How To Grow A Living Fence

Fences are well-liked in cities and suburbs. They offer distinct boundaries for your landscape, giving you privacy. They could also help keep pets and little ones, help cut down on gusting wind, and provide security. When you think of a fence as a natural design element, a living fence could be a real asset.

A Living Fence Could Be an Excellent Idea

While many property owners decide on new fencing options, plastic, chain-linked, or wooden, a living fence has plenty of potentials. These others don't offer. Using the correct type of hedge plant could offer firewood, food, or medicine. Perhaps they can also be leguminous plants, improving fertility in the neighboring soil and providing mulch substance for gardens. 

Living fences also obstruct wind, helping in halting soil erosion and keeping the soil moist. These fences could last years at a low cost. Moreover, living fences enrich the beauty of your outdoor space.

Simply put, a living fence is an excellent idea. It creates resources: food, mulch, medicine, and much more. 
The smaller number of trees we cut down to make fences, the better for oxygen production and carbon isolation. Maybe it's straightforward to understand, but a fence created instead of a fence that needs creating sounds way more reasonable.

The Basics of Make a Living Fence

Living fences are easy to make, though they do necessitate some patience. It's critical to remember the advantages are plentiful for those willing to wait.

Firstly, you must pick the right plant. Preferably, it's a plant that develops swiftly and grows excellently. The prospects are numerous. Hazel and mulberry work well in much of the nation, and inosculation is possible with pears or apples.

Some fruitful, fertility-building choices include honey locust, Siberian pea shrub, tagasaste, raspberries, blackberries, rugosa, and hawthorn roses. The truth is numerous things will work.

The necessary foundation for a living fence is to put your plants close enough together that they shut up any holes with leaves and branches. For some plants, this will take a couple of years. For others, getting the desired results will be quicker. 

Instead of using slow-forming hedges, consider using nitrogen-fixing, fast-growing legumes to speed up the process by providing a fence and offering natural fertilization. As the desired shape of your living fences takes form, thin out the legumes.

Osage Orange Living Fence

One of the most well-liked plants used for living fences in America is the Osage orange. While the seeds are theoretically edible and loved by squirrels, it's not a plant mostly wanted for its potentials in the kitchen. 

It's very tough, has painful thorns for safety purposes, and works great as a windbreak. Osage oranges, also called horse apples, are simple to grow from cuttings, seeds, or sprouts. Using this plant was common in many sections of the U.S. before creating barbed wire due to its reputation of being tight and durable. Within 12 years, the trees develop long-lasting, resilient wood that oddly makes for excellent fence posts.

Reach out to us at Harrisburg Tree Service for more information on living fences. Call and explore your options with our tree care experts. 

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