Gardeners all over the world choose to use garden walling around their gardens. There are many reasons for constructing these walls and many different materials that can be used for the construction. The following paragraphs will talk about some of these materials and reasons for building a wall around your garden.

The most popular reason gardeners put a wall around their garden is decorative. Plain and simple, they are hoping to enhance the overall look of their garden. Ornamental grasses are commonly planted close together in order to form decorative garden walling. Most ornamental grasses change colors as the season progresses, giving a garden a different look all the time. If you chop the grasses flush to the ground come the end of the gardening season, they will grow back beautifully the following spring. They will not ever need to be replanted.

Different types of hedges are also used to add to the perfect look of a garden. Rose of Sharon is a common bushed used as garden walling. This is because the Rose of Sharon bush is known to grow rapidly, and can easily be trimmed back once all the flowers have fallen off for the season. The flowers are very pretty and come in several different colors.

Holly is another variety of bush gardeners like to plant to form garden walling. As with the Rose of Sharon, Holly bushes grow quickly and require very little maintenance. They do not bloom flowers like the Rose of Sharon, but their leaves will remain green all year long. They also develop small red berries that look very pretty against the dark green.

Grasses and shrubs make good garden walls and not only when a person is just trying to dress up their garden. Grasses and shrubs can also act as wind barriers, and protect garden plants from potentially harmful winds. In areas where high winds are common, hedges and oriental grasses are often used as wind barriers.

In addition to decorative reasons and wind barriers, gardeners also build walls around their gardens to prevent animals from tearing up their plants. We have all heard garden food referred to as “rabbit food”. Gardeners not only have to contend with animals ruining their plants by digging them up, they also have to worry about animals eating the crop.

To prevent animals from getting into their gardens, gardeners often use fencing, stone, or railroad ties to construct their garden wall. Even these types of garden walling are not 100 percent fool proof. Some animals are known to dig, and can easily dig under fencing, or climb over the stone and wood. The type of material you ultimately pick to construct your garden wall should be determined by what kind of animals you are want to prevent from entering your garden.

In come cases, fencing will not work to keep animals out of your garden. Some animals will dig under the fencing, and some will climb over the fencing. The type of material you should use for your garden walling should depend on what type of animal you are trying to keep out.

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