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- A garden fence made of plants - the best trees for your privacy
- Top 5 growth rockets - fast-growing shrubs
- The best classics for the living garden fence
- Tips
Natural garden borders look very nice, but also do some work
A garden fence made of plants - the best trees for your privacy
To preserve privacy in the garden, fences keep prying eyes away. Anyone who shies away from the costly construction of a wall and distrusts the durability of wooden fences will quickly plant a garden fence. Which shrubs and trees are perfect for an opaque enclosure, find out here.
Top 5 growth rockets - fast-growing shrubs
The following ornamental shrubs will not leave you waiting long for a majestic stature height. Planted at a distance of 80 to 100 cm, passersby will be denied a curious view of your garden. This is true at least for the period from spring to autumn, as the plants shed their leaves before winter.
The rapid growth of ornamental shrubs, however, requires a twice cutback each year, so they grow compact and dense. Thanks to their robust cut tolerance, they even tolerate a radical rejuvenation cut when needed, and then kick out again.
The best classics for the living garden fence
Anyone who places value on well-tried and easy-care hedge shrubs in the design of a living garden fence draws on the following, evergreen classics. In sunny to partially shaded locations, these ornamental shrubs thrive in every good garden soil:
Dropped out of the ranking of the best hedge shrubs is the boxwood (Buxus sempervirens). Two pathogenic pathogens take the evergreen ornamental shrubs so badly that it leads to dramatic total failures. Since Buchsbaumzünseler and the fungal infection Cylindrocladium rampant, the planting of boxwood is no longer recommended.
Tips
Best planting time for a fence made of shrubs is the fall. At this time of year, inexpensive, root-bare shrubs root in the sun-warmed ground in time for the first frost.