Pot-grown Purple Beech Hedging Plants
Known as Purple Beech or copper beech for its shining young leaves in spring & glorious golden brown autumn colour.
These are potted plants for summer delivery: you can also buy bareroot copper beech hedging for winter planting here, buy large copper beech trees or browse all of our beech trees for sale.
Names of Purple Beech: Also called Copper Beech, you may see this tree called Fagus sylvatica purpurea, atropurpurea or atropunicea. They are all the same tree.
A magnificent hedge plant, the Purple Beech is slightly slower growing than its green cousin. We think that this is a small price to pay: a deep purple hedge in your garden makes all the other green plants look that much brighter in contrast.
Clipping copper beech for winter cover:
Copper Beech is not an evergreen, but if you clip it in summer it will hold onto its autumn leaves all through the winter, giving you a solid barrier & slowing down those cold, dry winter winds.
Planting Copper Beech:
Must have a well drained soil.
If your site is a bit shady, green beech is a better choice.
It
is a bit slower growing than its green cousin. We recommend improving your soil with some good manure before planting to give them a boost.
Plant a single row hedge at 3 plants per metre (33cms apart).
Treat Purple Beech exactly the same as green beech. Plant at 5-6 per metre in a double row.
As a specimen tree Copper beech will grow to 25m.
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