The beauty of November days is above all the mysterious mists flowing in stripes through the garden and frosted hedge bushes shining in the rays of the autumn sun.Ice crystals emphasize the shapes of serrated leaves of holly and silvery sparkles decorate small-leaved shoots of boxwood and barberry.
As soon as the sun scatters the morning mist, the leaves of beeches, maples and hornbeams growing in the hedges start to glow with autumn colors. It's hard not to be delighted with such beautiful paintings of late autumn. Hedges are a very valuable element of this scenery.Their colors and structure are as important as their utility value (shield function).
Let's pay attention to how lovely a resting vegetable garden looks like, surrounded by a very low, dense line of bushes.And how willingly do we sit on a bench with a hedge behind our backs that ensures safety?And it doesn't have to be a very high surface. It is sufficient that the top edge of the bushes even exceeds the support of the bench by a dozen or so centimeters.
On the other hand, the hedge behind the perennial bed near the border should be about 180 cm high.The magnificent green wall is not only a perfect background for colorful flowering plants, but also a screen that effectively blocks out not very interesting views, such as a compost pile in the neighbor's garden.In the case of a very long bed, for example along the walls of the house, you can opt out of the hedge-background in favor of a half-high row marking the invisible edge of the rebate.
It provides structure to the entire flowerbed, even when many summer flowers lose their charm.Besides, it makes the floral arrangement of a narrow bedding a lighter look.Less impressive walls are suitable for barberry shedding leaves or an evergreen privet. It is very effective to combine a low hedge with taller, late flowering grasses and autumn asters rising behind it.
