2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
A feeling of envy and delight arises at the sight of a well-groomed "green" wall, arch, curb. The idea of creating a decorating fence often comes up with many gardeners. At the same time, doubts arise in their knowledge and powers. We will help you make your dream come true. The article contains answers to exciting questions: "How to choose a place?", "What to plant?", "How to get the desired height?"
Why create a hedge?
Each owner pursues his own goals and knows exactly where he needs a living wall. As a rule, this is a fencing of the territory, snow retention, masking unsightly places, zoning a site, creating a background in resting places.
A spectrum of deciduous shrubs and trees is used to solve such problems. For compacted landings, certain types are selected. Larch trees cut well, in the presence of thorns and thorns, they can create obstruction, they are also able to protect from prying eyes and the invasion of animals.
Ephedra always look beautiful, have a high density, volume. But exquisite attractiveness is more vulnerable, it requires certain conditions for cultivation and material investments. Most often, they choose the Virginian juniper, Siberian spruce, and western thuja.
What do you need to know when choosing a height?
The size of the green fence depends on the scale of the site, its purpose and location. By functionality, hedges are divided into several types. The main difference is height, this is what affects the choice of varietal material.
Wall over three meter
Tall plant walls are used instead of fences. They are usually created by a single-tier planting of trees with a characteristic structure: with low-lying branches that begin to grow at the base of the trunk. For these purposes, lindens, Ussuri pears, poplars, Norway maple, ash, elm, basket willow, ornamental apple trees, mountain ash, and tall varieties of irgi are used.
But if there is a large plot of land, and there is a desire to get a voluminous hedge, 2-3 tiers are used. The first is standard trees, the subsequent lines (second and third) are of shrubs and semi-shrubs. Correctly selected plants will always look aesthetically pleasing. It is important that they differ in terms of flowering / fruiting, combined in the color of the foliage.
Height 2-3 meters
Specialists for such a fence offer: Amur barberry, white and bright red dogwood, buckthorn buckthorn, tree caragana, two varieties of sucker (silversmith and narrow-leaved), smooth or spiky game. The following types are popular for such plantings: blackthorn, felt cherry, Hungarian lilac, mountain ash-leaved fieldberry, common hazel. Often planted viburnum gordovina, chubushnik, Tatar maple and Ginnala, chokeberry (chokeberry), Maak honeysuckle.
Average height up to 2 meters
Such dimensions are relevant for fencing off neighbors, dividing your site into functional zones. Suitable material for such parameters are cotoneaster, broom, shrub caragana, Thunberg barberry, rose hips, alpine and golden currants, snowberry. Roses are actively used: gray, wrinkled, dog, as well as various spireas: Vangutta, Gray, Willow, Sharp-toothed; alpine honeysuckle, veil.
Low landings from 1 to 1, 2 meters
Small fences are used to highlight recreation areas with a pool, sun loungers, barbecue facilities, patios, for zoning areas with a vegetable garden and a garden. Used to create a decorative background for rocky gardens, rose garden, rock garden, artificial reservoirs, flower beds. Low hedges are relevant for dividing the territory into separate parts for the purpose.
Recommended options: bladderwort, cinquefoil shrub, steppe almonds, low-growing varieties of green barberry. Popular dried apricots yellow-orange, shrubby cherry, Besseya tender-ferruginous. Almost all varieties of spirea are ideal, for example: nippon, birch, Japanese, three-bladed. And also varieties of chubushnik: "Aureya", "Snezhnaya", "Pomponny", "Chamomile".
Minimum height - curbs 50-70 cm
Border plantings are distinguished by a high planting density. They are used in all open areas, they are planted along paths, near a gazebo, a reservoir, a fountain, they are a decorative edge of flower beds.
In nurseries you will be offered varieties of Japanese spirea, for example: "Golden Princess", "Little Princess", as well as Thunberg barberry: "Aurea", "Green Carpet", "Atropurpurea Nana". For borders, lingonberries, undersized chubushnik are used: "Dwarf", "Gnome", holly Mahonia.
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