 RHS Bare Root Mixed Hedging and our Cell Grown Hedging is a very low cost way of planting a hedge. The Bare Root is only available to buy and plant when dormant (November-March)Cell Grown, however you can plant cell grown plants throughout the year as long as the roots are kept moist. Bare Root orders ahead of 1st November will be stored to guarantee an early delivery date.
If you are buying Bare Root Plants, you may know that their survival depends largely on the quality of the plant AND the way it has been handled.
HedgeNursery.co.uk only sells Royal Horticultural Society Bare Root Hedging Plants. These plants, with known seed provenence, are grown in 220 acres of rich Herefordshire soil. As they are dispatched directly from the fields, rather than through a nursery, they are much fresher than imported or even stored plants.
RHS bare root plants are grown through low input horticultural methods. Plants are rotated with pigs annually, to improve soil condition. Water is harvested in the winter for use in the summer. No heat or polytunnels are used and, as the plants are dispatched direct from the fields, transport is kept to a minimum.
Cell Grown hedges come with the benefit of container grown plants but the price is nearer the bare root price. The plants come with their root systems intact, whereas bare root plants can lose the tiny fine feeding roots and root hairs when they are lifted. This means that they will become more established quicker than bare root. They can also be planted into warm soils when roots are active, outside the dormant period. Whereas the bare root season ends between April to September, September, October, March April and May are ideal months for planting cell grown plants. 60% of the worlds forestry trees are now cell grown.
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