Great Bushes For Creating A Hedge
Great Bushes For Creating A Hedge
A very popular way to plant bushes in developed areas, is in hedge formations. Also known as a “living wall”, planting bushes in a row to form a hedge will provide privacy, block out street noises, block strong winds, and more.
Planting bushes as a hedge is fairly simple to do too. You can start with very small, young bushes that are only a couple of feet tall, but be prepared to care and nuture the new hedge bushes for many years when you do this. Alternatively you can plant bushes which are at least a couple of years old already, and three to four feet tall. This will allow them to establish the hedge at a much faster rate, and the bushes will have a better chance of becoming established and strong more quickly.
When you plant a new hedge, it’s important to know how far apart the bushes should be planted. Some bushes will spread out as far as 20 feet, while others will spread about five or six feet when they’re fully mature. And since a hedge is a living wall, you’ll want to have them close enough together to create a solid barrier once they’re fully grown, but you don’t want them so close that they’re crowding each other too much at full size either.
Generally hedge bushes are planted a distance that’s about equal to their full breadth when matured. In other words, if you plant bushes which have a maturity spread of six feet, then you’d plant those bushes six feet apart to create a hedge.
There are so many types of bushes which make wonderful hedges that it can be quite difficult to choose just one type. And you don’t technically have to either. You could choose to create your hedge using three different types of bushes if you’d like, or you could keep it more formal and uniform by planting just one kind.
Since a hedge is meant to be a living wall though, the bushes you choose will like be evergreens. This way you’ll continue to have your privacy, wind, or noise block throughout all seasons of the year.
If you like flowers, you may want to select hedge bushes which produce flowers each year too. A butterfly bush for example, or a lilac bush are excellent flowering hedge selections.
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