The most popular types of hedges:
European Privet
Ligustrum vulgare 'Atrovirens'
- Height: 2m
- Width: 1m
- Flowers: small, white, fragrant, Ⅵ-Ⅶ
- Foliage: green, narrow leaves
Very amenable to shaping.
Foliage remains until November.
Recommended cut 3-4 times a year.
Alpine Currant
Ribes alpinum 'Schmidt'
- Height: 2m
- Width: 1,2m
- Flowers: chartreuse, Ⅴ
- Foliage: green
Early thrives leaves.
Grefsheim Spirea 'Grefsheim'
Spiraea x cinerea 'Grefsheim'
- Height: 1,5-2m
- Width: 1-1,5m
- Flowers: white, Ⅴ-Ⅵ
- Foliage: gray-green leaves, small
Forming out after flowering, in bloom on previous year's cane.
White dogberry 'Aurea'
Cornus alba 'Aurea'
- Height: 2,5m
- Width: 2m
- Flowers: white, Ⅵ-Ⅶ
- Foliage: yellow
Durable, modest, fast-growing.
Can be planted in areas with high groundwater levels and water bodies in the vicinity.
Pruned in the spring to encourage strong new shoots to form.
White dogberry 'Gouchaultii'
Cornus alba 'Gouchaultii'
- Height: 2,5m
- Width: 2m
- Flowers: white, Ⅵ-Ⅶ
- Foliage: a greenish-yellow speckled leaves, yellow-orange in autumn
Durable, modest, fast-growing.
Can be planted in areas with high groundwater levels and water bodies in the vicinity.
Amber shoots effectively.
Ninebark 'Darts Gold'
Physocarpus opolifolius 'Darts Gold'
- Height: 1,7m
- Width: 1,2m
- Flowers: white, Ⅵ
- Foliage: yellow
Bright yellow foliage.
Purple-leaved Ninebark 'Diabolo'
Physocarpus opolifolius 'Diabolo'
- Height: 1,7m
- Width: 1,2m
- Flowers: white, Ⅵ
- Foliage: crimson
Bright dark red foliage.
Thunberg's Barberry 'Admiration'
Berberis thunbergii 'Admiration'
- Height: 0.4m
- Width: 0.3m
- Foliage: red with a yellow border
Use in low hedges.
Thunberg's Barberry 'Aurea'
Berberis thunbergii 'Aurea'
- Height: 0.8m
- Width: 0.5m
- Flower: yellow, Ⅴ
- Foliage: citrine, in autumn colored shades of orange
Use in low hedges.
Japanese Spirea 'Walbuma'
Spiraea japonica 'Walbuma'
- Height: 0.4-0.5m
- Width: 0.5-0.6m
- Flower: light pink, Ⅵ-Ⅶ
- Foliage: thrives in yellow with red tips, later pale yellow, russet in autumn
Use in low hedges.
After cutting off the flowering inflorescences, flowers again.
Japanese Spirea 'Little Princess'
Spiraea japonica 'Little Princess'
- Height: 0.6-0.8m
- Width: 0.6m
- Flower: pink, small shields, Ⅵ-Ⅷ
- Foliage: strong green, dense
The most compact varieties of spirea.
Use in low hedges.
After cutting off the flowering inflorescences, flowers again.
Japanese Spirea 'Arnold'
Spiraea japonica 'Arnold'
- Height: 0.8m
- Width: 0.7m
- Flower: dark pink, Ⅶ-Ⅸ
- Foliage: strong green, dense
Shoots at the ends of pages are stained dark red-brown with metallic highlights.
After cutting off the flowering inflorescences, flowers again.