Content
- Is the column cypress suitable for a hedge?
- Many design options in the Mediterranean garden
- Hedge from column creepers not hardy
- Similar alternatives to the column cypress hedge
- Tips
Column presses offer an attractive privacy
Is the column cypress suitable for a hedge?
With its very slender but tall growth, the column or Mediterranean cypress belongs to the typical appearance of Tuscany in particular. Here the evergreen tree is especially common as a park or avenue tree. The woodland, also known as Tuscan cypress, is also often used for narrow hedges, but is not always hardy everywhere in our latitudes. If you live in a very cold region, you should make better use of more robust hedge plants.
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The fast-growing Mediterranean Cypress is an eye-catcher in any garden, finally, the columnar appearance is strong - this growth form is natural and does not need to be designed by special cutting measures. In its Mediterranean homeland, the tree is often planted in avenues and parks, especially since it is also considered to be very easy to care for and grows in almost every soil - for example, the plant is salt-resistant and therefore also found in normally problematic coastal soils. Columnypresses are one of the pioneer trees that colonize fallow land very quickly. The tree is suitable for both a solitary and a group planting, for example as a hedge. In this case, you should set the individual trees at regular intervals between 60 and 80 centimeters.
Hedge from column creepers not hardy
Such a hedge of column cypresses should be a beautiful sight - but the tree should be planted only in climatically mild regions (such as the German wine regions). Mediterranean cypresses are hardy only up to a few degrees below zero and quickly freeze to death in very cold winters. This is especially true for young specimens, which are already better off the first few years in a bucket - the older the column cypress, the harder it gets. Really hardy, the tree will not grow with age.
Similar alternatives to the column cypress hedge
So if you do not want to pack up your pillar hedge every winter and protect against the frost, or if you hope every year that the temperatures are not too low, then you should refrain from planting the column cypress. However, there is a whole series of externally similar woody plants, which are frost hardy in our regions and therefore more suitable for hedge planting. These include u. a. Thuja (Tree of Life), Blue Spurge (Chamaecyparis laws), Pillar Cherry (Prunus laurocerasus) or Leyland Cypress (Cupressocyparis leylandii).
Tips
When planting column trees as a hedge, you should cut the fast-growing trees every year, otherwise you can get up to 20 meters and higher if the conditions are right.