Free growing hedge not only allow you to save time for pruning bushes. Beauty bloom it will not yield a bed with perennials, but require much less maintenance. In addition, it will settle a lot of useful animals.
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If the individual bushes hedge every 5-6 years to expose the radical (almost to the base) pruning, you will save a lot of time at its annual haircut.
Without the intervention of the gardener
Planted in the garden strip beautiful flowering shrubs, let them grow naturally. Pruning a hedge is not required, but it needs a lot of space. The bandwidth which should be allocated for future blooming wall should be at least 2 m (preferably more). Only in this case, the fence will give you lush flowering and become a safe haven for many beneficial animals. The most natural look hedges, consisting of shrubs of different species. That is why it is best to combine plants with different flowering dates, colored leaves and fruit - in this case the decorative hedges will keep throughout the year. Very impressive, indeed, looks and hedges of shrubs of one kind - for example, only rose hips.
For 30 minutes, you can:
- Dig a trench for plants 1 m long.
- 4-5 plant bushes hedge.
The less pruning, the better flowering
Plants blooming in spring - forsythia, spirea Argut, Ribes sanguineum and Weigela and chubushnik - laying flowers in the fall to one- or biennial shoots. And because too much should not be cut: after severe pruning, they will not be able to please you with lush flowering. To these shrubs bloom profusely especially, need every two to three years to remove the oldest and most rapidly growing shoots. Slow-growing shrubs such as viburnum or Derain flowering look best if they are not cut at all.
Hedges, consisting of wild rose and other shrubs with a summer flowering, require only the removal of dead shoots. Faded flowers of wild roses, unlike spray roses, delete, do not need: the fall in their place zaaleyut large, very useful and ornamental fruit.
Autumn or spring planting?
Hedge is better to plant in early autumn. you can do this spring only when absolutely necessary. The roots of bushes planted in the autumn have time to spread out in breadth and go deep into the ground to the first frost, when the plant begins a long period of winter dormancy.
If the hedge planted in the spring, they go to the growth of primarily above-ground parts of plants and roots develop poorly. To not withered bushes, such landing need to be watered more often.
Planting shrubs should be at a distance of 1 m from each other, then we can achieve a good growth of the hedge. However, most of the plants intended for hedges, is very hardy and undemanding. They grow in almost any garden soil and almost do not suffer from pests. If the spring into the ground to add fresh compost, growth and flowering hedges will be more intense.
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