Evergreen Hedging Plants Our Speciality

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Box Green & Variegated

Plant Box 6-9in. apart. It is ideal for low ornamental hedging or edging. It is often used to mark the boundary of open plan gardens.

2-3 inch pots

2-3 litre pots

7.5 litre pots

Shaped Box: Cones & Balls

Holly

Plant Holly 12-18in. apart for an evergreen hedge with built in prickles for security. Excellent for thickening or gapping a native hedge as it keeps its leaves in winter. It is slower growing than leylandii and laurel and therefore more suitable for a low hedge although it can grow quite tall.

Holly Green

1 litre pots

3-4  litre pots

Holly Variegated

Leylandii

Leylandii: Green, Castlewellan Gold, Robinsons Gold & Variegated.

All our Leylandii are all pot grown for a quicker start and greater success. Plant them 2-3ft. apart for an evergreen hedge. There is a choice of plants in Green, Gold, and Green with White flecks. Leylandii hedges are excellent evergreen screens, but they must be controlled as they can grow up to 3 feet per year. Try to keep them shorter and thinner than you want and they will probably end up the right size. The gold varieties brighten up any garden particularly when viewed from the North.

Laurel

Plant Laurel 18in. apart for a glossy evergreen screen, the growth rate is up to 2ft. per year. Laurel is a good alternative to leylandii as it is much more controllable. Laurel is poisonous to Horses & Cattle so should not be planted against a paddock. It will recover if cut back hard into the old wood.

Portugal Laurel

1 litre pots

4 litre pots

Cherry Laurel:  (Rotundifolia)

 1 litre pots 

Up to 1 metre 

 1.0 - 1.8 metre 

 Very bushy 1.0 - 1.8 metre in 12 litre pots 

Lavender Hidcote

Plant Lavender 6-9in. apart for aromatic low growing hedging/edging.

2-3 inch pots

2 litre pots

Privet Green, Golden, Silver

Plant Privet 9-12in. apart. Privet usually keeps its leaves over Winter. There are Green, Gold and Silver varieties to choose from.

1 litre pots

2-3 litre pots

Thuja Plicata (Western Red Cedar)

Plant Thuja Plicata (Western Red Cedar) 2ft apart. Western Red Cedar is an evergreen hedge often mistaken for Leylandii, but it is much more controllable. The foliage is bottle green and aromatic, which makes cutting it a pleasure. It will recover if cut back hard into the old wood.

1 litre pots

4 litre pots

Yew

Plant Yew 12-18in apart. Yew is a stately evergreen hedge which can be kept very neat. It can grow a foot per year belying its reputation for being slow. The leaves are poisonous to horses and cattle and the berries are poisonous if eaten.

2-3 litre pots

5 litre pots

Deciduous Hedging

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Beech (Potted)

Plant Beech 9-12in. apart. Beech is deciduous but the dead leaves stay on the plants over winter giving an evergreen effect. It is usually planted bare root from November to March, although potted Beech can be planted at any time. Beech works well between a garden and paddock as it is more ornamental than a native hedge in the garden, whilst still looking right from the field too.

Beech Green

Beech Purple

Native Hedging (Potted)

Potted Native Hedging plants can be planted at any time. It consists of Hawthorn (quicks), Blackthorn, Dog Rose, Hazel, Holly etc. They are usually planted 9in apart in a double row or 12in apart in a single row. The mixture is usually 75% Hawthorn, with the remaining 25% made up of Blackthorn, Dog Rose, Hazel, Holly etc.

Blackthorn

Hawthorn Quicks

Rosa Canina (Dog Rose)

Rosa Rugosa

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Bare Root Hedging is planted from November to March. It is usually planted 9in apart in a double row or 12in apart in a single row. As the plants are dug up out of the ground they should be replanted as soon as possible. They are available either as single plants or in bunches of 25 plants. For more information click on 'Autumn (An explanation of moving and planting bare rooted plants in the winter)'.  

Plant Beech 9-12in. apart. Beech is deciduous but the dead leaves stay on the plants over winter giving an evergreen effect. It is planted bare root from November to March,  Beech works well between a garden and paddock as it is more ornamental than a native hedge in the garden, whilst still looking right from the field too.

Plant Hornbeam 9-12in apart. Although Hornbeam is deciduous the dead leaves stay on the plants over winter giving an evergreen effect in a similar way to beech. It is usually planted bare root from November to March. The advantage of Hornbeam is that it will tolerate wetter conditions than Beech.

Native Hedging

Native Hedging is planted bare root from November to March . It consists of Hawthorn (quicks), Blackthorn, Dog Rose, Hazel, Holly etc. They are usually planted 9in apart in a double row or 12in apart in a single row. The mixture is usually 75% Hawthorn, with the remaining 25% made up of Blackthorn, Dog Rose, Hazel, Holly etc.

Blackthorn 40-60cm

Plant Privet 9-12in. apart. Privet usually keeps its leaves over Winter.

Shrubs

Shrubs suitable for hedging or fedging (Plant 12-18in. apart)   Back to the top of the page

To soften fence panels try growing Cotoneaster Horizontalis, Chaenomeles or Pyracantha as a "fedge" along the whole length.

Aucuba

Berberis

Cotoneaster Horizontalis

Escallonia

Lonicera Nitida (Shrubby Honeysuckle)

Pyracantha

Quince Pink, Red, White, Orange

A selection of other shrubs from

Trees

 Ornamental Trees:

A selection of ornamental trees

 Native Trees:

A selection at

Fruit Trees

A selection

Wall & Climbing Plants

A selection at

Ornamental Conifers

A selection of large conifers in 7.5l pots

A selection of dwarf conifers in 5l pots