Plants for reducing noise鈥� in a garden
Plenty of plants, of a variety of shapes, sizes and colours, can help to reduce noise from outside of your garden, helping to create a more relaxing space to enjoy
Quick facts
- Plants in noisy areas can be used to trap sound
- Dense foliage of smaller leaves will be more succesful at trapping noise
- Choosing the right plants will ensure they are healthy and at their best
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The planting plan
This planting design provides a range of plants with known noise-filtering ability. Once established, these will thrive together while providing a variety of interest throughout the year.
Plants to help reduce noise
Choosing plants for noise reduction
By absorbing, reflecting or filtering sound, the volume or impact of noise can be reduced. The conifers in this scheme absorb sound with their combination of narrow but dense foliage.
The Ilex, Viburnum and Hedera columns can be pruned and maintained to encourage dense growth, and their thick, leathery evergreen foliage can also help reflect sound. This acts to extend the sound鈥檚 journey as it bounces around, and increases the chances of it being absorbed or filtered on that journey.
The juniper groundcover will help to reduce the area of bare soil, discouraging unwanted plants from growing and reducing soil moisture loss from wind and sun.
Until the plants have filled out, an organic mulch, preferably homemade compost, can help to lock in soil moisture and suppress weeds. Mulches should be spread when the soil is already moist to help trap some of that moisture before it dries out in summer.
1 - Thuja plicata 鈥楽toneham Gold鈥�
2 - Ilex aquifolium 鈥楢rgentea Marginata鈥�
3 - Cupressus macrocarpa 鈥楧onard Gold鈥�
4 - Juniperus squamata 鈥楬耻苍苍别迟辞谤辫鈥�&苍产蝉辫;
7- Juniperus 脳 pfitzeriana 鈥極ld Gold鈥�
8 - Hedera helix 鈥楪辞濒诲肠丑颈濒诲鈥�
2 - Ilex aquifolium 鈥楢rgentea Marginata鈥� is a female holly with bright green leaves with gold edges. It produces colourful red berries in winter if a male plant is nearby.
3 - Cupressus macrocarpa 鈥楧onard Gold鈥� is a columnar conifer with bright yellow-green foliage that performs best in full sun.
4 - Juniperus squamata 鈥楬耻苍苍别迟辞谤辫鈥� is an upright conifer that can be used to provide structure in your garden. Its short needles are blue-green in summer, turning blue-grey in winter.
5 - Viburnum tinus 鈥楨ve Price鈥� is a dark evergreen shrub which produces clusters of pink buds in winter, opening to heads of starry white flowers, followed by metallic blue berries.
6 - Ilex aquifolium 鈥楳yrtifolia Aurea鈥� is a male variegated holly with a dense habit. It will provide pollen for the female 鈥楢rgentea Marginata鈥� to get berries.
7 - Juniperus 脳 pfitzeriana 鈥極ld Gold鈥� is a compact evergreen conifer that forms a low-growing groundcover of spreading branches.
8 - Hedera helix 鈥楪辞濒诲肠丑颈濒诲鈥� is a small slow-growing ivy with variegated leaves of light grey-green with pale yellow margins.
About noise in gardens
By using strong, resilient plants, your border will look good, grow well, and once the plants are established, this will reduce the need for additional resources such as watering.
A simple planting plan helps to create depth, interest and good coverage in a border.
The challenge of noise exclusion
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