An evergreen hedge will help to improve the plot of land around the estate, country house. It will perform decorative functions and at the same time protect from prying eyes, dust, wind. To make an unusual fence pleasing to the eye all year round, choose the right plants for it.
There are different ways in landscaping to create a beautiful hedge. For example, plants can be planted in 2-3 rows, form crowns or leave them wild, combine coniferous and deciduous trees. Landscape designers create dense and airy, high and low, curly and linear hedges.
Thuja, juniper, yew, decorative fir trees are suitable for creating an evergreen hedge.
To prevent the hedge from becoming lifeless during the winter months and off-season, it can be made evergreen. Ornamental conifers and shrubs delight the eye with luscious greenery in winter and summer. However, keep in mind that they grow slowly, do not bloom and require attention when planting. To create a beautiful hedge, designers use the following coniferous species.
- Decorative spruces and pines, more like shrubs, have a rounded crown, spherical or columnar shape. They are extremely beautiful. There are trees with bright green, white-blue, silvery, light blue, steel-colored lush needles.
- Tall thuja, the lush crown of which does not require formation. The plant is tall, reaching 7-10 m in height. In some species, the needles turn red in winter.
- Juniper for landscaping differs in color and trunk height. Low-growing varieties grow up to 1-1,5 m, tall ones – up to 3 m, although some species reach 10 m. There are many shades of needles. Bluish, with a gray tint, with yellow fingers on the tips of spruce paws, honey-blue – in any case, the juniper needles are very pleasant to the touch and soft.
- Golden yew has a pleasant, reddish color of needles.
Low-growing, creeping varieties of juniper, pines, thuja, yews are used to decorate plots. They are too small to make a hedge.
Planting an evergreen hedge
Coniferous hedge shrubs are quite capricious. In nature, they need symbiosis with other botanical species, so they take root in a new place with difficulty. Buy seedlings only from a nursery: real bushes and trees from the natural environment will not work.
Requirements for seedlings:
- earthen lump on the roots;
- green, succulent branches;
- age not less than 4 years.
For planting, dig a trench ½ m deep. Do not fertilize the soil. Plant the plants 30-50 cm apart.
For a hedge, unpretentious, frost-resistant conifers are needed. They are attractive regardless of the season, they have different shades of needles, which are beautifully combined with each other.