Cut the hornbeam hedge to the desired width
How wide the hornbeam hedge can be depends on the location. Because the plant can also be very narrow when needed cut can be planted in front of fences or near the neighboring property. Just leave enough distance to fences or walls, so that you can also see the hornbeam hedge from behind maintain can.
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If you like it, you can cut a hornbeam hedge as narrow as a board, it doesn't matter to the plants. They can take you Cut into the old wood just as good as sticking, which means that the hornbeam is cut down to the ground level.
Normally hornbeam hedges are 40 to 50 centimeters wide, depending of course on the total height of the hedge. The height of a hornbeam hedge can range from 50 centimeters to 3 meters.
Cut narrow hornbeam hedges frequently
If you want the hornbeam hedge to be very narrow in width, you will need to prune it back frequently. The cut stimulates the formation of new shoots, so that the hedge branches out well, but also increases steadily in width and height overall.
It is better to cut the hornbeam hedges conically
In order for the hornbeam hedge to stay nice and tight below, it has to be thinned out frequently. But balding can also be avoided with the right cut.
The width of the hornbeam hedge should be larger at the bottom than at the top. So cut them a little tapered. If the hedge is 40 centimeters wide at the bottom, it should only be about 30 centimeters wide at the top.
Through this cut, the light also reaches the lower regions, so that new shoots form there.
Tips
Hornbeam hedges are also popular in agriculture, for example in the typical Knicks of Schleswig-Holstein. The hedges act as wind protection from pastures and fields. Low and narrow hornbeam hedges are popular as grave borders in cemeteries.
