Designing Landscapes With Instant Hedges

How Living Walls™ can help a new landscape project feel established from day one

A newly created or renovated landscape can include the right materials, planting and layout and still feel unfinished.

One reason is that the hedge structure shown in the design has not developed yet. With conventional hedge planting, the design may be clear on the landscape plan, but the initial result is still a row of separate plants.

Living Walls™ instant hedges provide that structure from the day they are installed. Supplied in one-metre lengths, they create a continuous hedge so you do not have to wait years for individual plants to grow together.

This means outdoor areas can be defined, hard landscaping softened, views framed and screening established from the start.

Define outdoor spaces from the start

A hedge can separate one part of a landscape from another without adding another wall or fence.

Living Walls™ hedges are grown at different heights for different roles. Low hedges can define paths and planting beds, mid-height hedges can shape terraces, pool areas and outdoor rooms, and taller hedges can provide greater enclosure or screening.

In larger landscapes, they can divide your site into a series of connected spaces rather than leaving it as one open area.

Because Living Walls™ hedges arrive fully formed, your outdoor spaces can be clearly defined from the day the landscape construction is completed.

Help planting and architecture work together

New buildings, paving, retaining walls and fences often have strong, clean lines. Without established planting, the completed landscape can still feel visually hard.

A Living Walls™ hedge can soften those surfaces while complementing the clean lines of the building.

A neatly clipped hedge can reinforce contemporary architecture. A flowering variety can soften a more structured setting. Dark foliage can provide contrast against pale walls, while repeated hedge lines can connect separate parts of a larger site.

Using different hedge heights can also add depth and help the planting relate more comfortably to the scale of the building and site.

Because the hedge is already fully formed, your building and landscape feel more closely connected from the outset.

Make routes, views and boundaries clear

Living Walls™ hedges can also help make movement through your site clearer.

A low hedge beside a path can reinforce its direction. Parallel hedge lines can lead people towards an entrance. Carefully positioned hedges can show where visitors should turn or pass between spaces without relying entirely on paving, barriers or signs.

They can also manage what is seen.

Clipped hedges can frame a doorway, sculpture, water feature or distant outlook. Pleached Screens add foliage at a higher level, making them useful where greenery or screening is needed above a fence or wall while the area below remains more open.

Your hedge can screen unwanted views while drawing attention to the parts of the landscape that matter.

Because the hedge arrives already formed, these routes, boundaries and framed views are present from the start.

Choose the hedge by the job it needs to do

Before choosing a variety, consider the role your hedge needs to play.

Does it need to define an outdoor room, guide people towards an entrance, soften a wall, frame a view, add height above a fence or provide screening?

That purpose will help determine which hedge is right for you.

Living Walls™ instant hedges are available in a range of heights and varieties. We can help identify suitable options based on what you need your hedge to do and the conditions of your site.

Planning a hedge for your project?
Explore the Living Walls™ range to compare low, mid-height, tall and pleached options, or contact us and we can help identify a hedge that suits the role it needs to play in your landscape.

We’ve grown your hedge for you.