Berberis ottawensis 'Superba' hedge plants (Red Barberry)

Cotoneaster franchetii hedge plants (Franchet's Cotoneaster)

Forsythia 'Lynwood Gold' hedge plants (Forsythia x intermedia 'Lynwood Gold')

Golden Leylandii 'Castlewellan Gold' hedge plants (x Cupressocyparis leylandii 'Castlewellan Gold')

Golden Leylandii 'Castlewellan Gold' hedge plants summary

• Evergreen conifer
• Fast growing
• Vibrant golden-green foliage
• Regular pruning quickly establishes a dense, neat hedge ideal for year-round screening, noise reduction, filtering out pollution particulates, or creating a robust windbreak
• Can reach heights of 25 m or be maintained as a lower hedge
• Grows well in all well-drained soil types and tolerates poor soil and exposed conditions
• Prefers full sun or partial shade
• If you’re looking for a dense conifer like Leylandii but without the super-fast growth rate, consider Western Red Cedar.

Please contact us by phone or email us at hello@hedgenursery.co.uk if you have any questions, would like advice, or if your order is likely to exceed £1,000 – we may be able to offer a better price than the online rate. Our experienced horticulturists answer calls and emails, and we’re always very happy to help.

Hebe 'Sutherlandii' hedge plants (Veronica pinguifolia 'Sutherlandii')

Choisya ternata hedge plants (Mexican Orange Blossom)

Pyracantha hedge plants with yellow berries (Firethorn 'Golden Sun')

Griselinia littoralis 'Green Horizon' hedge plants (New Zealand Privet)

Summary of Griselinia 'Green Horizon' hedge plants (New Zealand Privet) 

• An attractive evergreen hedging plant
• A cultivar of the standard Griselinia littoralis, ‘Green Horizon’ has slightly larger, darker green, oval-shaped leaves and is considered more compact
• Particularly good in exposed coastal situations in the South, creating a good solid windbreak
• Also good inland other than cold northern areas
• A naturally upright habit, easy to trim and keep neat
• Good for hedges from 1m up to 3m
• We have pot-grown Griselinia ‘Green Horizon’ available all year round

Please contact us by phone or email (hello@hedgenursery.co.uk) if you have any questions, would like advice, or if your order is likely to exceed £1000. We may be able to offer a better price than the online price. Our experienced horticulturists are available to answer calls and emails, and we’re always happy to help.

Photinia 'Carre Rouge' hedge plants (Photinia x fraseri 'Carre Rouge')

Photinia 'Carre Rouge' hedge plant summary

• Evergreen
• Striking deep red young foliage
• More compact, smaller leaved, and more vibrant red than its sister plant (Photinia Red Robin) 
• Ideal for sunny and shaded areas with the most striking colours and flowers in full sun
• Moderate to fast growth rate
• Not recommended for strongly alkaline soils
• Good for hedges from low up to 2.5

We have Photinia ‘Carre Rouge’ pots available in 3 sizes and heights.

Please contact us by phone (or email us at hello@hedgenursery.co.uk) if you have any questions, would like advice, or if your order is likely to come to over £1000 - we may be able to offer a better price than the online price. Our experienced horticulturists answer calls and emails, and we’re always very happy to help.

Evergreen Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Star Jasmine hedging plants summary

• evergreen
• fast growing
• climbing habit, good on top of fences, trellis or walls, but can be kept as a low hedge
• profuse, highly scented flowers
• deep red winter foliage
• best in full sun or semi-shade, ideally in a sheltered situation
• good in any well-drained soil
• non-native (native to China and Japan)

Dogwood (yellow stemmed) hedge plants - Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea

Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea (Yellow stemmed Dogwood) hedging plant summary

• One of the best Dogwood varieties for bright greenish yellow stems, so it is sometimes called Yellow Stemmed Dogwood and sometimes called Green Stemmed Dogwood
• We have a number of other Dogwood varieties - red stemmed Cornus alba, orange stemmed Cornus sanguinea and very dark red stemmed Cornus alba Sibirica
• Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea is often used in large-scale landscaping schemes to form a thicket, but is also an attractive feature in a garden
• Non-native (for a native Dogwood, use Cornus sanguinea)
• Flowering and berrying
• Suitable for all situations other than very wet soils and very shady sites
  
