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.
tomtom79 schrieb:
A single tree never bears fruit on its own; within 10–20m (33–66 feet), there should be another of the same kind.That applies to apple trees, yes!
And they also need to be compatible varieties.
But this thread isn’t just about apple trees.
Trees are wonderful; my favorite childhood memory is the branches of a tree tapping against my window... well, I have no idea what kind of tree it was, but it was a deciduous tree.
I would love to have a really beautiful, large deciduous tree in the garden. However, I probably won’t live to see the full size of an oak, chestnut, beech, alder, or linden, and it would cast shade on the solar panels on our roof. So I’m content with the maple, lilac, and eventually the apple tree, as well as the three serviceberries (one of which is in front of the house).
I would love to have a really beautiful, large deciduous tree in the garden. However, I probably won’t live to see the full size of an oak, chestnut, beech, alder, or linden, and it would cast shade on the solar panels on our roof. So I’m content with the maple, lilac, and eventually the apple tree, as well as the three serviceberries (one of which is in front of the house).
Winniefred15 Apr 2019 07:53Very nice approach! I like it a lot. We have 60m (200 feet) along the footpath next to our property. Twenty meters (65 feet) of that is a privet hedge maintained by the city (unfortunately, typically trimmed), followed by 15m (50 feet) of flowering hedge with large shrubs and a small beech tree. These are only lightly trimmed on the footpath side. Next, on the city’s side, there is a strip of lawn, and on our side, the privacy screen continues with about 10–15m (33–50 feet) of lilac and elderberry (up to 7m (23 feet) tall) and a still fairly young flowering hedge (forsythia, weigela, privet, smoke bush, butterfly bush, ranunculus, etc.) all the way to the front. It’s a dream for birds and insects, with something blooming from March to November.
In the front garden, I have a single privet that I was once given as a gift, and it actually blooms quite nicely with white flowers.
Share a picture at the end of summer to show how it has developed for you!
In the front garden, I have a single privet that I was once given as a gift, and it actually blooms quite nicely with white flowers.
Share a picture at the end of summer to show how it has developed for you!