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When to trim the hedge
When trimming a hedge distinguishes how to intervene in it. Trimming a hedge means giving the plant the desired shape from the first days of life, guaranteeing a continuous renewal of leaves throughout the year. The important thing is to take into account what you want to achieve as a final project, to help us achieve it with little tips. Precisely in the first years, the so-called formation pruning is carried out, where one tries to prune the hedge according to an upward logic, in order to reach the desired height as quickly as possible. On the other hand, the other pruning, the maintenance pruning, is mainly used to obtain the shape that one wants to give to the bushes of the hedge. The most exhausting time to carry out this last pruning is undoubtedly the end of June,
plant a hedge
Before starting the installation of a hedge, it is necessary to make a kind of trench which is an excavation that determines the path in which we later want to raise our hedge. Once the imaginary or physical landmarks had been taken, we began to draw initially imaginary lines then we defined them using a few posts and a stretched rope to obtain the level curves of the hedge. The plants are placed and aligned in the created trench, continuing around the entire perimeter. Some hedges provide for the union of different species among the most common that we remember: Laurel: it is a rustic plant that grows quickly and can reach very large dimensions. It requires at least two annual prunings. Cypress: also this fast-growing plant, can reach nine meters in height, ideal for quickly creating walls and barriers and protecting yourself from prying eyes. Magnolia: this is the classic hedge found in municipal parks and which can reach more than ten meters in height. If: grows slowly and reaches an average height ranging from one and a half to three meters.
Pruning becomes an art
Now, hedge trimming has become a real art, making it possible to create hedges that look like fantastic characters, numbers, scriptures, simple and complex structures such as animals, geometric figures such as cylinders, cones and even three-dimensional shapes. This art is called topiary. It all starts with what you want to do, where to do it and what type of hedge suits our project. From there, its skeleton and perimeter structure are created using a common metal wire. It is advisable to arrange it before planting the hedge, so that when growing, pruning is carried out first for formation and then for maintenance, so that the cuts allow the hedge to be shaped according to the structure that we design. The most used tools for this
Choosing the right tools for hedge trimming should allow us to assess not the price but the quality of the tool itself. Very cheap tools can easily lose the cut and a dull blade can damage the branch when cutting and cause dangerous infections. Certainly, to achieve the best results, it is necessary to use sharp scissors and shears. You can use manual shears for small branches, serrated blades for medium branches, secateurs for larger ones, electric hedge trimmers with single or double blades respectively for linear cuts or to create particular shapes. Also remember that protection is the main thing that should never be underestimated when working with tools of all kinds. so put on gloves