What to plant along the fence - shrubs, creepers or flowers

What to plant along the fence in the country? This question arises before many owners of personal plots. To answer it you need to think about your priorities.

After all, a fence can be used to enclose an entire site or separate some part of it, for example, a children's corner, a sports ground, a business area, a swimming pool, etc.

Photos of various options for hedges

In addition, the living fence has not only a decorative, but also a protective function. It protects the site from wind, snow drifts, hides the house from prying eyes, protects you from noise and dust.

Also, a hedge can be used for business purposes, that is, to get a crop from it, if fruit crops are used in gardening the fence. What is better to plant along the fence, you ask.

We can recommend such cultures as:

• raspberry;
• blackberry;
• currant;
• sea ​​buckthorn;
• viburnum, etc.

Planting raspberries as a fruit live fence

This is especially true for small suburban areas. If you have 8 raspberry bushes along the fence in your country house, you can extend these plantings along the entire length of the fence. Thus, you will create a beautiful, prickly hedge, which perfectly fulfills all the basic functions and gives a wonderful and useful harvest.

Carefully considering the various options for using a green fence, determining what you want to get from it, only an aesthetic and protective effect or even tasty fruits, answering these questions you can go directly to the choice of plants.

Types of hedges

Landing along the fence differ in the method of registration.

It may be:

• dense planting of loosely growing trees or shrubs;
• hedge of a certain shape, which is supported by regular haircuts;
• living fence, formed with the help of various structures, in this case perennial climbing plants are used for the fence.

Thuja Shorn Green Wall

For living walls and fences, it is better to choose plants that tolerate a haircut well, grow quickly, have a thick crown and a beautiful appearance. Depending on the needs, preference may be given to species with spiny shoots (blackberry, barberry, hawthorn), hard or rough leaves (ivy, hops, grapes, elm), deciduous and evergreen plants.

Depending on the height and width, living fences can be single-row, double-row, three-row. Their density depends on the size of the plants and the required height of the fence..

You can create a hedge with your own hands of different height - low, medium or high.

1. Low fence or curb usually make up from plants up to one meter. It may be low shrubs or flowers along the fence. From shrubs you can recommend:

• various types of sprayers;
• weigels;
• barberries with different leaf color;
• hydrangeas, which are suitable for shady areas;
• honeysuckle brilliant;
• from conifers - Cossack juniper.

Low honeysuckle fence

1. The average fence will be up to two and a half meters high. In this case, you must choose high shrubs or vines, a fence from which are formed on a metal or wooden frame.
2. High green walls, more than two and a half meters high, are formed from coniferous or deciduous trees. They can also vary in width, that is, they are single-row and multi-row, which are most often placed in a checkerboard pattern. To create such walls, you need a sufficient area along the fence. That is, for small areas this option is not acceptable.

The distance between plants in a hedge depends on their size and can be from twenty centimeters to one and a half meters, and between rows - from thirty centimeters to a meter.

Note! A living fence consisting of free-growing tall shrubs or small trees can take three to four meters from the width of the site, and a shaped one is about one meter. This moment must be taken into account when choosing plants and the shape of the fence.

Kampsis and maiden grapes fence

If you can allocate only a few tens of centimeters to a green fence, then it is better to stop on lianas. These can be campsis, climbing roses, wisteria, clematis, grapes - in the sun, or climbing hydrangea, honeysuckle capricoleum, ivy - in the shade.

In the following video you can admire various types of live fences.

Assortment of plants for different types of hedges

Decorated borders create from low bushes and dwarf shrubs, such as:

• самитит;
• rosemary;
• lavender;
• honeysuckle brilliant;
• juniper Cossack;
• шаровидные туи и др.

Most often borders are used in the design of gardens and parks, for fencing flower gardens, rose gardens, or for outlines of paths.

For the creation of medium-high hedges of a certain shape, such evergreens are suitable, for example, viburnum, laurel cherry, euonymus, privet.

Medium-high sheared privet fence

High green walls are perfectly obtained from plants such as:

• different types of junipers;
• western and eastern thuja;
• linden;
• grab;
• maple;
• acacia;
• elm;
• lilac;
• kizil et al.

For the wall above two meters, which are formed using a haircut, we can recommend pyramidal poplars, thujas, common spruce, maples, some types of elm. You can use and creepers, but you definitely need a strong support.

Mixborders for landscaping the fence

Mixborder for landscaping the fence in the shady part of the garden

Instructions for creating mixborders.

• Another interesting and very effective way to design - mixborders along the fence. This is such a mixed planting, consisting of various types of shrubs and flowers.

• Most often, several coniferous species are selected, for example, columnar thuja, pyramidal junipers, shrubs, with different flowering periods or the decorative form of the crown, and all this is complemented by flowering perennials.

• This fence is left free to grow and only maintains the neat shape of the bushes. Be sure to cut dry and withered shoots.

• The price of live fencing, consisting of many plant species, may be higher than mono-planting, but the effect produced by such a variety of colors and colors cannot be estimated in monetary terms.

Blooming mixborders on the border area

• Flowers along the fence can be the most diverse, most often medium or high. They are also selected with different timing of flowering. Thus, along the fence turns a delightful oasis, in which you can constantly admire the magnificent flowers and enjoy the different flavors.

Note! If you have a drainage ditch along the fence, you can perfectly decorate it with a mixborder or a fence consisting of one culture.

Conclusion

Regardless of which version of the living fence you choose, it will be a trimmed wall of thuja, a crimson or blackberry fence or a magnificent mixborder, your site will be transformed and will bring you even more joy!