Comments on: Hawthorn Hedging – Tip No. 3 http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/blog/hawthorn-hedging-tip-no-3/ Hedging plants, bare root hedge plants, evergreen hedges. Tips tricks, advice and trivia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:02:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: julian http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/blog/hawthorn-hedging-tip-no-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2441 julian Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:00:44 +0000 http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/blog/?p=170#comment-2441 When buying beech hedging there is always a balance to be struck between initial size and ultimate bushiness. If you go to http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/European-Beech-Hedge-Packs you will see a picture of row of beech hedge plants in front of a red car. The plants are 100/125cm beech in the first summer after planting, planted in a single row at 33cms between plants. They would be much denser if they had been planted at the same spacing but in two rows as a zig zag (a total of 5 per metre). However, planted as pictured they will have joined up in another year. So I would go for either this size or for 120/150 cms plants which are similarly bushy. Hope this helps When buying beech hedging there is always a balance to be struck between initial size and ultimate bushiness. If you go to http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/European-Beech-Hedge-Packs you will see a picture of row of beech hedge plants in front of a red car. The plants are 100/125cm beech in the first summer after planting, planted in a single row at 33cms between plants. They would be much denser if they had been planted at the same spacing but in two rows as a zig zag (a total of 5 per metre). However, planted as pictured they will have joined up in another year. So I would go for either this size or for 120/150 cms plants which are similarly bushy.

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]]> By: Vicki http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/blog/hawthorn-hedging-tip-no-3/comment-page-1/#comment-2440 Vicki Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:51:46 +0000 http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/blog/?p=170#comment-2440 I am confused about buying beech hedging. We would like it to be tall as quickly as possible but have been advised by family not to try and buy taller plants (5 to 6 feet) as they risk being very spindly. Will a four year old plant not be quite well branched, especially when grown for hedging? I have read we will have to trim down whatever we buy and that is fine but I don't want to spend a lot buying a taller product to end up with a thin hedge through buying tall plants in the first place! Help! I am confused about buying beech hedging. We would like it to be tall as quickly as possible but have been advised by family not to try and buy taller plants (5 to 6 feet) as they risk being very spindly. Will a four year old plant not be quite well branched, especially when grown for hedging? I have read we will have to trim down whatever we buy and that is fine but I don’t want to spend a lot buying a taller product to end up with a thin hedge through buying tall plants in the first place! Help!

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