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.

Flowering plants are ideal decorative plants to add splashes of colour and sweet scents to your garden.  They can also attract butterflies and birds to your garden, turning it into a veritable paradise.

Flowering plants come in all types of shapes and sizes, for example: Flowering trees, such as frangipani species (plumeria);

Flowering shrubs, such as paper flower bougainvillea (bougainvillea glabra);

Flowering creepers, such as Cape honey suckle (tecomaria capensis) and the various jasmine species;

Flowering succulents, such as stalked bulbines (bulbine frutescens), red hot pokers (kniphofia) and variegated tulbaghias (tulbaghia violacea);

Other flowering plants, such as the various day lilies (hemerocallis) and arum lilies (zantedeschia), strelitzia (strelitzia reginae), angel wings (gaura lindheimerii) , impatiens, and of course various species of roses.

Should you want flowering plants incorporated stylishly into your overall garden design, you can rely on the landscaping professionals at Kingfisher Landscaping. 

Should you want plants in your garden, which are green throughout the year, Kingfisher Landscaping can incorporate evergreen plants into your landscaping design.  Evergreen creepers are ideal to plant in your garden, where you would like to cover a drab wall, screen an unpleasant view, grow natural shade over a pergola, or decorate arches.

Evergreen creepers include paper flower bougainvillea (bougainvillea glabra), star jasmine (jasminum multiflorum) and most other jasmine species, Cape honeysuckle (tecomaria capensis), Cape leadwort (plumbago capensis), plumbago (plumbago europaea), ivy (hedera) species and the tickey creeper (ficus pumila).

Should you want an instant garden, without paying an arm and a leg, Kingfisher Landscaping can incorporate fast growing plants into your landscaping design.  Fast-growing creepers are ideal to plant in your garden, where you would like to cover a drab wall, grow shade over a pergola, or decorate arches.

Fast-growing creepers include paper flower bougainvillea (bougainvillea glabra), star jasmine (jasminum multiflorum), passion flower (passiflora incarnate), and Rosa species, such as rambling roses.

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.

You will find hedge plants for any height of hedge you would like to grow.  Low-growing hedge plants include duranta “Sheena’s Gold” (duranta erecta), Cape leadwort (plumbago capensis), Mexican abelia (abelia floribunda), dwarf boxwood (buxus), and glossy abelia (abelia floribunda).

Tall-growing hedge plants include Cape-Forget-Me-Not (plumbago auriculata), Cape honeysuckle (tecomaria capensis), honey bells (freylinia tropica), large leafed privet (ligustrum lucidum), and sweet viburnum (viburnum sinensis).

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

The landscaping experts at Kingfisher Landscaping make use of hedge plants in the soft scaping aspect of our garden designs quite regularly.  Ultimately the design and type of plants selected depend on the architectural style of the home and the home owners’ preferences.