• Non-toxic
• We have Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea as bare root plants in the dormant season (November to April) and pot-grown plants all year round.
• Other Dogwood we have available - native dogwood with orange/red stems (Cornus sanguinea), red stemmed dogwood (Cornus alba) and dark red stemmed dogwood (Cornus alba Sibirica)

Economy Mixed Native Hedging Plant Pack - Countryside Stewardship BN7 and BN11 grant eligible - Farm Hedgerow (2 species)

• This 50% Hawthorn and 50% Blackthorn mix keeps prices as low as possible whilst still being grant compliant
• for packs with more species, see our full range of mixed native hedging packs
• All plants are grown from seed in fertile Herefordshire soil
• The 45/60cm specification shown below is Countryside Stewardship grant compliant (BN7 'Gapping Up', and BN11 'New Hedge Planting'). They are transplants grown over 2 years, and are sturdier, bushier plants than the 40/60cm plants grown over 1 year
  
• Available in packs of 50, 500 and 2500 or multiples of any of those. For help calculating how many you need, just give us a call
  

Please contact us by phone (or email us at hello@hedgenursery.co.uk) if you have any questions, would like advice, or if your order is likely to exceed £1000 - we may be able to offer a better price than the online price.  Our experienced horticulturists answer calls and emails, and we’re always very happy to help. 

Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)

Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) summary

• spectacular when planted en masse and bearing its Winter bright orange berries on distinctive grey foliage
• excellent at the coast where it can withstand coastal gales and salt laden winds and grows best on thin sandy soil in bright sunshine, but it is also good on almost any normal soil (not wet) and situation (not shady) and is also very useful for exposed inland sites.
• the roots fix nitrogen in the soil so it can be used as a pioneer species to improve the soil before other plants go in
• long, thin grey leaves, somewhat spiny
• vitamin-rich berries are used as food, traditional medicine and skin treatment
• grows to about 6m and forms a dense thicket
  
• native to Eastern Europe (especially Russia, Ukraine and Mongolia) and is commonly found across Europe and Scandinavia

Please contact us by phone (or email hello@hedgenursery.co.uk) if you have any questions, would like advice, or if your order is likely to come to over £1000 - we may be able to offer a better price than you see online.  Our experienced horticulturists answer calls and emails, and we’re always happy to help.

Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)

Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) summary

• a non-native pant (originating from America) but with good wildlife value
• good in all soils and situations, including trickier shade and exposed sites
• suckers from the base, so it makes a good dense hedge or thicket, ideal for game cover, but it can also be kept trimmed as a hedge
• small, oval, light green leaves
• small flowers in Spring become matt white berries about the size of a pea, which last well on the plant until eaten by birds but are poisonous to humans, pets and some animals

Lime tree saplings (Tilia cordata)

Lime tree saplings (Tilia cordata) summary

• large trees suitable for large gardens, parklands and farms but also urban settings due to their pollution tolerance
• deciduous with a nice yellow Autumn colour
• native, but quite rare in Scotland
• the pale yellow Spring "flowers" can be used to make a tea
• very wildlife friendly
• non-toxic to animals
• can be pollarded or pleached
• all our Lime tree saplings are grown in Britain
  

Golden Privet hedge plants (Ligustrum ovalifolium Aureum)

Golden Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium Aureum) hedging plant summary

• Yellow and green medium sized leaves, semi evergreen (most stay on the plants in Winter but some do drop and the Winter appearance is somewhat "thinner" than when the new growth appears in Spring
  
• Very pollution tolerant so a terrific species for urban areas and it is often seen widely planted with every house in a street having a Golden Privet hedge
  
• Non-native but we do also have Wild Privet which is native
  
• Toxic if eaten
• Quite fast growing and suitable for all situations other than very wet soils
• See also our Common Privet (with green leaves) page
  

Mixed Native Hedging Pack of 2 litre pot grown plants in packs of 20 or 50

This is our mixed native pack but in pot grown form so they are available all year round, and are more mature than our normal packs and bushier.  If you buy in the spring/summer/early Autumn, they will be delivered "in leaf" but they are all deciduous species so in winter they will lose their leaves.

