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.
@Müllerin I completely overlooked that, thanks.
Did you install it yourselves? How was it in terms of difficulty and cost?
We have no experience with gardening yet, but the concept will definitely be similar to yours. Many native plants, everything that's good for insects and other wildlife, and simply natural and close to nature.
Did you install it yourselves? How was it in terms of difficulty and cost?
We have no experience with gardening yet, but the concept will definitely be similar to yours. Many native plants, everything that's good for insects and other wildlife, and simply natural and close to nature.
Hmm no, we didn’t do it ourselves – in terms of difficulty, it would have been doable. You just stack stones so that gaps form, lay everything in a gravel bed, and make the structure slightly narrower towards the top.
Now here’s the catch:
This is greywacke – it came in large chunks that were shaped or simply broken down on site. Preferably with minimal waste, and that requires skill – if you need to practice first, it can get expensive.
Besides, I really didn’t want to carry all those stones in that quantity (and definitely couldn’t handle the big ones).
Yes, it wasn’t exactly cheap – for the two beds plus the path, with labor costs you’re looking at a solid mid-four-figure sum. But that doesn’t bother me; the money was included right from the start in the mortgage because we simply can’t or don’t want to do everything ourselves.
Now here’s the catch:
This is greywacke – it came in large chunks that were shaped or simply broken down on site. Preferably with minimal waste, and that requires skill – if you need to practice first, it can get expensive.
Besides, I really didn’t want to carry all those stones in that quantity (and definitely couldn’t handle the big ones).
Yes, it wasn’t exactly cheap – for the two beds plus the path, with labor costs you’re looking at a solid mid-four-figure sum. But that doesn’t bother me; the money was included right from the start in the mortgage because we simply can’t or don’t want to do everything ourselves.
Müllerin schrieb:
This is greywacke JEALOUS.
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hampshire22 Apr 2020 21:05Müllerin schrieb:
This is graywacke – it came in large chunks that were then shaped or simply broken down into smaller pieces on site. I love this stone. Maybe your stone even came from our Lindlar...
We live on graywacke – soil class 7. There are definitely differences in how stone experts handle the material. I will certainly dry-stone wall quite a bit myself, but the first ones we had made by the Lindlar Graywacke Manufactory Wegerhoff, and we have never regretted it for a second.
It also combines well with wood and "spa" – here’s my latest garden project: from the hot tub you can look out over the valley and no one can see back. Above it is sheltered by the ground floor terrace. The stone used here is graywacke.
The bikes still need a shelter, and the garden hose is too often in the way. So, time to lay some conduits...
Depending on the soil conditions on your site, building material may come up with the excavation.
From the excavation for our terrace, sandstone was selected for two walls.
It looks similar to the work by bon1990 or Müllerin.
In our case, it is hewn and built with masonry. However, not much additional work was needed since it had already been built before or is existing structure.
From the excavation for our terrace, sandstone was selected for two walls.
It looks similar to the work by bon1990 or Müllerin.
In our case, it is hewn and built with masonry. However, not much additional work was needed since it had already been built before or is existing structure.
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