10 shrubs for a fruit hedge

It is customary to plant hedges with ornamental and evergreen shrubs. Why not choose edible essences for a gourmet fruit hedge?

All you have to do is reach out to collect fruit to eat fresh, in jams or desserts!

Raspberry bush

• Variety: Rubus idaeus ‘Fall Gold’
• Harvest period: July-August and October
• Fruit: variety with large yellow fruits, soft and sweet
• Interest: its bushy habit ideal as a hedge, formed by veined leaves of a tender green
• Exhibition: half shade
• Ground : rich, fresh, neutral to acidic
• The little extra? This repeat variety offers a harvest at the end of August, then a second in October.
• To read : planting and caring for raspberries

Gooseberry

• Variety: Ribes rubrum ‘Blanka’
• Harvest period: July August
• Fruit: clusters composed of light and golden berries, juicy and fragrant
• Interest: its palmate and aromatic foliage composing a bushy shrub 1.5m high
• Exhibition: sun, partial shade (no scorching sun in the south)
• Ground : fresh but drained
• The little extra? Self-fertile and robust variety
• To read : planting and caring for currants

Korean mulberry

• Variety: Morus acidosa ‘Mulle’
• Harvest period: July to September
• Fruit: black fruits resembling large blackberries, with a sweet flavor
• Interest: it reaches up to 4m high but supports pruning very well, this shrub offers glossy and ribbed leaves, turning yellow in the fall
• Exhibition: Sun
• Ground : drained and deep
• The little extra? Very rustic and productive variety.

Goji

• Variety: Lycium barbarum ‘Sweet Lifeberry’
• Harvest period: August to October
• Fruit: small elongated and slightly sweet red berries with exceptional nutritional properties
• Interest: small purple honey-bearing and nectar-bearing flowers precede the fruits
• Exhibition: Sun
• Ground : ordinary, neutral to lime
• The little extra? Its lanceolate green-gray foliage, spread over supple and drooping branches.
• To read : planting and caring for Goji

Guava

• Variety: Acca sellowiana ‘Coolidge’
• Harvest period: October to November
• Fruit: round and green fruits to taste halfway between pineapple and strawberry
• Interest: its glossy, evergreen foliage with a silvery back and its bushy habit make it ideal as a hedge
• Exhibition: sun and sheltered from the wind
• Ground : rich, fresh but drained
• The little extra? Its white, skirted flowers topped by a bouquet of red stamens.

Arbutus

• Variety: Arbutus unedo
• Harvest period: October to December
• Fruit: round and red fruits with small spikes
• Interest: its pretty dark green foliage, lacquered, lanceolate and persistent
• Exhibition: Sun
• Ground : drained, neutral to acid
• The little extra? Beautiful flowering in white bells.
• To read : planting and caring for the strawberry tree

Siberian honeysuckle

• Variety: Lonicera kamtschatica ‘Duet’
• Harvest period: may June
• Fruit: elongated, blooming berries a bit like blueberries in appearance and tartness
• Interest: bushy shrub 1m to 1.5m high, with green, rounded and downy leaves
• Exhibition: sun, partial shade
• Ground : cool, moist, neutral to acid
• The little extra? Very hardy shrub
• To read : planting and caring for honeysuckle

Hazel

• Variety: Corylus avellana ‘Aurea’
• Harvest period: February to April
• Fruit: small white hazelnuts turning brown when ripe, we no longer present the greedy flavor of this fruit
• Interest: its rounded and ribbed foliage, yellow for the youngest leaves, then turning green
• Exhibition: sun, partial shade
• Ground : ordinary, drained (but not dry)
• The little extra? Its bushy habit forms a beautiful ball of 3m wingspan when ripe.
• To read : planting and caring for the hazelnut tree

Blackcurrant

• Variety: Ribes nigrum ‘Andega’
• Harvest period: July August
• Fruit: clusters of small round black berries, fragrant and tangy
• Interest: it grows and sets fruit quickly, the first harvest takes place 1 year after planting
• Exhibition: sun, partial shade
• Ground : ordinary, deep, cool, clayey
• The little extra? Productive and self-fertile variety.

Black elderberry

• Variety: Sambucus nigra
• Harvest period: June, August-September
• Fruit: clusters of red and then black berries, edible only when cooked
• Interest: its flowering in corymbs formed by a multitude of small white flowers
• Exhibition: sun, partial shade
• Ground : ordinary
• The little extra? The flowers are nectar-bearing and honey-bearing, the berries are appreciated by birds which come to feed in the fruit hedge.
• To read : planting and maintenance of elderberry

Video: Urban berry hedge (June 2022).