Catching up with their design of a garden site, consider creating it hedges. Hedge good for all sites, except gardens located in low areas and wetlands. And if your garden plot a lot of fruit trees, then located on the highest point of the garden hedge is a must, as to protect it from wind.

Hedge will protect you from dust, and heat will transfer easier. And, besides, no fence can match the beauty of living plants. And, if you do not want to arrange a hedge with zero, we can revitalize an existing fence.

Hedge of plants amenable to pruning (the formation of the crown), will provide not just a fence, and a real decoration of your garden. In addition, the hedges are very valuable from an environmental viewpoint, as green plants release oxygen, absorbs carbon dioxide, reduces air pollution, serves as a natural filter and absorb dust, holding it on the leaves, stops the wind, creates a favorable quiet green background around the site, that very conducive to relaxation and tranquility in the garden. And if you make a thorny hedge of plants that have thorns on their stems, such as hawthorn, wild rose, they serve as excellent protection, and turn your home into a fortress just as completely capable of replacing the fence of any material around the site.

Hedgerows are beautiful, practical, durable and used for branch site from the street, and to protect it from adjacent areas. In addition, the green hedges provides a perfect natural backdrop for flowers and ornamental plants.

Depending on the plants selected to create a hedge, they are divided on the constitution and natural. Formed by the hedge must be trimmed regularly and give it shape. Natural, freely growing hedges is usually made up of plants, beyond the haircut. This is often blooming plants, beautifully decorating the garden in bloom, or plants with decorative foliage. Selection of the form a hedge depends on the size of the site. Hedges, regardless of the type of need regular mowing or systematic pruning, which is an indispensable part of caring for plants.

Height hedges divided into:
- Low, up to 50 cm;
- Average, up to 1 m;
- High, up to 2 m. Low hedges are also called curbs and used for decorative purposes of registration of the site. Middle and high hedges are used to create fences of the site.

Hedges can be single row (the most common hedge can be planted from climbing plants), double-row and three-row (hedges planted in open areas where there are no forest zone, ie, protected by a gust of wind, especially on the north side).

Plants in two-and three-row hedges can be the same height or placed piggyback. Longline deployment of low-growing shrubs are planted in the front row on the back of high shrubs. With three-row structure of the hedgerow plants can be placed in three tiers (high, medium and low-growing) that will give a special decorative effect of fencing and, in addition, will create scenic variety and enhance the brilliance of the fence.

Hedges can be made entirely impenetrable, even for small animals, if the landing between two rows of shrubs to pull a low number of metal mesh, mounted on wooden stakes, or more rows of wire. When the shrubs will grow, they are completely hide the grid, their branches vrastut it and intertwine with the wire, making a series of invisible security.

Forming a hedge at planting shrubs, you need to strictly maintain the straight lines and the distance between the plants. A very great temptation to accelerate the formation of a dense hedge planting shrubs once more tightly, reducing the distance between them. But do not be, as it develops, the plant will soon begin to interfere with each other, to create competition in the consumption of nutrients and moisture, retard the growth of each other. Because of the density plantings occur shading will greatly denude branches of shrubs, which will inevitably affect the appearance and quality of the hedge.

Distance between plants at planting depends on the strength of their growth and the maximum height to which they achieve:
- For low-growing shrubs in the distance between the plants in a number of – 25-35 cm;
- For the middle of bushes – 50-60 cm;
- For tall shrubs – 80-90 cm

Also to reduce the period of growth hedge many aspire to plant large plant development. It also should not do, because large plants are worse than the root, and for them the higher the percentage of loss of individual plant hedges. Large plants are more expensive than seedlings 40-50 cm tall Therefore, we must have patience, care for the fence and wait for its development.

But if the growers can afford to buy a large plant in a container, then such plants can be planted from spring until late autumn. Shrubs in the hedgerow to be different ability to form dense trudnopronitsaemuyu wall, easy to carry a haircut, have a high speed of growth, opportunities to bring economic benefits in the form of fruits.

Planting dates depend on the plants from which you choose to create a hedge. Deciduous shrubs and saplings taken from the open ground with bare roots, planted in autumn or early spring. Two-row planting hedges produce a wide trench has two rows of staggered. Spacing between rows should be at least 40-50 cm

To mark the site under a hedge using a peg with the string attached to it, through which a straight line scheduled to desired length. Dig a trench along the line at bayonet spade depth or deeper, if necessary, and a width of 70 cm

Since the plants in the hedges, throughout his life remained at a constant location, required thorough preplant soil preparation, ensuring adequate nutrition of plants over a long period of time. To this end, the bottom of the trench must be carefully loosen the sharp blade, to make organic fertilizer: humus, compost, decomposed manure, mineral fertilizers: nitrofosku, superphosphate, potassium sulfate, dolomite flour. All this is mixed with earth and sealed with a pitchfork.

Selected from the trench the soil should also be mixed with a small amount of organic fertilizer and leave. Before planting the hedges broken, damaged and too long roots of seedlings should be smoothly cut shears to healthy wood and one day put into the solution heteroauxin.

Then place the seedling into the prepared trench, straighten all the roots that they are not curved and not exorbitant, and falls asleep fertilized soil mix. Seedlings are planted deeper than the level at which they grew up, landing made strictly on the target line, measuring the distance between plants of a given length rail. After planting, the soil of each plant is compacted and plentifully watered. Trimming hedges carried out immediately after planting, depending on the type of established plants.

Hedges consume large amounts of nutrients from the soil, so you need regular fertilizing plants under a hedge, given that flowering shrubs require additional feeding.

Help solve the problem of power and ground mulching decomposed manure, peat or soil in the area of floral hedges purchased in stores. Mulch layer is applied on damp soil after watering hedges first spring after planting.

If planting hedges made in the spring, during the growing season requires ample regular watering that promotes the best survival rate of plants. Make sure the roots are not stuck out from the ground and did not denude, otherwise they will quickly dry up, leading to a weakening of the plants.

An important event for the care of the hedge is her haircut. The first time it thoroughly mows the second year after planting. To enhance tillering and vigorous growth of shoots first haircut must be strong.

Hedges is formed by the apical and lateral shearing aligned throughout hedge its overall profile. Such hedges are cut twice or even three times a year: in spring and in midsummer, it is necessary to maintain the clarity of lines and shapes given hedge. Used for cutting large hedge trimmers and power tools.

For shrubs, not amenable to forming a haircut, as well as flowering shrubs are used only light annual pruning care and maintenance, during which growth is removed, the weak and thin shoots, cut dried or broken branches, trim the plants on the sides. Pruning flowering hedges is carried out immediately after flowering.

To reduce the time a high hedge can apply the method of pruning, excluding apical haircut. To this end, hedge trim only on the sides and tops provide an opportunity to grow. Thus, there is a rapid build-up height of the fence, and it takes the original form by a combination of clear-lined the sidelines and curly, naturally growing tops.