Mixed hedge plants

At first glance, they remember country lanes, using alongside ditches, watercourses or to separate fields, but the mixed hedges, with their botanical variety and different blooms are also a great way to set up the edges of a garden medium - small, allowing you to get a little privacy and aesthetic movement in different seasons of the year.

You hasve to choose different plant species that can also sometimes be useful to mitigate any homogeneous space in the garden, while also providing a background for plants aesthetically pleasing classic.

Features mixed hedges

Plants of mixed hedges must have certain characteristics. First of all species must be very strong. This means that they must withstand low temperatures and winters too hard, or even with temperatures around - 15 ° C.

Furthermore, between the basic characteristics of these species of plants, there is also the aesthetic variety offering according to the different seasons of the year. Blooms alternate, colorful foliage, irregular development and movement.

Although winter has just arrived need to start thinking now the choice and placement of various plants for a mixed hedges. Already at the end of February and the first warm days of March, it is necessary to proceed to transplant any shrubs in pots purchased at nurseries and subsequent planting in the ground of the selected site.

When you are at nurseries, it's better to choose healthy plants, well-developed, avoiding those with roots already too developed. In this case, in fact, will be more complicated and there is the risk of severing a part of the roots, causing a damage to the plant.

Once you have chosen the right model, you must proceed with the excavation of holes spaced at least 40 to 50 cm deep and plentiful. Once you enter the map, however, avoid compacting the soil around too, a factor that greatly influences the rooting and irrigation.

Once planted, the plants must be free to grow, and if there are no limits and you want a natural look, you can make an annual pruning rather weak, even with simple shears, removing branches that are too long and without giving too forms precise. Depending on the type you choose, you can also try to alternate the pruning, favoring species with abundant blooms and disordered, leaving the bottom colorful foliage and more content.

In addition to creating real green walls, the mixed hedges are great for areas of the garden a bit off and bare. In this case the plants are selected and arranged in different planes. Those at highest development and less spectacular, are on the bottom, while in the foreground and maybe with proper pruning, flowering plants are abundant and aesthetically striking.

Species adapted to mixed hedges

To create mixed hedges and varied, there are many species that are perfectly suited for both maintenance features and appearance. One of the most popular, which is going to replace the traditional hedge plants as a single species, there is Photinia Red Robin, a plant from the splendor of autumn foliage with a very decorative with a beautiful deep red.

We have already discussed in detail, and in particular for the care and cultivation, I refer you here. Moreover, we can say that Photinia lends itself well even with an approach diverse as the background, as a fill. Easy to maintain, it also has a fairly rapid development that allows you to cover and conceal from view sparsely treated or nude. When planting, do better in groups of 3-4 plants, rather close, which can reach heights of around 3 to 3.5 meters.

Another species widely used for mixed hedges and varied is the Buddleia. This species is available in different varieties, which can reach considerable heights around 3-4 meters and is characterized by very heavy, prolonged blooms that are also coming autumn. Because of its floral beauty, the Buddleia is also called plant of butterflies that greatly appreciate the delicate nectar it produces.

In fact, the Buddleia is a shrub rather rustic, easy to grow, which can be grown in full sun or semi shade in areas provided with the right level of humidity. The flowering varies with varieties that are more than one hundred, with colors ranging from white to pink to purple.

The mixed hedges, also called informal, can also be made of other types of plants, such as the acidophilic, viburnum or privet, for example for use in Mediterranean climate zones.