How To Fence In The Country From Prying Eyes And Mask Unsightly Places There (part 1)

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

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If at one time you were lucky to purchase a house in a village with a large plot of 15-20 acres, then this article is mostly not for you, since most likely a high fence protects the garden-vegetable garden and the surrounding area from uninvited eyes.

A gooseberry raised on a trellis will hide the area from prying eyes In a different situation, there are owners of garden plots in collective gardens where the construction of such fences is prohibited (and what kind of fence can be built around a tiny plot?). This, of course, means that any of your actions are visible to all curious. You will be in full view. Of course, no one is doing anything special that should be hidden, but still not everyone will like to be constantly in a kind of "arena" - after all, you want to take a break from the daily hustle and bustle and be alone with yourself. So on my site the picture was exactly the same - on both sides of the dacha there are internal garden roads, along which gardeners and children run about every weekend; on the third hand, restless neighbors annoy. There is only one way out - if possible, isolate oneself from the outside world with suitable landings, creating impassable hedges from them, through which it will be problematic for an outsider to see anything on your private territory.

As for camouflage, this is also a kind of enclosure, but not the boundaries of the site, but some unattractive fragments inside it. This is true both for village gardens, vegetable gardens, and for garden plots, since almost all summer residents have various kinds of structures (old fence, shed, compost heap, etc.), the appearance of which is not particularly inspiring. But first things first.

Hedges around the site

An external hedge of plum trees and eleutherococcus thickets in the background It's okay if you can't build a dense fence, behind which you can't see anything, for certain reasons. A hedge is also not bad, and with a successful composition, a more harmonious, beautiful and fashionable frame cannot be imagined. A hedge planted around the perimeter of the site provides privacy and protection from the wind and prying eyes. Moreover, with its help, if desired, it is possible to artistically emphasize the internal structure of the garden - to delimit zones, hide unattractive objects, enhance the expressiveness of paths and flower beds, although these are already "noble excesses".

The assortment of plants for hedges is quite large: it covers all conifers and deciduous trees that can be cut, as well as numerous types of flowering and berry bushes. What to choose is a matter of taste, wallet and specific circumstances. If you consider it necessary to use every piece of available territory on business (in collective gardens with small plots this is more than relevant), then your choice is berry bushes, such as large-fruited rose hips, currants, gooseberries and raspberries. At the same time, currants and gooseberries (you can also grow rose hips) are more profitable to grow on vertical trellises (in full or lifting only branches from the middle of the bush to the trellis), which will make the hedge taller (see photo). For example, I havethis is how a large part of the site is fenced off - along the bottom (a site on a rather steep slope) there are bushes of currants and gooseberries, and to the left of the road there are raspberries. It turned out pretty practical and beautiful, and not a single inch of free space is wasted.

Green area hidden from view near the neighboring house If you need to create hedges that would protect not only from prying eyes, but also (of course, only to a certain extent) from cats and dogs, you should take a closer look at such plants as rose hips, gooseberries, hawthorns, barberries ordinary, eleutherococcus, and also ate ordinary. By the way, at first in Europe, gooseberries were valued precisely for their sharp thorns, creating with its help beautiful, but completely inaccessible hedges, and only then breeders noticed that the plant also has fruits. To form a tall hedge based on such shrubs, plants will have to be grown on trellises, and if you are not satisfied with a high enough hedge, then the standard technology of forming bushes will do. As for the spruce, it should be borne in mindthat a dense hedge can be obtained from it only under the condition of regular shearing (so that the spruce bushes more strongly and is lush, its young shoots are cut annually by one third or even half) and the interlacing of the branches. If the density of the thorny hedge from the above-mentioned shrubs and trees, in your opinion, turns out to be insufficient (for example, while the hedge has not yet grown especially), you can additionally plant milk thistle to it in the spring, the thorns of which will reliably protect against any inclinations from the outside.while the hedge has not yet particularly grown), you can additionally plant milk thistle to it in the spring, the thorns of which will reliably protect against any encroachments from the outside.while the hedge has not yet particularly grown), you can additionally plant milk thistle to it in the spring, the thorns of which will reliably protect against any encroachments from the outside.

If you are in a more romantic mood and are not afraid of uninvited guests, then experts recommend stopping at a free-growing hedge made of snowberry, elderberry, dirge, viburnum, lilac, mock orange, bubblegum, variegated turf, spirea, golden currant and others. Most of the above plants grow easily and quickly reach the desired height. You can also create a free-form hedge from trees and shrubs of different heights - it will look quite interesting. For example, a similar hedge of Ussuri plums in combination with Eleutherococcus protects me from rather restless neighbors (see photo).

Moreover, by combining your favorite plants into a free composition, you can even create areas completely hidden for outsiders on the site, where you can retire and enjoy a break from the "works of the righteous, sitting on a bench" and drink, for example, tea (see photo) …

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Svetlana Shlyakhtina, Yekaterinburg

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