Formal Hedges are useful for boundaries, screens and windbreaks

• Beech, copper beech, laurel, Portuguese laurel, yew and box are perfect for formal hedging.

• When clipped into shape, in both large and small gardens, they can create beautiful natural screens and windbreaks.

• In a large garden, you can create ‘rooms’ and link them with arches.

• Formal hedges can be clipped back to reduce the amount of space they take up.

• The dark needles of yew (Taxus Baccata) or the shiny foliage of laurel (Prunus Laurocerasus) make a good background for an ornamental garden.

• Box (Buxus Sempervirens) provide a low, formal edge to the vegetable or along the sides of paths.

Instant Hedging

We have the following available for sale on a supply and plant basis:

• Prunus lusitanica - Portuguese Laurel

• Prunus Laurocerasus - Laurel

• Taxus baccata - Yew

• Fagus sylvatica - Beech

• Fagus sylvatica atropurpurea - Copper Beech

• Quercus ilex - Evergreen Oak

Hedges supplied with a watering system.

Guaranteed establishment.

Thinking Big for an Instant Effect

Mature hedging is useful for an instant effect. We supply large hedging plants to clients for a number of reasons: perhaps to replace an existing, dead hedge, or for privacy from neighbours or some people like the idea of a new garden with a more mature look. Our mature hedging is sold root-balled and, while it is more expensive than smaller plants, this will save several years of growing time.

Good Reasons for Planting an Instant Hedge

• You can replace an old hedge which is dead or damaged.

• You get immediate privacy from neighbours and they get immediate privacy from you.

• It gives a new garden a more mature look.

• Larger root-balled hedging can be planted over a longer period than bare-root hedging.

• It saves several years of waiting for smaller hedges to grow.

• From a cost point of view, it is much cheaper than building a wall.

• It is more permanent and environmentally friendly than a fence.

Semi-Mature Shrubs

• Hazel

• Purple Hazel

• Amelanchier

• Laurostinus

• Portuguese Laurel

• Lilac

• Cornus Kousa