ᐅ Natural-style garden with hedge instead of fence (boundary hedge instead of fence)
Created on: 14 Apr 2019 17:52
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Müllerin
I still owe you some garden photos...
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, we’re getting an “eco garden.”
After the excavation spoil from both halves of the house, which was just lying around here, was finally removed in September, nothing happened for a while.
At the end of March, it looked like this
Then I planted the hedge (with the gardeners).
On the outside there is a lot of hawthorn, then 2 holly bushes (we’ll see if they don’t dry out too much in summer), 2 firethorns, a witch hazel, a butterfly bush, 2 copper mountain ashes, spireas, a viburnum, and a mock orange. Up front, separately, a maple.
Eventually, there will be a rose arch with a gate at the end of the path.
The lawn is growing rather slowly; it’s just too cold right now.
In the raised bed there are herbs and a few flowers, and in the mulched bed only blue/white/pink flowers will bloom. A privet hedge will be planted along the border this week. Luckily, I was able to convince our neighbors not to go for anything like thuja or cherry laurel or anything similarly horrible. (Actually, it was pretty simple: I would have refused to plant that stuff in our garden. That would have meant installing a fence, and they would have had to pay for the hedge themselves.)
If you don’t prune privet to a blocky shape, it flowers beautifully.
Here’s a lilac; over Easter, vegetables will go into the raised bed, and on the right side towards the neighbors there will be a large bed in orange/yellow/red.
Yes.
Eventually, there will be an apple tree, once we find a tasty variety that the child isn’t allergic to.
I’d also like to add some kind of water feature, but we’ll see how that works without a fence with so many children around. Probably not at all.
We’ll see how it all turns out, but a gardener needs patience.
And here we’ll have the only nature-friendly garden; all around us there are golf-course lawns, gabions, dull uniform beech hedges, and hardly any flower beds.
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, we’re getting an “eco garden.”
After the excavation spoil from both halves of the house, which was just lying around here, was finally removed in September, nothing happened for a while.
At the end of March, it looked like this
Then I planted the hedge (with the gardeners).
On the outside there is a lot of hawthorn, then 2 holly bushes (we’ll see if they don’t dry out too much in summer), 2 firethorns, a witch hazel, a butterfly bush, 2 copper mountain ashes, spireas, a viburnum, and a mock orange. Up front, separately, a maple.
Eventually, there will be a rose arch with a gate at the end of the path.
The lawn is growing rather slowly; it’s just too cold right now.
In the raised bed there are herbs and a few flowers, and in the mulched bed only blue/white/pink flowers will bloom. A privet hedge will be planted along the border this week. Luckily, I was able to convince our neighbors not to go for anything like thuja or cherry laurel or anything similarly horrible. (Actually, it was pretty simple: I would have refused to plant that stuff in our garden. That would have meant installing a fence, and they would have had to pay for the hedge themselves.)
If you don’t prune privet to a blocky shape, it flowers beautifully.
Here’s a lilac; over Easter, vegetables will go into the raised bed, and on the right side towards the neighbors there will be a large bed in orange/yellow/red.
Yes.
Eventually, there will be an apple tree, once we find a tasty variety that the child isn’t allergic to.
I’d also like to add some kind of water feature, but we’ll see how that works without a fence with so many children around. Probably not at all.
We’ll see how it all turns out, but a gardener needs patience.
And here we’ll have the only nature-friendly garden; all around us there are golf-course lawns, gabions, dull uniform beech hedges, and hardly any flower beds.
Maria16 schrieb:
Nice! And it’s already blooming
What is the spacing between the hedge plants? It looks a bit tight. We have about 1.2–1.5 m (4–5 feet) of space, let’s see how many years it takes until it fills in...Yes, it’s blooming <3 Although there are still hardly any bees, but it’s probably too cold for them right now.
The spacing is roughly a good step length, sometimes a bit more, sometimes less. I think that’s enough, since they were planted staggered on purpose. I’m already looking forward to not having to see the parked car and the house anymore...
I’m allergic to picking flowers, though. So of course the child is allowed to pick a dandelion now and then, but generally I want to teach her that it’s better when the garden is blooming, because it looks nice for much longer than flowers in a vase, especially wildflowers don’t last well there.
In general, I very rarely have a bouquet in a vase.
One more word about boring and monotonous:
I know there are birds living in them, they were even in our rental property’s thuja hedge.
I call them that mainly because they are usually trimmed 2–3 times a year and thus never bloom or are allowed to bloom.
Also, I find it ugly when the dried leaves remain on them until spring.
Otherwise, I’m happy about anyone choosing beech instead of thuja or cherry laurel.
I generally find it unfortunate that hardly anyone plants trees anymore, and that in new residential developments there is no longer any space allocated for them in public areas. The development in front of ours still had room for parking spaces and a tree every few meters, but in ours, it’s just roads to fully utilize every bit of space.
I am seriously hesitant about the tree. So far, the hedge is mostly colorful, next to the foliage-sensitive neighbor with evergreen mountain holly, Portuguese laurel, and privet. Perennials are also gradually being added.
But a tree would have to go “right in the middle,” and since this year we could finally start using the garden properly, I still can’t really imagine where it would look best for us—or which one. My dream is a European plum, but it tends to attract wasps quite a lot. :-(
But a tree would have to go “right in the middle,” and since this year we could finally start using the garden properly, I still can’t really imagine where it would look best for us—or which one. My dream is a European plum, but it tends to attract wasps quite a lot. :-(