Australian Country Homes

HEDGE BENEFITS

Foodscaping fruiting plants into hedges is a creative way to cram more tasty organic food into a small garden — or a big one, for that matter. And, from a design perspective, there’s the colour and interest of fruit and flowers. You may even inspire passersby.

Speaking more generally, hedges can screen out ugly views and noise, add privacy and windbreaks, define boundaries and create garden rooms. Repeated elements tend to be more visually relaxing than using different plants in the one hedge.

Edible hedges don’t have to be straight vertical walls but can be circular, flowing, low as well as tall,

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Australian Country Homes

Australian Country Homes5 min read
Quintessential Queenslander
Leah Stirton cheerfully admits she had never been west of the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly when she applied for a teaching position in Charleville. Freshly returned from London and nursing a broken heart, she wanted to move as far away as possibl
Australian Country Homes5 min read
Truffle Hunters
A bad day at work and a lucky find on the internet led Ina Ansmann and Timothy Noonan to a completely new life in Tasmania. “We were living and working in Brisbane and we’d both come home after a bad day at work and just thought there had to be more
Australian Country Homes3 min read
The End Of The Way
This large-scale painting dated 1906 by Australian female artist Helen Peters relates to the 1871 poem reproduced below. Helen Peters was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1866 and studied art under Edmund Sasse, Bernard Hall, Tudor St George Tucker and

Related Books & Audiobooks