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- Beautiful hedge with summer lilac - How to plant
- Location
- planting time
- planting distance
- possible combinations
- Tips
The summer lilac gives off a beautiful, flowering hedge
Beautiful hedge with summer lilac - How to plant
The wonderfully flowering summer lilac (Buddleja davidii) is best shown as a solitaire in the midst of a colorfully planted perennial flowerbed. But you can also enjoy the blooms, if you put the flowering shrub - perhaps together with other flowering shrubs - to a fragrant hedge. This also has the advantage that the rapid growth of the summer lilac can quickly create a privacy screen - Buddleja puts up to 150 centimeters in height per year.
Location
The ideal location for such a hedge is in the full sun - summer lilac likes sunny and warm. You can also put the shrubs in the light partial shade, but there the flower will not be so splendid. The soil is ideally permeable, rather sandy and lean. Heavy, moist soils - for example, those that contain a lot of loam or clay - can not tolerate the summer lilac.
planting time
If possible, plant the hedge in the spring so that the plants have enough time to grow until the autumn. The perfect time for this is about the end of March / early April, as a later planting the growth and flowering delayed. However, be aware of any late frost that may occur when protecting the young plants by covering them with fleece.
planting distance
Depending on the variety, summer lilacs grow up to 300 or even 400 centimeters high and need a lot of space. For a hedge, you can also set the shrubs closer to a distance of up to 80 centimeters - or offset in two rows at a distance of 90 to 100 centimeters. This variant has the advantage that the individual shrubs each have enough space and do not have to crowd, but at the same time you create a hedge-proof hedge.
possible combinations
Very nice is a combination of different blooming varieties of Buddleja davidii, which also has the advantage that they flower at the same time. You can also combine the summer lilac with other flowering shrubs, for example with
Tips
You do not have to assemble flowering shrubs yourself, because many gardeners provide you with ready-made hedge packages made up of species and varieties.