most often they are used to form low borders - yew branches, slowly growing and branching well, create a very dense texture. It is recommended to plant these shrubs in protected places - this way the breed will better retain its appearance after a harsh winter and produce abundant fruit.

It is necessary to trim such a hedge when the crowns of neighboring trees close together. But since yew grows very slowly, you will have to wait a couple of years with molding.

Boxwood hedge

Boxwood is a compact plant with beautiful dense leaves - a traditional element of classic landscape design. In order to make a straight line of hedge from boxwood you need:

use a tape measure to mark the length of the fence;

fix a distance of 35 cm between the bushes;

drive pegs at the ends of the furrow and stretch a rope between them;

check how parallel the hedge will be to the fence.

Entire labyrinths can be created using boxwood thickets alone. It is recommended to start trimming the boxwood shrub the next year after planting. And this should be done exclusively in the evening (bright rays of the sun can burn the tips of the trimmed leaves).

Cotoneaster hedge

Although cotoneaster grows slowly, it forms an impenetrable, dense crown, covered with pinkish-white inflorescences from the very spring, and late autumn burgundy leaf.

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 deciduous shrubs branch quite strongly, so they need to be planted at a distance of at least one meter from each other.

A hedge of common barberry

Rich purple colors in autumn, incredible fragrance in spring and abundant fruiting in summer - this is all a hedge, the price of which depends on the growing method and the right plants. Thus, a barberry fence will cost you much more (from 2,000 rubles per 1 linear meter) if you order its design from a company providing landscape services. Whereas a fast-growing hedge, made with your own hands at the dacha, will cost you five times less.

Privet hedge

Privet, especially loved by all gardeners, is most often used to grow formed hedges. They are cut at least 3 times a year using manual and mechanical garden tools such as large scissors, pruners, hacksaws, hand saws, chainsaws, trimmers.

(The height of the privet hedge will be uniform if the haircut is carried out along a cord stretched through pegs installed on the tops of the outer plants).

Mahonia holly hedge

The leathery, shiny leaves of Mahonia, with tiny sharp needles, are the usual green color in summer. But in winter the bush turns brown-purple, sometimes even purple. But there is one “but”: young plants do not tolerate the first wintering very well. Don’t 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 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 finery, forsythia is still decorated with dark green leaves.

Due to their exceptional decorative properties, forsythia shrubs look good in complex compositions with other plants and in group plantings.

Japanese quince hedge (Chaenomeles)

Highly decorative shrub with bright colors grown in the border and actively used in landscape design. With such a fence you can decorate any outbuilding, even giving it some glamor and mystery.

Selection of plants and shrubs for hedges

Regardless of the purpose and types of hedges, you should choose plants wisely 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 you need to select shade-tolerant woody shrubs, and for well-lit areas those that bloom profusely and grow well;

• if you don’t have time to constantly shape and trim (or don’t want to), then grow an unshaped hedge of lilac, honeysuckle, mock orange, apple tree, viburnum or serviceberry;

• a coniferous hedge will protect, decorate the garden and saturate the air with phytoncides that are beneficial for health;

• deciduous and conifers it is allowed to alternate - only if you are not embarrassed by the fact that the fence will be slightly transparent in winter due to fallen leaves;

• the optimal time for planting an evergreen hedge is mid-spring;

• trellis hedge that serves reliable support for curly ones perennial plants– 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 bear edible fruits if you plant such useful shrubs as gooseberries, cotoneaster, sea buckthorn, barberry, currants, chaenomeles, shepherdia, rose hips, hawthorn, viburnum, etc.

Often multi-stage hedges are created from low-growing shrubs. And if you are a true fan of designer delights, then a hedge) will certainly suit your taste. Just keep in mind that single-species hedges are not bad for gardens small size, and mixed breeds - for large ones.

Hedge - photo for inspiration and ideas

Well, and finally, a photo of a hedge for the pros!