Hedge Plants
Looking for the best hedge plants for shady areas? From evergreen favourites like Yew and Holly to deciduous options like Hornbeam and Hazel, our plant experts guide you to lush, thriving hedges even in low light. Read more to discover top tips for creating dense, healthy hedges that transform your garden.
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Discover how Cornwall is leading the way with public edible hedges. Advice from Ashridge experts shows how you can create your own productive hedges at home.
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Beech trees are a gardener’s delight, offering year-round interest, structural elegance, and rich autumnal colour. Experts in bareroot plants reveal how these versatile trees and hedges can thrive.
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Box hedges are a gardener’s delight when properly cared for. By following simple steps—you can enjoy a vibrant, long-lasting hedge. With Guaranteed Plants That Grow, even new gardeners can achieve elegant, evergreen structure that withstands disease and rewards your effort year after year.
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A tree or hedge whip might be small, but it holds enormous potential. Nurseries like us cultivate fields full of whips, serving everyone from foresters tackling large projects to gardeners looking to add instant impact at home. With guaranteed plants that grow, you can plant with confidence.
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New hedging and young trees need careful attention to thrive. Follow our planting advice since 1949: soak the soil deeply at the base of each plant, water early or late in the day, and use rainwater wherever possible to encourage deep roots and healthy growth.
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Hedges and trees are more than decoration—they’re a vital part of the British countryside, supporting wildlife and creating lasting garden structure. With guaranteed plants that grow, now is the perfect time to plant bareroot trees and hedging that will flourish for years to come.
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Whether you’re filling a gap in the hedge, planting a show-stopping cherry, or creating a cosy “room” with copper beech, our Guaranteed Plants That Grow make it easy.
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Choosing the right hedge for your garden, orchard, or farmland can seem daunting, but with our Advice from Experts, you’ll know exactly which plants to select, how to position them, and how to maintain a healthy, wildlife-friendly hedge for years to come.
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Whether for hedging or forestry, bare-root stock outperforms container-grown plants in almost every way. Ashridge Nurseries explains why planting dormant, field-grown hedging and trees during the winter months saves money, benefits the environment, and produces stronger, more vigorous plants. From superior root development to easier planting and reduced risk of pests, discover why Ashridge – The Voice of Experience recommends bare-root stock for lasting success in your garden.
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Just planted a beech hedge? Discover how to transform a bare patch of garden into a beautiful, structured space. Our guide shares tips on soil preparation, planting, watering, and mulching to help your hedge thrive.
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Container-grown hedging plants are perfect for planting all year round, providing instant privacy, security, or a splash of greenery. Plant, water, prune, and enjoy your growing hedge!
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Remove dead or diseased wood as needed, with planting advice since 1949 to guide you, and enjoy healthy, well-shaped plants all year round.
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If you fancy your own (unofficial) weather-forecasting hedge, you can always plant a beech or two from our bare-root collection before the season ends, with guaranteed plants that grow . Relax, enjoy, and watch your garden grow.
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At Ashridge Nurseries, we’ve sold millions of hedging plants over the years, and hawthorn remains a firm favourite for its resilience, beauty, and charm. Trimmed and tended, it’s equally stunning, forming a dense, elegant boundary hedge that’s a joy in any season, offered by professional growers you can trust. If you’ve space in your garden and haven’t planted one yet, it might be time to discover why the humble hawthorn hedge is such a classic.
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Thinking of planting a hawthorn hedge? Forget the weedkiller — there’s a better way. No chemicals, no constant weeding — just healthy, happy hawthorn, supported by experts in bareroot plants . Sit back, relax, and watch your hedge grow.
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If you’re planting a new beech hedge, don’t be afraid to prune confidently, watch it fill out, and enjoy the transformation year after year.
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Continuing our ode to hedging — and why it’s a thoroughly Good Thing. Hedges do far more than mark boundaries; they shelter wildlife, protect gardens from wind and frost, deter intruders (even the two-legged kind!), and bring life, colour, and song to your outdoor space. Plant one, watch it grow, and enjoy the difference, with professional plant suppliers guiding you every step of the way.
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Ashridge Nurseries is our family business — we grow and sell around two million plants every year. Hedging is our speciality, but we also offer ornamental and fruit trees, roses, bulbs, soft fruit, and every hedging accessory you could need.
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Planting a hedge has a number of obvious environmental benefits. Less obvious may be the financial advantages of cost and value add...
