Location and soil
It is best to plant your desired lilac hedge in full sun or bright partially shaded location where the bushes have at least four hours of sun a day. The darker the place, the fewer flowers the lilac will develop - but often the more leaf mass it gets. Yellow leaves and / or poor growth, on the other hand, are often an indication of a location that is too dark. Of the floor is ideally loose, well drained and sandy. On the other hand, lilacs tend not to like heavy clay soils.
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Planting time
So that the plants can take root well in their new location, you should plant them in autumn if possible. The month of September is ideal for planting the lilac hedge, when the air and soil are still warm. Alternatively, planting in spring is also possible, but then you should protect the plants against possible late frosts - otherwise the first shoots will simply freeze away. In contrast, plant bare-rooted lilacs in winter - if possible between December and early April.
Plant spacing
Basically, the lilac hedge naturally becomes denser the closer you place the individual plants. However, the shrub spreads its flat under the ground root very wide, so that a strong root pressure can build up after a few years. In general, it is recommended to plant between three and four Syringa vulgaris varieties per linear meter. These should be attached to walls, fences, etc. again have a minimum distance of one meter. So that the individual hedge plants are more airy, you can plant them offset instead of in a straight row.
Nice combination options
Even pure lilac hedges are a wonderful eye-catcher, especially in the flowering period, and you can put them together from a single variety or from different varieties. On the other hand, it becomes more colorful if you mix the lilac with other flowering plants combinethat either bloom at the same time or open their flowers when the lilac has already faded. For example, the following are well suited:
- Crabapple (malus)
- Weigela (Weigela)
- Scented jasmine / Pipe bush (Philadelphus)
- Kolkwitzia / mother-of-pearl bush (Kolkwitzia amabilis)
- Garden hibiscus / garden hibiscus (Hibiscus syriacus)
- Hydrangeas (Hydrangea)
- Bush Meadows (Lavatera)
- Ranunculus (Kerria japonica)
- Roses (pink)
Tips
Because of possible breeding birds, hedges are allowed between 01.03. and the 30.09. one year not be cut. However, you can carefully clean the lilacs by hand after they have bloomed.
