Tom Massey's WaterAid garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2024
16.05.2024 - 12:45 / balconygardenweb.com / Raul Cornelius
Why have boring fences and hedges around your house when you can fill them up with different shades of colors nature has on offer with its stunning blossoms!
Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculata
Also famous as limelight hydrangea, it offers stunning lime green blooms with compact height. It also does remarkably well in shade and light, both.
Botanical Name: Buddleja davidii
Summer lilac is another flowering plant that can make for a colorful low hedge. It can also draw in hummingbirds and butterflies each year from summer to fall.
Botanical Name: Rosa rubiginosa
Also famous as the eglantine rose, it offers sweetly fragrant flowers that can keep your yard and your surroundings smelling lovely. It is also easy to care for!
Botanical Name: Viburnum carlesii
Plant Korean spice viburnum and you will love how it bursts into fragrant and large blooms every spring. If you want a compact form, choose ‘Spice Baby.’
Botanical Name: Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea makes for another beautiful flowering hedge plant with its flowers in shades of purple, white, red, yellow, or pink. Prune it regularly to maintain the desired shape.
Botanical Name: Lantana camera
Lantana is famous for its multi-color flowers that grow in groups of orange, red, purple, and yellow shades, making it a perfect candidate for a vivid hedge!
Botanical Name: Spiraea
Spirea is usually a common landscape specimen because it is very easy to grow and makes for an excellent low hedge plant with non-stop blooms from spring to fall.
Botanical Name: Canna indica
Canna grows upright with light-green stalk having sheathing leaves and flowers, making it look ideal as a hedge plant. Plant it in groups with different colors for the best display.
Orange Jessamine makes for a
Tom Massey's WaterAid garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2024
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