Hedges To Suit Every Garden!

Whether you want extra privacy and security, a haven for wildlife, fine fragrance or fabulous flowers, a hedge can provide the answer, as Louise Curley reveals.

- Louise Curley

IT can be hard to get excited about hedges. They quietly do their thing, defining the boundaries of our gardens and providing a useful backdrop to other planting.

But they can be so much more. It’s possible to make a feature of hedging by incorporating it into your garden’s design and capitalising on the extra planting opportunities a hedge offers. This could simply be using traditional hedging plants such as yew, box and privet in a less conventional way – cloud pruning them into loose, undulating curves, perhaps – or it could mean growing less commonly used plants to create a hedge.