Green Beech Trees
These Green Beech trees are native and deciduous. They make a great specimen in big gardens and parkland settings - they are also a classic woodland tree.
The Beech trees on this page are "standards" - the largest starting size that you can order. If you let them grow freely, they will reach the same size as our Beech Hedging Plants, just in a shorter time. You can also have Copper Beech standards.
Beech is loved for its lush, neat, mid-green leaves that cast good shade in summer. They turn a golden russet brown in the autumn, setting off its smooth grey bark to perfection.
The Whomping Willow in the Harry Potter book & film, The Prisoner of Azkaban, was based on a real beech tree known as the Queen Beech in the woods of Frithsden Beeches, Hetfordshire.
Planting Beech Trees: They are tolerant of any soil type, except wet ground. If you see puddles sitting on the soil surface 12-24 hours after an extended period of heavy rain, the chances are that your soil is too damp for beech to grow well.
Beech grows to 25m.
If you are unclear about the way standard trees are sized, take a look at our Guide to Standard Tree Sizing or you can go back to our main standard trees page.