Another hawthorn tip for those of you who planted your quickthorn (same as hawthorn) whips last year.  Hopefully you followed our instructions and cut each plant back by half when you planted it.  Equally hopefully, they all survived the weird winter last year and the very dry April.  (Second dry spring in a row for those who are counting).

Tags: Hawthorn, Hedging

Always good to get a mention in the papers.

The most recent was by Elspeth Thompson in the Sunday Telegraph, talking about edible hedge plants.  Always unbiased, we think it is an excellent article, which apart from mentioning Ashridge Trees as the place to buy your edible hedge plants covers the main basics of foraging. So you get an insight into what varieties to plant, a step by step guide on how to plant an edible hedge, pointers to good recipes and so on.  If you want to read more, you can find Elspeth’s edible hedging article here.

It is all hedging at this time of year….

Last year, a certain well known garden presenter who needs remain nameless gave some appallingly bad advice regarding planting yew hedging.  On the basis that if you tell someone NOT to do something they almost certainly WILL, the advice shall remain unrepeated here.  So here are the quick yew hedge planting pointers he (or she) should have concentrated on and that apply equally to almost all other hedging plants as well:

Tags: Hedging, planting, Watering, Yew Hedge

The quickest, cheapest and in the long run generally the most successful way to get a hedge the neighbours will be jealous of is by using bare root hedging plants.

The time to plant them is from the middle of November onwards (until the end of February really, although with TLC in April they can be planted in March as well).

The time to plan for that planting is NOW.

Tags: Hedging