Content
- Which plants are suitable as screens in the garden? - Tips and the best types
- Preliminary considerations set the direction - so plan correctly
- Evergreen classics - these shrubs will not let you down
- Fast-acting hedge shrubs - natural privacy in no time
- Green screen for the small garden - slender columns
- This is how to plant hedge shrubs - a short guide
- Tips
Yew trees are among the classics among the hedge plants
Which plants are suitable as screens in the garden? - Tips and the best types
In the ecologically oriented garden planting, natural privacy is very important. The aim is to preserve the privacy, without compelling nature with a bulwark of steel and concrete. With hedgerows you peacefully decorate your property and keep prying eyes away. This guidebook explains in a practical way how your green screen protector works.
Preliminary considerations set the direction - so plan correctly
A green screen protects you with less cost than a garden wall.Depending on the size of the plot and the selected plant species, however, an opaque enclosure does not pay for itself from the household budget. By clarifying important issues in advance and creating a detailed plan, you effectively prevent expensive failures and bitter disappointments:
The more specific you are informed about the quality of the garden floor, the more informed decisions you can make about the appropriate garden planting. We therefore recommend having a soil analysis prepared in advance. For this purpose, soil samples are taken at various points and sent to a special laboratory. You will then receive qualified plant selection information with hints on pH and proper fertilizer.
Evergreen classics - these shrubs will not let you down
Anyone who does not feel like experimenting with the design of the garden is well advised with tried and tested classics. The following shrubs maintain their foliage dress all year round, are easy to care for and durable:
If you are looking for a screen for the Japanese garden design, we would like to recommend the bamboo 'Jumbo' (Fargesia murielae) to your heart. In contrast to its invasive species, this bamboo species does not form foothills, thrives evergreen and hardy to majestic heights of 350 cm.
Fast-acting hedge shrubs - natural privacy in no time
If proud landlords put on their new garden, they usually lack patience for a leisurely garden planting. The following hedge shrubs are a natural screen with maximum speed:
Great in coming as a green screen protector with a defensive character is the red thorn, Red Column (Pyracantha coccinea). For some years, the decorative thorn bush has blossomed to the most popular garden planting for the enclosure on Neubaugrundstücken. White flowers in spring, evergreen leaves and fiery red berries characterize the wood, paired with a rapid growth of up to 60 cm per year.
Green screen for the small garden - slender columns
The creative garden design for the small garden makes special demands on the selection of plants. A natural screen is intended to ward off onlookers and still allow air to breathe. The following shrubs fulfill this premise with flying colors:
A small downside is of course associated with the slender beauties. They are all slightly toxic. Therefore please always wear gloves during planting and maintenance work.
This is how to plant hedge shrubs - a short guide
All efforts to select the potted garden planting waste, if the valuable shrubs are not properly planted. For your guidance we therefore summarize below the most important cornerstones for a professional planting of hedgerows for the green screen:
The extensive water supply plays a key role in the care program. So that the young woody plants quickly beat roots, they are still placed in the growing pot in water until no more air bubbles rise. Following the planting, please pour regularly and generously in the first few weeks without causing waterlogging.
Tips
A natural screen as a mixed hedge is taken in the natural garden of beneficial organisms with enthusiasm. Rows of fruit-bearing flowering shrubs to evergreen and thorny woody plants, serves the varied hedge birds, insects and other small animals as a valuable source of food and year-round hideaway.