Evergreen shrub - a hedge trimmed by a piece of land

Where it is better to live in an apartment or own house? This question worries many. And making a choice in favor of a house with a private plot, you discover for yourself unlimited opportunities. You can engage in building, farming or landscape design. Starting to ennoble your site, you should give enough time to plant a hedge, using for this evergreen trees and shrubs.

They will not only beautify the landscape, but will help protect the site from extraneous views, street noise and a strong blowing wind that brings dust and small debris. This number of pluses makes the evergreen shrub an excellent contender for landing.

Wanting to get not only a green but also a flowering fence, you can combine decorative plantings, skilfully combining evergreen shrubs with other plants that will blossom beautifully throughout the warm season.

Great popularity was gained by coniferous plants. Planting pine, spruce, larch and sequoia into the line, you can dilute them with juniper and boxwood. The multistage hedge looks superb and its protection of the internal space only increases. Using simultaneously with such plantings bushes of honeysuckle, hawthorn, lilac or clinging roses you will only add decorativeness.

The evergreen shrub gives us the opportunity to admire its beauty at a time when all other plants have already discarded their foliage or have not yet released leaflets. Given the climatic conditions of our country, we can not afford a large selection of such plants and some of them are forced to shelter for the winter to protect them from severe frosts.

When choosing options for planting, pay attention to the Ledum. This plant belongs to the heather family, a genus of evergreen shrubs. It excellently grows in conditions of marshy terrain and low temperatures of the Far North, that is why it grows and blossoms in a warmer climate. The bush reaches a height of up to one meter and is suitable for a low hedge or first row multistage.

Ledum has medicinal properties and is widely used in folk medicine for air disinfection, as a diaphoretic and expectorant. It has the second name - rhododendron Daurian. But in the numerous plantings this evergreen shrub is not included, because having a stupefying aroma, it is poisonous.

Choosing for the hedge strongly smelling varieties, it is worth looking closely at the juniper Chinese. It can grow up to 20 meters in height, while creating an impenetrable wall of prickly branches. Starting from the second year, juniper will please you with bluish berries, widely used in cooking. The plant is not very demanding for the soil, but it is very capricious with respect to the humidity of the surrounding air. Several years after planting, it is required to cover the juniper for the winter, but the older the bush becomes, the lower the temperature is able to withstand.

Do not forget that the use of planting only evergreen trees and shrubs will create the impression of a "frozen" garden. Therefore, such planting must necessarily alternate with deciduous plants.

When constructing a hedge, you can learn from England's experience in creating whole heather gardens. In nature, there is a huge selection of plants from this family, which differ in the coloring of leaves and flowers, composition and height, which makes it possible to create attractive compositions from them. Heather goes well with rhododendrons, erika and kalmiyya. When planting a heath garden, you should take care of the good drainage of the site, as close to the surface of ground water can damage the plantations.