Haircut: 95 photos of decorative curly trimmed shrubs

Landscaping of the plot is one of the options for decorating a personal space. To do this, it makes sense to create a hedge that, with proper care, will be pleasing to the eye throughout the season. Care is carried out with the help of haircuts and trimming, giving the fence a certain shape.

As an aid, you can view the collection of photos of haircuts, characterized by special beauty and originality. In addition, you should know when and how to trim and cut, what tools will be needed for this.

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A few words about the history of Topiary

Ornamental cutting of bushes, its other name is "topiary", leads its history from Ancient Egypt and Persia. The full spread of this type of landscape art takes place in the 15th century. It was then that beautifully trimmed hedges became an adornment not only of French Versailles, but also of most of the palace gardens in Europe.

History knows a decline in interest in decorative haircuts, but today topiary is very popular around the world. We are talking about both professionals and amateurs who seek to give an individual look to their own site.

A tandem of trees with a lush crown and clearly shaped figures came into fashion, which is considered the prerogative of the British style. Processing are already grown bushes and trees.

Haircut Nuances

Topiary art involves painstaking work in search of a unique style. It is worth noting that not every species of trees or shrubs is suitable for decoration.

Each amateur gardener who wants to develop his own style can try his hand at the following plants:

boxwood - a poisonous ornamental bush that requires a haircut twice a year;
cotoneaster - a slowly growing shrub, optimal for creating any forms, but requiring frequent cutting;
holly - an excellent plant with spikes at the ends of leaves;
yew - care reminds boxwood.

For work, you should get a special tool: secateurs, scissors for cutting bushes, a hacksaw, a garden knife, a delimber. New shoots are cut with a knife, branches are pruned with a pruner, a crown can be formed with scissors, a delimber can cut deeply growing branches, and a hacksaw is useful for sawing thick branches.

Professionals do not recommend for beginners when creating a topiary to immediately take on tricky figures. It is better to try elementary forms - a ball, oval or cone.

Moreover, the work begins with the preparation of the sketch in order to clearly imagine the final result. Another precondition is that the working tool must be sharpened well.

Preparatory work in the absence of plantings on the site should be reduced to the planting of spruce and juniper. Planting is carried out in early spring, or in autumn, so that the plants have time to take root before winter. Between the trees, it’s worth maintaining a distance of 80 cm. After a year, the plants will grow enough so that you can start decorating.

An innovation in topiary is the use of steel frames, which allow creating more complex options for hedges, as garden shears for cutting bushes are still the basic tool.

Complex figures are the result of many years of work, and experienced gardeners are well aware of this, knowing that the final result with proper work will exceed all expectations. He will have a special perfection and will be able to please any contemplator.

Creating a complex figure involves going through several stages.First, a special pre-prepared frame of metal bars or wire is put on the young plant, which has the desired shape.

Plant growth leads to the fact that branches and leaves begin to go beyond. This process must be carefully monitored and the excess trimmed, despite the fact that in another place of the structure the plant may still not go beyond the framework. Over the course of several years, the bush will grow actively, all this time it is necessary to give it the necessary shape through pruning.

After the plant reaches the desired shape, the frame is dismantled, and the gardener continues to support it, constantly carrying out a curly cut of the bush.

Rules and recommendations for haircuts

To create an original design and refine your site, it is worth having a clear idea of how to carry out a haircut. For example, deciduous trees need to be cut once, preferably in the spring, ahead of the budding period. The crown of deciduous trees will increase their volumes by 5-10 cm thanks to last year's branches.

As for hedges, curly shrubs, they must be cut several times during the season. The number of haircuts depends on the type of plant itself. The first haircut is done in early spring, while leaving 5 cm last year's growth. All the remaining seasonal haircuts are equal to the first, trying not to go beyond the specified level of circumcision.

To avoid the loss of needles at the bottom of coniferous hedges, side cutting should not be done vertically. It is necessary to ensure that the fence gradually tapers to the top.

Whatever the type of plant, coniferous or deciduous, the haircut should be done according to the following scheme: start from the bottom and continue up. In addition, plants need to be nourished with cool water and fed with special vitamins. You can prevent the drying of the bush by leaving several live buds on it.

Topiary art professionals give some tips on how to care for bushes and trees. The abundant cutting of young plantings with special scissors for cutting bushes and grass will subsequently achieve lush vegetation. Such scissors cut grass and leaves along the entire length of the working blades.

There are also scissors with an elongated handle, allowing you to vertically cut the lawn and treat the hedge without using a stepladder.

Secateurs or a garden knife will also come in handy, as young plants need a special cut. To achieve the emergence of new shoots, you can cut young plants 15 cm above the ground. Finally, the ability to create an excellent hedge is determined by the rational use of several plant species at once.

Maintaining the decorative look of hedges implies mandatory haircuts and trimming procedures. The experience that will come over time will allow any gardener to have well-developed and well-groomed plants on his plot, as well as to achieve original landscape solutions in the area of landscaping.