Which live plants are used to make fences?
Question:SOME PEOPLE HAVE THEIR FENCES MADE ENTIRELY OF FLOWERS WHICH ARE TRIMMED NICELY AND GROW TALL TO MAKE A DARK CANOPY OF FENCE AROUND THE COMPOUND
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A few of my favourites are Wisteria, climbing roses - different varieties to standard bush roses, Jasmine, Pyracantha - red/orange berries in winter - all of these can be trained to a covering canopy. There are a range of Honeysuckles, Lonicera, which will grow quickly and can be trained. These have powerful scents and are wonderful to smell too.
Otherwise, Purple Beech plants can be trained as a thick hedge - they're deciduous, loosing leaves in winter, but retain their dead leaves, if pruned in summer time, providing a dense shield of privacy.
The common Laurel is an evergreen hedging shrub, that will overhang as it grows out - you can shape by pruning too and this is a fast grower. Great thick cover, as a hedging plant.
I tend to go for mixed hedging, to add variety of colour, flowers and leaf types, plus some evergreens mixed in, for winter privacy etc.
Good luck! Rob
there is a hedge called '' box hedge '' that ca be used for fencing, it has little flowers sometimes too.
willow
Try this link you might find something you like there are all sorts of plants and trees, good luck.
http://www.ukgardening.co.uk/index.asp...
Roses or Blackberrys
try forsythia its very easy to grow and looks very pretty too. you can take the cutting and just stick it in the ground where you want to plant and following year you have the plant. its that easy . they will have the flowers first and then the leaves good luck.
hazel withies
As I am in UK section I assume you are from UK. In the UK a fence is a wooden construction and not a living plant. If the "fence" is a living plant then it is a hedge. There are quite a few good plants for hedges, below are some of the common ones, and any problems I know about them:-
Privet - The most common hedge, nice small leaves but needs cutting about three times during the growing season.
Box and Yew - Nice evergreens that form dense hedges and are slower growing needs cutting once or twice in growing season.
Laural - A good hardy hedge, but grows quite fast so needs cutting three times during growing season. Largeish leaves which are better cut by pruning rather than with hedge cutter.
Holly - A very good defensive hedge, too prickly to try and get through. Needs cutting twice during growing season, BUT beware clearing up leaves they can hurt.
Beech - very nice in spring when new leaves grow and in autumn when leaves turn brown. But in winter there are no leaves so can see through hedge.
This is just a "taste" of the many plants that are grown successfully as a hedge.
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