Landscaping with hedges is a no-brainer when it comes to adding easy structure to your yard, whether it's a soft natural screen, smart edging for paths and borders, helping to divide up spaces or ...

For the centuries that gardening has been popular, the hedge has been the greatest of the unheralded champions of the art. Useful for defining garden rooms, channeling a view, providing an essential ...

If you are looking to add some privacy to your backyard in a natural way, you can do so with a dense hedge that's easy to ...

Motorized hedge shears are the most overused home garden power tools. They are very useful for hedging evergreen shrubbery into hedges and privacy screens. Tony Tomeo can be contacted at tonytomeo.com ...

Fences make good neighbors and so do hedges ... as long as they are done well. Hedges are the workhorses of the suburban garden. They define space. As superstars of the backdrop, they set the mood and ...

Benjamin Franklin famously advised, "Love your neighbor, yet don’t pull down your hedge." Unfortunately, hedges have generally been pulled down to make way for fences and walls; hard barriers that are ...

Tijana Blanusa works for the Royal Horticultural Society, and is based at the University of Reading. This project was funded by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 (Built Environment ...

After a summer’s worth of growth, now is the time to trim back any last shoots and shape your hedges before winter arrives. And the best hedge trimmers can make this tricky chore a lot easier. Our top ...

In the fall of 2020, with generous underwriting from The Gentlemen of the Garden, the Preservation Foundation planted an experimental demonstration hedge of native trees and shrubs. Now that the ...