Hedges: A Versatile Addition to Your Suburban Garden

Suburban gardens can be a challenge to design and maintain due to their limited space and sometimes unusual shapes. Many homeowners turn to hedges to serve as more than just a boundary marker. Hedges have the potential to add height, color, and interest to a garden.

In this blog post, we'll discuss five ways you can incorporate hedges into your suburban garden to make it stand out.

1. Create Privacy

One of the most popular uses of hedges is to create privacy in an outdoor space. By planting a hedge on your property's edge, you can block out unwanted views from neighbors along with adding some greenery. Thuja Occidentalis, Leyland Cypress, and Fastigiata Yews are progressive options that can be trained into a hedge form.




2. Add Vertical Interest

If you want to add height to your garden, hedges can be the solution. Hedges can be used to separate and create different garden rooms, and to draw the eye upward. Boxwood hedge or Japanese holly can be what you need to bring interest to your garden.


3. Create a Focal Point

Hedges can also be used as a focal point in a garden that may lack one. You can shape your hedge into your favorite form and prune the foliage in the desired shape. Yews can be trimmed into spirals, rectangular shapes, or balls. Arborsculpture, the art of shaping trees for aesthetics, has been around for centuries and can be the inspiration for your shaped hedge.


4. Enclose a Herb Garden

You can also use hedges to enclose areas of your garden with a purpose. Place low hedges around a herb garden to keep the pests away. Rabbits and smaller animals won't try to get in or they'll have to figure out how to jump over the hedge.




5. Create a Living Fence

Lastly, you can use hedges to create a living fence or border between your garden and your driveway or patio. A Boxwood or Privet hedge creates a green wall and provides a soft barrier that you can then incorporate into your garden design.



Conclusion

To conclude, hedges have several uses in suburban gardens that go way beyond being a border marker. They can contribute towards creating a privacy screen, and provide height and depth to garden rooms. Hedges can be fun to shape and add interest as a focal point in a garden. In short, hedges are a versatile, functional, and elegant addition to a garden that can be designed to fulfill several landscape roles. Add some hedges to your suburban garden, and see how they transform your outdoor space. 




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