{"id":8443,"date":"2016-03-22T05:44:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T12:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8443"},"modified":"2016-03-20T01:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:18:52","slug":"trim-a-straight-and-floral-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/trim-a-straight-and-floral-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Trim a Straight and Floral Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4100\/4848677633_79ebbab3e1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>August is a good time to trim your hedges and create a neat appearance for autumn and winter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When of Hedge Trimming.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When birds have flown their nests you can trim to your hearts content without disturbing the fledglings.<\/li>\n<li>Try to prune a wild life hedge only after the fruit have been eaten in late winter.<\/li>\n<li>Trimming in late summer leaves enough time for hedges to to put on a bit of new growth to cover ravaged twigs.<\/li>\n<li>Do not trim conifers later than August as they may go brown and unsightly.<\/li>\n<li>Prune flowering hedges straight after flowering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The How of Hedge Trimming<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To achieve a flat top stretch taught string to provide a horizontal plumb line.<\/li>\n<li>To make a bend in the hedge use double stakes with the string as in the photograph.<\/li>\n<li>Trim a hedge from the bottom upwards so trimmings fall away.<\/li>\n<li>Use secateurs to tidy up after trimmers if they leave a mess.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/copper-beech-hedge\/\">Beech<\/a>, Privet, Holly and Hawthorn all recover from hard pruning. Conifers will not regrow from brown wood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Flowering Hedges<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camellia will form an evergreen barrier.<\/li>\n<li>Forsythia has brilliant yellow flowers in spring but works best in a mixed hedge.<\/li>\n<li>Berberis creates a dense, thorny\u00c2\u00a0 hedge with spring flowers\u00c2\u00a0 and autumn berries. Deciduous and evergreen <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/trees-and-shrubs\/berberis-decidious-or-evergreen\/\">varieties are available<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Upright hardy varieties of Fuchsia can look good in a warm garden.<\/li>\n<li>Lavender&#8217;s fragrant flowers add to an informal low hedge.<\/li>\n<li>Informal hedges of large leaved <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/hedges-of-laurel\/\">Laure<\/a>l are often found in old gardens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August is a good time to trim your hedges and create a neat appearance for autumn and winter. When of Hedge Trimming. When birds have flown their nests you can trim to your hearts content without disturbing the fledglings. Try to prune a wild life hedge only after the fruit have been eaten in late winter. Trimming in late summer leaves enough time for hedges to to put on a bit of new growth to cover ravaged twigs. Do not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/trim-a-straight-and-floral-hedge\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}