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.
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Pinkiponk17 Aug 2020 18:47Müllerin schrieb:
... everyone around has golf course grass ...What is wrong with golf course grass? I don’t really know golf course grass, even though my dad played golf. What I want is a patch of lawn where I can lie down, stretch out completely, and watch the clouds in the sky without anything poking, pricking, or pressing against me. Would that be considered golf course grass?P
Pinkiponk17 Aug 2020 18:49Snowy36 schrieb:
I generally think it’s a shame that hardly anyone plants trees anymore, and in residential developments there’s no longer any space planned for them in public areas... The neighborhood in front of us still had room for parking spaces and a tree every few meters, but here it’s just streets, with every bit of space fully used. We will plant trees, even if we won’t live to see them grow large.
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Pinkiponk17 Aug 2020 18:55Müllerin schrieb:
Trees are wonderful; my fondest childhood memory is of the branches of some—well, I don’t actually know what kind—knocking against my window, but it was definitely a deciduous tree.
I would also love to have a really big, beautiful deciduous tree in the garden. However, I probably won’t live long enough to see an oak, chestnut, beech, alder, or linden tree reach their full size, and it would shade our solar panels on the roof anyway.
So, I’m making do with the maple, lilac, and eventually the apple tree, plus three serviceberries (one of which is planted in front of the house). I will probably plant a pear tree if I’m allowed to. Pear trees remind me of the poem by Herr von Ribbeck.
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Pinkiponk17 Aug 2020 19:15kaho674 schrieb:
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Common chickweed
...I really like common chickweed and have spent quite a bit of money buying its seeds. It’s a plant that (in our area) blooms almost all year round, with those small, white, star-shaped flowers, covering the ground with a nice, fresh green.(However, I come from the city and, according to my housemates who were born in the village, I have a different view of what they consider weeds and “nothing special.” Well, they should have taken over my bills for what they supposedly see as nothing special.)