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.
Winniefred17 Apr 2019 21:10Sure, it will outlive me. But I just love the idea that the tree could still be standing there, ideally 200 years later (or even longer). So the expected lifespan should definitely be around 150 years or much more.
The question of water requirements is important to me—another drought is approaching here. It hasn’t rained much at all for weeks.
But enough about me! This isn’t my thread after all^^.
The question of water requirements is important to me—another drought is approaching here. It hasn’t rained much at all for weeks.
But enough about me! This isn’t my thread after all^^.
kaho674 schrieb:
because I had drained my aquariums there. It grew quite well.Simple fact: algae actually make things beautiful
The hedge looks great @Müllerin
We are also currently in the middle of the planting phase. On Tuesday, the nursery planted a Japanese maple that is nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall. Since then, I’ve been completely amazed and keep sitting by the window, admiring it. And the first serviceberry has been planted in the front yard.
Besides that, we have a large flower bed with perennials and grasses for the bees. I’m really curious to see when it will start to bloom...
Now I slowly need to start looking into the selection of hedge plants!
We are also currently in the middle of the planting phase. On Tuesday, the nursery planted a Japanese maple that is nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall. Since then, I’ve been completely amazed and keep sitting by the window, admiring it. And the first serviceberry has been planted in the front yard.
Besides that, we have a large flower bed with perennials and grasses for the bees. I’m really curious to see when it will start to bloom...
Now I slowly need to start looking into the selection of hedge plants!
Here, again, no rain. Nothing will be planted before autumn anymore. The vetch and sunflowers that I am currently growing on the windowsill will still be planted outside, and that’s it. Okay, landscaping still needs to continue. I don’t have any more garden beds left.
The hedge is watered – it will be planted in autumn and spring.
The hedge is watered – it will be planted in autumn and spring.
I don’t water the lawn. My mother didn’t water it last year.
This year, I aerated, scarified, fertilized, and overseeded. It’s coming back well.
I plan to overseed again this evening. The duck family hasn’t been around for almost a week. They were busy pecking and clearing the grass of all sorts of small pests.
This year, I aerated, scarified, fertilized, and overseeded. It’s coming back well.
I plan to overseed again this evening. The duck family hasn’t been around for almost a week. They were busy pecking and clearing the grass of all sorts of small pests.
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