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.
Everything is already quite dry here as well. The newly planted plants need to be watered anyway. Fortunately, I had already planted most of the perennials in autumn.
The lawn and beech hedge will probably be fine. But if it gets really bad... before everything is damaged, you just have to water.
@haydee already now I also saw on the news last week that northern Germany is already facing such a severe risk of wildfires.
Something like that usually only happened in August. If at all...
The lawn and beech hedge will probably be fine. But if it gets really bad... before everything is damaged, you just have to water.
@haydee already now I also saw on the news last week that northern Germany is already facing such a severe risk of wildfires.
Something like that usually only happened in August. If at all...
Mother-in-law’s lawn has been watered for a week now, as the dryness is tough on it (exposed south-facing location, hardly any shade). Our raised beds with standard trees and strawberries, as well as the flower bed in front of the house, are watered occasionally. Cheers to the well.
The approximately 60-meter (200-foot) long earth berm along the property, with its varied vegetation, is a favorite spot for insects. Two weeks ago, the service tree was in bloom; there was a huge number of little creatures to be seen.
Now is the time when everything slowly—or sometimes more quickly—wakes up from winter dormancy. I love this season. I can hardly imagine during winter, when everything is bare, how wonderfully everything will sprout again!
The approximately 60-meter (200-foot) long earth berm along the property, with its varied vegetation, is a favorite spot for insects. Two weeks ago, the service tree was in bloom; there was a huge number of little creatures to be seen.
Now is the time when everything slowly—or sometimes more quickly—wakes up from winter dormancy. I love this season. I can hardly imagine during winter, when everything is bare, how wonderfully everything will sprout again!
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