DescriptionPlanting InstructionsAfter CareDelivery & Guarantee
Ornamental "All Seasons" Hedge Plants - Delivered in Bundles of 50 Plants with a 1 Year Guarantee
These "All Seasons" hedge packs are mixed bundles of 50 plants. You can buy the same plants individually by ordering them from their respective pages, but you will save money on the same size plants with the hedge pack.
We will choose 10 of the following plants to go into the hedge mix: we regret that we cannot accept requests for specific plants to be used in your pack. If you want to be certain of having a particular plant in your hedge mix, please order it separately.
Crab Apple, Cherry Plum, Field Maple, Forsythia, Wild Pear, Philadelphus, Wild Rose, Purple Berberis, Dogwood, Amelanchier, Hazel, Wild Privet, Blackthorn, Hawthorn.
These decorative hedge plants have a colourful range of leaves, flowers and bark that will provide year round interest, with a few edible fruit and nuts too. They are suitable for most gardens with reasonably fertile, well drained soil. Some of the plants in this hedge mix may be poisonous to livestock. The mix will include some thorny plants and will create an effective barrier.
All Seasons hedge packs are only delivered bareroot, during winter (November - March).
The plants in this pack will be 40-80 cms tall when we deliver them. All our hedge plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).
Spacing an Ornamental hedge:
Plant your hedging at 3 plants per metre, 33cms apart.
You can also plant at 5 plants per metre in a staggered double row,
with 33 cms between each plant along the row and 40cms between the rows.
Each pack of 50 plants will make 16.5 metres of single row hedge and 10 metres of double row hedge.
Growing Ornamental hedge plants:
This mix is suitable for any garden with decent drainage; most of the plants are native and very hardy. We recommend planting ornamental hedges in a sunny spot.
Prepare your site before planting:
It is good to dig over the area where you plant a hedge several months in advance, especially if the soil is poor. Destroy the weeds first: nettles, brambles and ground elder are tough and a glyphosate based weed-killer is the best way to remove them. Then dig the soil over; remove rocks, roots and other rubbish. Mix in well rotted compost or manure down to the depth of about 2 spades. If your soil is rich, you don't have to dig it over, but killing all the weeds is still necessary.
Watch our video on how to plant a country hedge for full details. You do not need to cut the plants in half after planting. It won't hurt the plants if you do, but it is only really necessary for stockproof country hedging. It is not essential to use mulch fabric if your hedge will be easy to water and maintain.
Remember to water establishing plants during dry weather for at least a year after planting.
Hedge Planting Accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer.
You can buy a hedge planting pack with sheets of mulch fabric and pegs to hold it down.
If you are planting in an area with rabbit and/or deer, you will need to use a plastic spiral guard for each plant, supported by a bamboo cane.
If your soil quality is poor, we recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of new trees and shrubs.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser and Growmore.
After you plant a hedge, the most important thing to do is water it in dry weather. If you didn't use mulch of some kind, you will also need to weed around the hedge. Both of these will be necessary for at least a year after planting.
Trimming Ornamental hedge plants:
From the winter after planting onwards, your young hedge should be trimmed lightly once every winter, until it is mature. When it is fully grown, you can clip it at anytime. A good time to clip mature Ornamental hedges is in late autumn and winter.
Special notes on caring for Ornamental hedges:
To get the best displays of flowers from your hedge, use a relaxed clipping regime that lets the hedge grow freely for the spring and summer. In winter, it can be trimmed or hard pruned as necessary. All the plants in this mix respond well to being cut back hard.
If you didn't use a mulch fabric, it is beneficial to mulch around the base of the hedge each year with well rotted manure or compost.
Hygiene & Diseases:
Dead, damaged or diseased wood can be pruned off as soon as it appears.
Disinfect your pruning tools between every cut if there is any sign of disease.
Burn or dispose of any diseased material, do not compost it.
Read our full terms and conditions here.
Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £9.49 + vat.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
You can choose the delivery week that suits you during checkout and we will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.
Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.
Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.
Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.
Our nursery has been supplying hedging, trees and shrubs to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedge plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.
