Leaves that hold through winter — cherry laurel, red-leaved photinia, fire thorn hung with fruit — turn a boundary into a green wall that cuts off curious onlookers and marks the limits of a garden. Choose shrubs that keep their foliage and you skip the leaf-sweeping, while the garden stays furnished when everything else is bare.
They have the advantage of keeping their leaves all year round, and bring greenery to the garden in winter.
A hedge of evergreen shrubs will thus have the advantage of staying green all year round, and will not loose its leaves, which will spare you all that working picking leaves up…
But you can also try mixed hedging. A mixed hedge is grown from both evergreen and deciduous shrubs. It has the advantage of being more diverse and offers a greater range of flowers and leaves.
Written by Gaspard Lorthiois | Loves helping out, especially when it comes to growing things. Worked in herbal medicine, runs a farm, and dabbles in tech. Master's degree and engineer.