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An expert list of thorny plants ideal for town and country hedges from a professional grower
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Make a unique Jelly from Country Hedges & Wild PlantsThis recipe uses fruit commonly found in mixed hedges and wild plants (identify…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Homemade Elderflower Cordial RecipeLate May - June is Elderflower time!Elderflower cordial in the shops is expensive and can be a bit sickly…
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Garden Plants
Photinia Red Robin makes a really photogenic hedge plant, with blazing red young leaves that can be persuaded to reappear all summer…
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A good hedge is an invaluable addition to any garden. It delineates and disguises boundaries, providing privacy for humans and habitats for…
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Gardening
Modern buildings and roads tend to create stark boundaries: all structure with no life Well-thought-out planting will soften these hard lines and…
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Roses
Rose hips are mostly an ornamental second display from Autumn into Winter, but all rose hips are edible if you want to…
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Gardening
Tiny marvels dispel winter gloom: the uplifting power of nature! As I filled up the bird feeders yesterday, I noticed the intense…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
What is the difference between a cobnut and a filbert? Are they the same thing, with regional variations of nomenclature? Quick Answers…
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Gardening
Most of the damage caused to bareroot plants in cold, freezing conditions is to the delicate roots themselves.The roots are fine, fibrous…
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Trees
One of only 3 conifers native to the United Kingdom (along with Scots pine and juniper), yew is a familiar feature of…
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Habitat Aid is our all-time favourite, award-winning, impact driven, Somerset based business founded in 2008, and their hedge planting video is educationally…
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Hedge laying is pretty important to anyone with an old country hedge: it’s uncommon to see a garden hedge laid, but most…
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At home, we are used to formal evergreen hedges exactly like this yew one: @longleatofficialOur grounds team are hard at work trimming…
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Box Blight refers to two separate fungi that attack Common Box and Dwarf Box.It does not affect Box-Leaf Holly, nor Sweet Box.The…
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How to Slit Plant bareroot whips like Hawthorn in mixed native hedges
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Most mixed native hedges are mainly hawthorn or blackthorn
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This article is primarily about preparing soil before planting trees (ornamental or fruiting), hedging, roses, and other shrubs.It won’t consider vegetable beds,…
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Gardening
Compare Slit Planting VS Trench Planting Slit Planting Used for bareroot hedging & trees under 80cm Mainly for country hedges & forestry…
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Trees
Laurus nobilis, Sweet Bay or Bay Laurel, is a smart evergreen tree, easy to clip as a hedge, ideal for training into…
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“Which month is best for planting?” is an age-old debate!You can plant trees or hedges at any time of year. There are…
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Moving Evergreens Without Killing ThemThis article is all about moving evergreens like box, yew or pyracantha.Moving plants is not complicated, but by…
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Browse these fast growing evergreens for privacy hedges.If your neighbours are seeing too much for comfort, a mature hedge between you is…
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Yew is the King of Hedges for good reason, but it grows steadily rather than vigorously, so a new Yew hedge takes…
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Double row native hedges are great for wildlife 6 Plants Per Metre required for Countryside Stewardship grants Easily order the right plants…
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The Best Plants for Small HedgesLow Ornamental & Border Hedges Plants Low hedging is roughly shin to waist high, approximately 30cm to…
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Trimming a Hedge Means Two Different ThingsTrimming a Mature Hedge: Cut off practically all the new growth (less than a year old),…
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Pruning Young Hedges While Growing to Mature SizeFormative pruning of a new hedge is handled differently from trimming a mature hedge.Because you…
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The Countryside Stewardship new hedge grant BN11 covers the cost of a native hedge
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Unlike garden hedges, country hedges are typically trimmed every 2-3 years
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Establishing trees & hedges should be kept clear of grass & weeds
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It is true that Cherry Laurel, Prunus laurocerasus, is a trooper and will grow almost anywhere, but that is not the same…
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We say 3 things about Yew - quick growing when young, likes clay on the dry side & is very durable.
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This is a blog post covering the reasons for yew hedge deaths and identifying possible cures and remediation
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Right now is an ideal time to try, when the soil is nice and damp and not-frozen.
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My friend Rachel is a passionate if impatient gardener. Vegetables are really her thing, probably because they germinate and grow before she…
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Here at Ashridge the ‘dormant season’ is anything but – in fact it’s our busiest time of the year. But we’re not…
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Pruning woody plants is a big part of a gardener's life, and winter is when a lot of it gets done -…
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Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) is a tough little evergreen, one of the relatively few hedge plants that is genuinely happy in shade. Once…
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The RHS has produced a dear little video that very sweetly promotes hedges over fences on the basis of their usefullness and…
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Elderflower, Sambucus nigra, inevitably finds its way into a country hedge sooner or later, and it's far from unheard of to add…
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Best Time to Trim Yew Hedges To keep a mature yew hedge tidy with only one cut per year, the ideal time…
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Cut cut cut: that’s what it’s all about being a hedge owner. With a typical hedge plant such as Hawthorn, Beech, or…
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Open rabbit spirals quickly like a pro, smoothly separating rolls out into 5 individual guards Hedge spirals, rabbit guards, are manufactured in…
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A single row with 3 plants per metre, 33cm apart along the row, is standard for a garden hedge. Most garden hedges…
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No, silver birch does not make a good clipped hedge plant. It will serve, but it’s a somewhat sad sightHowever, it is…
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There is only one thing I love more than the RHS, and that is sitting with my old feet up, enjoying a…
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Pyracantha, like almost any broadleaf, hardwood hedge plant, can be hard pruned as needed to reduce its size and keep it tidy.…
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Hedgelaying Services & Grants To hire a hedgelayer to work on your hedge, use the National Hedgelaying Society’s map. To find a…
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An angled cut along the top corner of a hedge lets more light in
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This Lonicera nitida hedge in a local Somerset car park is a prime example of how good this hedge plant looks despite…
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How to Trench Plant a garden hedge like Privet, Beech, L:aurel, or Yew in well dug soil
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