Flowers under a hedge
Hello All,
I am a very inexperienced gardener who is looking for advice to help me make the right plant selection.
There has been a new hedge planted outside my property on a new housing estate. I own the hedge and its maintenance from now on; so would like to make it look beautiful.
I would like to plant some flowers for instant colour (was thinking normal bedding plants, maybe spreading) and then some bulbs that may flower every year and some small plants that flower every year?
(ps there is an established hedge we would like to do the same with)
Any advice would be very welcome.
Best Regards
Derek & Natasha
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A deciduous hedge will suck all the moisture out of the soil during the summer and most summer flowering stuff will struggle to survive. Primroses and snowdrops are the traditional plants for hedge bottoms.
Remember to water the hedge every week for the first year, until it gets established.
I'd be tempted to replace some of new hedge with shrubs with interest - catkins now in spring then maybe a few feet along an escallonia or something that has flowers in summer and maybe and autumn interest one,
In nature hedges also have things like honeysuckle growing through them or garden flower wise a couple of clematis going through the bushes
You can adapt it for interest I'm sure
I agree with Matty, having clematis or honeysuckle growing through it will add colour to the hedge too
Maybe some woodland plants might work under the hedge? (but depends how dry it would get)but if it does get dry i'm sure there is dry loving shade plants? In my garden i have mainly all of my plants in pots which dry out pretty quick in the summer, but some of the things such as pansys have still survived.
Someone in my neighbourhood has aubretia under their hedge growing up into, which looks quite pretty this time of year when it is in bloom.
Hardy geraniums - choice of colours and sizes, tough as old boots.
Wild violets, Geranium Macrorrhizum is brilliant for dry shade, also sweet woodruff (Galium Odorata) and maybe some Perywinkle.
Don't choose anything to tall or it makes the hedge die off at the bottom. Violets, primroses, snowdrops, lovely
In the sticks near Peterborough