It is easy to get a decorative hedge all year long by carefully choosing the shrubs that make up your hedge. Flowers from spring until autumn, fruits until winter, perfume during the summer season, variegated or colored foliage. the hedge beautifies your garden all year round if you wish, showing a different face each season thanks to Landscaping Rockingham.
Plant two rows of shrubs and trees to start. Then, once these first plants to install well, make climbing creepers to add a new attraction and fill the spaces: Clematis flammula (fragrant), common hops, honeysuckle, bramble, rose-liana (single or double).
Occulting by its foliage, dissuasive by its thorny brambles, decorative by its flowers and fruits, easy maintenance, and refuge of the fauna of the garden. the fruit hedge has everything to please as part of Landscaping Rockingham.
What to put there? Apple, pear, cherry, peach, nectarine trees driven in glass palm, simple U, or cord to drive on son. (refer to our sheet tips on fruit trained to learn more). Not to mention the fruit trees such as raspberries driven flat arch. And that’s not all: hazel, fig, quince, arbutus, almond tree.
The size is limited to the formation and fruiting fruit. The key to success is to give everyone their place in the sun, and they do not compete. Organize the space well on the threads that lead the fruit hedge as part of Landscaping Rockingham.
To interest the birds in particular (and divert them from your crops), plant a hedge where juicy and colorful berries abound: cotoneaster and berries orange-red, mountain ash, pyracantha, currant bush, berberis, holly, juniper, lauren-tin, mahonia, skimmia. The sparrows will find the cover but also the shelter, making their nests in the branches.
Indispensable in a kitchen garden and an orchard, pollinators should be attracted near fruit and vegetables. To do this, compose a mixed hedge at the edge of your garden greedy with sorb trees, lagerstroemias, buckthorns, viburnum, buckthorn, hazel, sloe. Finally, to make your hedge welcoming, give it a good width, border it of herbaceous plants and let it grow freely leaving its irregular contours thanks to Landscaping Rockingham.
To create a decor, a landscape, give an atmosphere to your garden, the decorative hedge is more than a structuring element of the garden. In small gardens in particular, it allows to enjoy the flowering of several shrubs on a small space.
The mixed hedge can be cut, left free or semi-free at your convenience. In the table below, find decorative, spring-flowering, summer or fall shrubs, as well as decorative foliage shrubs. And create the hedge that fits your desires.
