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Various factors can be taken into account when determining the fastest growing hedge for you and your garden; from soil types to weather conditions to hardiness. Calculating the growing speed of hedges is done by what is the fastest growing in their best growing environments; that means giving plants what they need to grow at […]

When choosing the perfect hedge to invest in for your garden, you need to ask yourself: ‘What is the intended function of my hedge?’. Is it privacy and security? Appearance? Seasonal? Low maintenance? Quick growth? No matter what your priorities are, we have the perfect hedge for you, and this is your how-to-guide to help […]

Leylandii is a fast-growing hedging conifer, which produces a dense and rich evergreen hedge of any shape or size if they are trimmed well from the beginning.    Leylandii is very strong and wind tolerant, and will grow in full sun or shade. They will take a certain amount of salt exposure but will not normally tolerate being right on the coast. The dense foliage of this conifer hedging makes […]

  With the winter months quickly approaching, we’ll all be spending more time in the comfort of our own homes, where we’ll be seeking peaceful privacy and then eventually craving some summer lushness next year. An evergreen hedge in your garden can provide you with year-round usefulness and privacy, filter out noise and pollution as […]

An evergreen hedge in your garden can provide you with year-round interest and privacy, filter out noise and pollution as well creating as a great habitat for nature for the forthcoming months. Pot-grown evergreen hedging plants can be planted at any time during the year, but they do need to be well watered during the […]

An established hedge will not blow down in the wind like a fence, it does not need painting, won’t go rotten and will last a lifetime if trimmed regularly.  Most hedges only need to be pruned once a year and if they are kept to the same height as a fence panel, i.e. 6ft, they […]

During winter and early spring, you can plant rootballed hedging plants. These are plants that are grown in a field (rather than in pots) and are dug with a ball of soil around the roots. They are then wrapped in hessian and can be planted as they are to form a hedge. In the spring, […]

Late spring or early summer is the best time to trim most hedges including laurel and leylandii hedges. You can prune a laurel hedge with secateurs – which is not as labour-intensive as it sounds – or with a hedgetrimmer. If you cut it with a hedgetrimmer in late spring or early summer, it will […]

Autumn is a great time to plant hedging. The advantage of planting in autumn is that the soil has near-perfect conditions. It is warm, moist and easy to dig. This gives the hedging plants enough time to begin establishing their roots before winter. This means when spring arrives, they will be in an ideal position […]

You can plant container or pot-grown hedging plants at any time of year as long as you water any that are planted during the growing season – which is generally March to October – for the first year. All of our Leylandii and Laurel hedging plants that are for sale now are grown in pots […]

Heart and lung disease are Britain’s biggest killers and air pollution is one of the main causes.  Planting trees and hedges in urban areas can filter out significant amounts of particulates and help reduce the risk.  Although all trees and hedges have a reduction effect on air pollution, Leylandii was shown to be the best […]

We now have new batches of Laurel Hedging plants ready. We had high demand for Laurel and sold out of last year’s batches earlier in the year but we are now happy to have new batches ready for sale again. There are plenty Laurel hedging plants available in a range of heights and prices. Please […]