• each hedgerow pack contains 50 plants, enough for 8-10 metres of hedging
  
• each packs contains 25 x Hawthorn, 15 x Blackthorn, 5 x Field Maple and 5 x Dog Rose
  
• the plants are all British grown
  
• all plants are livestock safe but see our Horse Paddock packs (which does not contain Blackthorn) if planting near horses

 

Euonymus japonicus 'Green Spire' hedge plants

Euonymus japonicus 'Green Spire' summary

•  this is one of our most popular species for low hedging/border edges and often used as a substitute for Box hedging
•  it's a dwarf hedging shrub with an upright habit and will not grow above 1m in height
  
•  Green Spire in good in almost all soils and situations
  
•  the leaves are dark green, small, glossy with a slightly crinkled edge
  
•  Euonymus Green Spire is a low maintenance hedging species, easy to clip and easy to keep to a tight, neat shape
  
• All these plants are grown in Britain
  

Pyracantha hedge plants with orange berries (Firethorn 'Orange Glow')

Pyracantha hedging plants summary

• Profuse creamy, scented flowers in May, followed by large clusters of bright orange berries
• A fantastic very prickly evergreen hedging plant, ideal as an intruder proof hedge
• Extremely good for wildlife - the birds absolutely love the berries though if you have orange and red plants near each other they'll eat the red berries first - we don't know why!
  
• Good in full sun or partial shade
  
• Good for hedges 1m to 3m in height
  
• Can be kept quite narrow
  
• Excellent to grow as a wall climber
• We have pot grown Pyracantha with orange berries and all plant options shown are available all year round
  

Goat Willow tree saplings (Salix caprea) (AKA Pussy Willow)

Sycamore tree saplings (Acer pseudoplatanus)

Sycamore trees are

- non-native but are thought to have been introduced by the Romans so they are completely naturalised

- deciduous

- wildlife friendly in that they support a wide range of aphids which attract birds

- fast growing with pale wood, and makes a lovely wood for furniture making, veneers, firewood and because the wood doesn't taint, is also used for kitchen utensils

- great as a woodland tree, in large gardens or parks, or as a forestry tree (trunk grows to 60cm in 60 years)

- quite large leaves turn yellow in Autumn, there are yellow flowers in Spring, and in Autumn the tree produces winged fruits (containing seeds) called samarus

- non-toxic to livestock

- these tree saplings are all grown in the UK

Please contact us by phone (or you can email us at hello@hedgenursery.co.uk) if you have any questions, would like any advice, or if your order is likely to come to over £1000 - we may be able to offer a better price than the online price.  We have experienced horticulturists answering calls and emails and we’re always very happy to help.

 

Rowan tree saplings (Sorbus aucuparia) AKA Mountain Ash

Rowan tree saplings summary

• Native
• Very wildlife friendly with profuse flowers and berries
• Deciduous
• Good in windy locations and at altitude as well as more normal situations
  
• Suitable for areas near livestock
• These tree saplings are grown in Britain
• We have this species as a bare root plant in the dormant season (November to April)
  

Pyracantha hedge plants with red berries (Firethorn 'Red Column')

Pyracantha (Firethorn 'Red Column')

• A very prickly evergreen hedging plant, ideal as an intruder-proof hedge
• Profuse creamy, scented flowers in May, followed by clusters of bright red berries
• Extremely good for wildlife - the birds absolutely love the berries
  
• Good in sun or partial shade
  
• Suitable for hedges 1m to 3m in height
  
• Can be kept quite narrow
  
• Excellent for growing as a wall climber
• We have pot-grown Pyracantha in various sizes available year-round.

Please get in touch with us by phone (or email us at hello@hedgenursery.co.uk) if you have any questions, would like advice, or if your order is likely to come to over £1000 - we may be able to offer a better price than the online price.  Our experienced horticulturists answer calls and emails, and we’re always happy to help.

Escallonia hedge plants with red/deep pink flowers (Escallonia rubra Macrantha)

Escallonia hedge plant summary

• One of our top recommendations for a pretty, flowering, coastal hedge, and it also works well inland
• Produces masses of dark pink flowers
• Evergreen, but it can suffer from leaf yellowing and leaf drop in cold weather
• Whilst good at the coast, it is not suitable for exposed coastal situations
• Medium growth rate and suitable for hedges from 1m to 2.5m
• Prune after flowering for maximum flowering the following year