A border of flowering and fruit trees offers a lot not only to the eye. Thanks to the mixture of evergreen, attractively flowering and fruit-bearing trees, the hedge is a good privacy screen and at the same time a valuable habitat for many animals.
How do I create a colorful hedge?
To create a colorful hedge, first plan the desired privacy screen with evergreen shrubs, combine flowering shrubs for a longer-lasting sea of flowers and add shrubs with attractive foliage. Plant in spring or autumn and take the correct planting distance into account.
Step one: Where should there be year-round privacy protection?
Not everywhere you want prying eyes to fall into the garden. Therefore, draw a planting plan in which you mark the places where evergreen plants provide privacy all year round.
Suitable shrubs are:
- Cotoneaster
- Japanese holly
- Creeping spindle
- oil willow
- Hawthorn
Step two: flowering shrubs
Here you should plan carefully so that the bushes produce flowers one after the other. This means you can enjoy a sea of flowers from spring through to summer. Flowering bushes also produce fruits that animals can feast on and which at the same time represent an attractive decoration.
Popular flowering hedge shrubs are:
- Farmer Jasmine
- Bloodcurrant
- Lilac
- Forsythia
- Kolkwitzie
- Snowball
- Weigela
- White panicle spars
Step three: Shrubs with particularly attractive foliage
Now your planning is well advanced and the future hedge is relatively dense. There are still a few bushes missing that impress with colorful autumn foliage or unusually shaped leaves. These are, for example:
- Golden Privet
- Bubble Spiere
- Blood Hazelnut
- Harlequin Willow
- Hedge barberry
- Magic Haze
Step four: The planting
Please note the planting distance recorded in the plan, for which size and branching are decisive. The guideline for colorful plantings that are not too dense is one to two bushes per meter. If you want a very natural hedge, even one bush at 150 centimeters is enough.
- It is planted in spring or autumn.
- Dig a trench that is twice as wide and deep as the root ball.
- Loosen the ground well. Improve heavily compacted soils with gravel or sand.
- Put the bushes in a water bath until no more air bubbles appear.
- Distribute plants in the dug pit according to the plan.
- Align bushes so they stand straight.
- Fill with topsoil, which has been mixed with a little sand depending on the soil structure.
- Water abundantly. This mudding closes the open cavities in the roots.
Tip
When planting a hedge, maintaining distances is essential. When border planting, be sure to check your municipality's local regulations. If necessary, include your neighbors in the planning of the hedge.
