Create a flowering hedge - How it's done

A garden hedge does not always have to be evergreen. You can also create a flowering hedge. You can find out which plants are suitable here.

In the specialist garden market, numerous flowering shrubs are also on offer today, with which colorful hedges can be designed and which will delight their owner with a great blossom magic from spring onwards. Many flowering shrubs also have dense foliage after flowering, so that they easily protect against prying eyes. In some cases, fruits also form on the individual trees (e.g. firethorn), which gives them a fresh accent in late summer through to the beginning of winter.

Suitable selection of shrubs

If you want to plant a flowering hedge in the garden, several factors are important for the choice of plants. This includes the growth height of the individual shrubs, their flower color and the choice of location (sunny, partially shaded, prevailing soil conditions, etc.). You should also check the compatibility of the individual shrubs in advance.

By the way:

You can also create wonderful path borders in the garden with flowering hedge shrubs. Low-growing shrubs such as the cinquefoil, which flowers in many different colours, are very suitable for this.

Small selection by flower colour:

white flowers: fragrant jasmine, lilac, apple rose, copper pear, Deutzia and various spars
yellow flowering: broom and forsythia
pink flowers: wild rose (rose hip), smoke bush, butterfly tree or blood barberry
red flowering: weigela or devil's bush (flowering in August)
violet flowers: currant, lilac, hibiscus, sackwort or dogwood

Hedges in blossom

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Ornamental shrub hedge

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Wild Rose Hedge

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Planting flowering hedges

» Planting distance:

If you want to plant a flowering hedge in your garden, you always have to ensure that there is a generous planting distance between the individual bushes at the beginning. Ideally, you should also choose shrubs thatif possible, have approximately the same growth height and growth width, which simplifies the care of the hedge in the long term (e.g. when pruning and shaping).

» planting time:

The best time to plant a flowering hedge is either early autumn or spring. The latter variant usually ensures good growth, although the flowers are still a bit sparse in the first year.

Care for flowering hedges

» Topiary:

A blooming hedge requires almost the same care as if the bushes were planted individually. So you should subject the hedge to a topiary (hedge trimming) either after flowering (in late summer) or in early spring.