The use of hedges in your garden has numerous advantages.  They can be used to create privacy in your garden; as dividers to create different areas in your garden; to muffle noise and act as a windbreak; to create mazes; to attract birds and butterflies to your garden; to hide ugly walls; to improve your security around your home and garden; and to act as a green background for other plants in your garden.  Hedge plants are relatively cheap and low-maintenance.

The maintenance required once you have planted your hedge plants, involves pruning when the plants are still small.  This will encourage the plant to grow dense.  You also need to pinch the tips, while the plants are still actively growing to promote the growth of side shoots.

If you want to plant a hedge for security – along your border walls – you can use a paper flower bougainvillea (bougainvillea glabra), num-num (carissa bispinosa) or natal plum (carissa macrocarpa).

Other plants that can be used as security measures include aloes, cacti, agaves, and any other plant that has thorns.

The landscaping experts at Kingfisher Landscaping design and implement exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner and can provide the home owner with any exterior decorative feature.  We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service.  We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

Ultimately the design and type of plants selected depend on the architectural style of the home and the home owners’ preferences.

Golden barrel cacti (echinocactus grusonii), commonly known as mother-in-law’s cushions, are perfect feature plants to decorate our unique Cubedec pots, manufactured by our in-house décor company, Badec Bros Deco.

These exceptional plants, with their ball-like shape and yellow thorns, are resilient and grow very easy.  Being succulents, they are very low maintenance, making them ideal pot plants.

Pot – or container – gardening is a very low-maintenance way of creating a garden and is also ideal for small areas.  Another advantage to pot gardening is that you can bring the outdoors indoors.

The landscaping experts at Kingfisher Landscaping design and implement exceptional and beautiful gardens in a professional manner.  We pride ourselves in providing our clients with excellent, efficient and comprehensive service.  We offer all the products and services associated with creating a peaceful, and aesthetically pleasing outdoor living space which will complement the style of your home and in which you can relax.

Succulent plants are excellent for using in landscape design.  They are water saving plants, because they retain water in their leaves, stems and roots.  This means that they require very little watering and are, therefore drought resistant.

Water retention gives succulents their fleshy appearance, hence the name succulents.  Fat plants retain water because they are compact and have either waxy, hairy or spiny exteriors which reduce water loss and the stems of these plants comprise the main site for photosynthesis.  The leaves on these plants are either reduced, spherical, cylindrical or completely absent.  This also contributes to their water wise qualities.

Succulents have very varied and interesting shapes and sizes, making them ideal decorative plants.  A dry bed, planted with succulents, create a bold and interesting focal point in any garden.

Aloes, cacti, and agaves are all succulent plants.  Kingfisher Landscaping frequently uses variegated tulbaghia (tulbaghia violacea), fox tail agave (agave attenuata), tree aloe (aloe barberae “bainesii”), Cape aloe (aloe ferox), mountain aloe (aloe marlothii), golden barrel cactus (echinocactus grusonii), rubber bush / finger plant (euphorbia tirucalli), halfmens (pachypodium namaquanum), and stalked bulbines (bulbine frutescens).

Succulents stay green through the whole year and many flower during the winter months, which means they add a splash of colour to your garden during winter.  These are also very low-maintenance plants.

Kingfisher Landscaping often uses pebbles, gravel and sandstone chunks (arabella rock) to fill plant beds around succulents or bamboo.  Raised planters especially appear rounded off neatly with white or charcoal coloured pebbles.  Arabella rock brilliantly enhances a dry bed, planted with succulents such as rock roses and cacti. 

Gravel can be used as a filler in between stepping stones, and of course for a neat and low-maintenance parking area.

Hardscaping materials such as these can really round off your entire landscape beautifully.