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.
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.
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