Considerations Before Planting a Shrub Hedge
Before planting a shrub hedge, you should be aware that this type of privacy screen usually does not provide 100% privacy, especially between autumn and spring. Most of the bushes native to us inspire between spring and autumn with colorful foliage and a true abundance of flowers, but in winter the bare branches can only shield curious glances from outside the property line to a limited extent. It is roughly comparable to the curtain on the window: A bush hedge with dense growth offers a pleasant feeling of seclusion and security in the garden even in winter, but the plants are not opaque at this time of the year. You should also pay attention to the space requirements of most shrubs:Forsythia and weigelia simply cannot be raised to a hedge with the narrow dimensions of a cypress or beech hedge. You should therefore plan a sufficient planting distance to the property line so that you can later manage the pruning on the outside of the hedge without any problems.
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Ensure a blooming garden season with a clever selection of plants
As a rule, shrub hedges are not planted as a single variety, but as a colorful mixture of different plant species. The following shrub-like plants are particularly suitable for this purpose:
- Dogwood
- Weigela
- Forsythia
- lilac
- jasmine
- elder
- Ranunculus
Before planting, look at the flowering times of the individual plants and then adjust the arrangement of the plants in the hedge. In this way, you can ensure that in later years different parts of the hedge are always in full bloom in different colors at different times of the year and that their sometimes beguiling scent is emitted throughout the garden.
Do not take the wrong care when cutting back the privacy hedge from bushes
One advantage of flowering shrubs as a privacy screen is the relatively fast and vigorous growth of most shrubs used for this purpose. If young plants with several shoots and a size of 50 to 100 cm are used, then they can grow into a natural privacy screen of sufficient height within two or three years. Don't be afraid to prune the bushes in the first year. If these have already grown well, the plants compensate for a stimulating pruning in spring with new shoots and stronger branching.
Tips
Privacy protection hedges made from fast-growing shrubs look particularly natural and elegant if the individual plants are not planted in a straight line, but rather offset slightly to the left and right along a taut cord.
