How to Choose Plants for a Hedge: Top Tips
If you are “fired up” by the idea of creating a hedge on your property, do not rush to go to the seedling store.
To begin with, it wouldn’t hurt you to decide what kind of hedge you want, advises the expert of the online publication “BelNovosti”, scientist-agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
A "green fence" can be trimmed (shaped) or free-growing, low or high, etc.
So, if you need a trimmed hedge, you should choose plants that have the ability to hold their given shape well.
An important quality is that it quickly grows foliage after pruning and grows in dense planting conditions.
Basically, these requirements are met by shrubs with abundant greenery, which are able to maintain the decorative appearance of their foliage throughout the season, until autumn.
If you are leaning towards this option, do not forget about the disadvantages it has: you will have to regularly maintain the hedge, for which you will need special tools.
If we are talking about a free-growing hedge, your choice is flowering plants, which have a beautiful shape given to them by nature itself.
The disadvantage of this solution is that it requires more space than the previous option.
