How many plants per meter?

Two plants per meter of beech hedge

• 2 beeches per meter of hedge
• possibly 3 to 4 beeches per meter
• Remove excess red beeches later
• alternative: plant beech staggered in a zigzag

As a rule of thumb, you should have the beech trees in the hedge in one Plant spacing of 50 centimeters. This means that you need two beeches for every meter of beech hedge. For 25 meters of hornbeam hedge, you need to buy 50 beeches.

Get the beech hedge tight faster

It takes at least two years for a beech hedge to be really dense. Gardeners in a hurry can speed up this process.

You simply plant the hornbeams closer together. Instead of 50 centimeters, they only leave 20 or 30 centimeters of space. This makes the hedge very dense very quickly.

However, this measure not only had a higher one pricebut it means a lot of work after a few years. Then the surplus beech trees have to be removed. If you stay in the beech hedge, you rob the other trees of the necessary ones

nutrient.

Plant wide beech hedges in a zigzag

If you have a broad beech hedge want to plant, you can use an old gardening trick.

Simply plant two rows of beech trees over the entire length of the future hedge, offset to the side, i.e. in a zigzag. However, you should keep the planting distance of around 50 centimeters, as cutting out excess beeches is very difficult with this method of planting. You will then need four beech trees per meter of hedge.

By the Pruning the beech hedge after a few years it is no longer noticeable at the desired width and height that the beeches were planted in two rows. In this way you will quickly get a very dense hedge that does not allow a clear view.