Structures made of wood, iron or stone, enclosing areas do not always look aesthetically pleasing. Curly perennials for the fence, fast-growing and winter-hardy, will help to decorate the fence and make the site more attractive. Thickly covered with green foliage, any fence looks very decorative and becomes part of landscape design.
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How to choose climbing plants?
The easiest way to create a hedge of vines. Plants are selected depending on the growth rate and height of the fence. Sometimes they make combined planting, picking up crops with different appearance and color of foliage.
The hedge can be blooming or braided with green vines.
The type of climbing plant is selected depending on the height of the hedge, and pruning is used to form the appearance.
Green thickets of wild grapes braid two-meter walls for 1-2 years. Blooming clematis are also ideal for gardening hedges. Especially those that prune strongly - large-flowered, late-flowering.
For example, varieties:
- Blekitny Aniol;
- Prince Charles;
- Kardynal Wyszynski;
- Comtesse de Bouchard;
- Hagley Hybrid.
These plants are easy to care for. They bloom, depending on the variety, from mid-June to August, and sometimes bloom again in the fall. Clematis needs fertile soil, sufficient moisture and good lighting. Many species need pruning and shelter for the winter.
Fast-growing, winter-hardy perennials
- To get the green hedge in a few months, you can use the Highlander of Hubert or Fallopia the baldshuanika. If you plant this plant near a small hedge, you will have to prune it, controlling the rapid growth of the vine.The beauty of green foliage is complemented by a cascade of creamy white or pinkish flowers. The mountaineer of Aubert tolerates a drop in temperature to -20 ° C, grows well both in the sun and in partial shade.
- The fence looks beautiful, overgrown with five-leaf Maiden’s grapes. It is frost-resistant and unpretentious. It can be grown in cold climates. The length of the vine without trimming can reach 20 m, and it grows best in a well-lit place. It tolerates frosts up to -30 ° C.
- Fragrant grapes or Vitis riparia are suitable for sheltering large fences. It is unpretentious and frost-resistant, tolerates cold up to -30 ° C. It can grow on saline soil near roads that are cleared with salt in winter. Grapes rises to supports up to 10 m high, prefers sunny, well-lit places.
Blooming Fence Loaches
In a sunny, hot place near the fence, you can plant American Campsis or Campsis radicans.
Different varieties differ in color during flowering:
- Judi - with apricot blossoms;
- Ursynow - with orange flowers;
- Flamenco - with red flowers.
For low fences, clematis can be used, for example, the Sizaia Ptitza variety, blooming with large purple flowers. It will bloom all summer.
If the fence is above 2 meters, it is good to plant clematis of the Tangutik group. Popular varieties:
- Lambton Park - reaches 4–5 m, blooms all summer, and in the fall forms beautiful fluffy fertility, which in winter in combination with snow looks fabulous;
- Bill Mackenzie - grows up to 5-6 m, blooms in yellow flowers;
- Summer Snow - ideal for tall fences, it is strewn with white, small flowers in the summer, unpretentious in cultivation.
You can choose Cleecis Praecox with small purple flowers. Planted between other climbing plants or near the fence, it forms a dense hedge.
Evergreens
An interesting semi-evergreen clematis Clematis terniflora blooming in autumn. The Early Snow variety is especially good, which in mid-September is strewn with a large number of snow-white inflorescences similar to linden flowers. It grows to 4-5 meters and looks fantastically beautiful. Other perennial climbing plants are already losing the green color of the foliage, and its leaves remain green surrounded by lush clouds of white flowers. Flowering continues until the end of October.
The evergreen plants used for vertical gardening include common ivy Hedera helix. This is a shade-tolerant plant that loves coolness. Thanks to aerial roots, it can climb to a great height, forming a dense hedge wall. Ivy blooms in September with yellow-green flowers collected in a brush. Berries ripen in January and serve as bird food. Ivy leaves are used in folk medicine.
Decorative and deciduous perennial creepers for a fence
- A wonderful plant for fences is the vineyard Ampselopsis aconitifolia, which is somewhat reminiscent of five-leafed grapes. It is also unpretentious and grows strongly, climbing high on supports. This plant has beautiful, delicate leaves that turn yellow in autumn. Fruits, orange at the beginning of ripening, gradually turn blue. The vineyard is shade tolerant, in the first years of life it grows slowly, and then very quickly. Winter hardiness is average.
- Strongly growing and unpretentious plant. Woody pliers round-faced or Celastus orbiculatus. Any soil is suitable for him, the length of the shoots of the plant is 10-12 m. It must be constantly cut and guided, forming a hedge. It is especially important to do this at the beginning of development, so that the shoots branch. In order to have beautiful orange berries flaunting on a hedge of wood in autumn, it is necessary to plant the Diana female variety and the Hercules male variety together. If the fruits are not needed, it is better to choose the Hercules variety.
- Large supports can be used for strongly growing plants, these include Japanese grapes or Vitis coignetiae with large leaves with a diameter of 30-40 cm. In summer, the leaves are green, and in autumn bright red, burgundy, yellow and green interspersed - it looks very beautiful.The shoots of this grape grow up to 4 m long. He loves to grow in well-lit places.
Climbing shade plants
To decorate a shaded fence, a spindle tree or Euonymus fortunei is used. On latticed supports using aerial roots, these plants are able to rise several meters above the ground. A fence of 3-5 meters overgrows with an euonymus for several years.
Different varieties differ in leaf color:
- Coloratus - with dark green leaves;
- Silver Queen - leaves with a white border, frost-resistant, tolerates frosts well up to -25 ° C;
- Sunspot - yellow leaves with a green border.
On the north side, where there is little sun, curly hydrangeas or Schizophragma hydrangeoides can be planted for landscaping. These fast-growing shrubs, on the branches of which there are aerial roots, are suitable for low fences.
At a high support in the shade, kirkazon or Aristolochia macrophylla will grow well. It has large beautiful leaves and can be combined with clematis.
Hedgerow - site decoration: ideas
Young plants for hedges are planted at different distances. It all depends on the length of the fence, the number of seedlings purchased and how quickly you need to get the result. For example, Girl’s grapes can be planted in 1 or 2 meters. Seedlings should have a well-developed root system and strong shoots. After planting, the earth is crushed, watered and mulched with bark or sawdust.
Quality seedlings and proper care after planting is the key to success in growing hedges.
Green hedge protects the estate from dust and noise, emphasizes the beauty of the garden. It can be not only a fence overgrown with a climbing vine. For hedges, ordinary barberry, prickly thorns, honeysuckle and other plants are also suitable. Conifers or shrubs planted in dense rows and trimmed in the form of rectangles, hemispheres, various geometric shapes or animals look beautiful.
