Using Hedges in Your Front Yard Landscaping
29 Mar 2010
A well kept hedge can do much for your landscaping. Used in the front of the house and on the sides of your yard, hedges are a barrier against traffic, pollution, noise and all things unsightly; at the same time hedges enhance the overall proportions and general appearance of your house and lawn. Within the boundaries of your property, hedges define paths and walks, demarcate various areas, as well as help to screen service areas and vegetable gardens.
The plant materials generally used for hedges are mentioned in other posts. They include the tall background hedges of holly, thorn or wattle; the informal flowering hedges of rose, bridal wreath spirea or barberry; Such evergreens as mugho pine, globe arbor vitae, box or eunonymus (most of which are used as low edgings) and the colorful fruit and-nut hedges of thorn apple, hazlenut, cherry, beach plum, cranberry and quince.
And, of course, there are the formal clipped hedges. Of these, the Amur privet is by far the most widely used. In fact, the privet is used so universally that it is original to choose any of the above for hedging.
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