Hedges in gardens

Hedges are an essential part of most gardens. They can be clipped and formal, or they can be loosely informal with arching branches covered in summer flowers.
Hedges are used to provide privacy, act as a windbreak and to screen off one part of the garden from another.
Evergreens are ideal hedging plants, as they stay dense and green throughout the winter. The best are probably yew, holly or Cotoneaster lacteus, as they form a dense hedge which needs clipping only once a year. Fast-growing privet or shruby honeysuckle, Lonicera nitida, are also widely used, but they must be clipped two or even three times a year, to keep them tidy and to promote bushy growth.
Hedges made from conifers, which are also evergreen, are often dark green and rather funereal, but there are now lighter conifers, such as Leyland cypress (probably the fastest growing, as it forms 2-3 ft a year) and Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Green Hedger‘. Both can be clipped without fear of shoots dying back. To create a thick, interwoven shield of branches, plant the conifers at intervals of about 2 ft.
English lavender (Lavandula spica) makes a sweet-smelling evergreen hedge with a maximum height of about 2 ft. Escallonia macrantha, with its bright summer flowers, forms a large evergreen bush when grown singly. As a hedge it is a little floppy, but it is resistant to salt breezes and grows well in the warm climate of the South and West.
Deciduous shrubs and trees are also useful as hedges, particularly beech and hornbeam, which retain their autumn brown and yellow leaves throughout the winter and into early spring.
Where the hedge is not used as a bundary, informal flowering or berrying shrubs, such as Fuchsia magellanica or the pendent stems of Cotoneaster lacteus, can be left to develop their individual their characteristics a...

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