Hedging plants- beautify and protect your environment
Hedge is a wall covered with beautiful plants. Hedge plants are actually the plants which produce a barricade made with the branches of plant. Or you can say that hedge is a pattern of closely spaced shrubs or trees made to form a barrier or separate an area. Hedge plants are used to decorate the homes, gardens and to separate the places. This thing was started 4000 to 6000 thousands year ago in the Neolithic age.
Hedge plants are the natural source of beauty and protection; they are very much in business nowadays. In houses and offices the beautiful hedges of different plants shrubs and trees are used to beautify the gardens and galleries. These hedges naturally protect the gardens by the harsh rains. They help the home owners in securing their pets like rabbits, cats, chickens etc. They provide real beauty to your home and your office.
Hedge plants are great source of security; they secure you like the fences. In order to enhance your security you should use the plant hedges made up of small plants, shrubs or thorns. Hedge are also used to create windbreaks or privacy screens, the plants used for this purpose are usually allowed to grow naturally and are not trimmed and shaped in a certain size.
For trimming the hedging plants you should keep its top trimmed so that sun light can get through the branches at the bottom, so, that your hedge will remain ever green. According to British rules hedges are not cut between March and August as they work as nests for birds in these months and they are protected by law during these months.
Hedges plants are of various types like laurel hedges, privet hedges, hawthorn hedges. For example if we take an example of laurel hedge, the laurel hedges are the beautiful addition to any landscape. They give shelter for living to garden birds in winter. The can grow in any soil, some of them of also give flowers. The Mountain Laurel Hedge is a plant hedge which bloom in the late spring early summer. They look beautiful in their woodland setting. They also grow in the shaded areas. Their dense nature makes the natural sound barrier and beautifies the view.
Hawthorns Hedges are usually slim and don't have further branches but the little trimming is needed, the first two timely pruning will make your hawthorn hedge thick and dense with beautiful colors. These are also known as Quickthorn hedges. Dense and thick branches covered with thorns at the ends naturally secure and protect the area.
Privet Hedges are one of the most commonly used in variety of hedges. Butterfly, moth and larvae usually get feed from the privet hedges. The privet hedges are naturally tough and heard, they can't even break even some body throw it hardly. The nature of these hedges makes a tough and strong fence like structure. Privet hedges do not spoil the soil but their hungry roots take nutrients from the soil. They are quick growing and pollution resistant.
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