Hedge Plants
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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Hedge Plants
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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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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Hedge Plants
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 Plants
How to Slit Plant bareroot whips like Hawthorn in mixed native hedges
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Hedge Plants
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
Why Clay Soil is Special Most soils are aquiferous: water can flow through them quite freely. When you observe a puddle on…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Planting Blackberries Blackberry bushes tolerate most growing conditions found in the UK, and benefit greatly from anything to grow on for support,…
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Roses
Rose bushes are British gardeners’ favourite plant. In this complete guide to planting rose bushes, find out the best conditions for roses,…
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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
Planting with a stake is optional but highly recommended.
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Hedge Plants
“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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Trees
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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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Cordons are compact wire trained fruit trees, usually apple or pear
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Fruit Tree PlantingWatch our step-by-step video showing you how to plant bush or half-standard sized fruit tree with a small 120cm tree…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Gardening
What Does Mulch Do?Mulch covers the soil around a plant in order to: Keep the sun off Trap moisture while allowing water…
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Hedge Plants
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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Hedge Plants
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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Gardening
You can't plant in frozen soil, and bare roots should not be moved when frozen anyway
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Gardening
Gardening
The best way to store bareroot plants is also usually too much work
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Hedge Plants
Hedge Plants
Establishing trees & hedges should be kept clear of grass & weeds
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Trees
Picking on Huw Richards Inspires Us to Make Better Tree Planting VideosAt Ashridge, we feel a bit responsible for how well people…
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Gardening
A P9 pot is 9cm wide at the top, containing about half a litre of soilIt would be clearer if P9s were…
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Garden Plants
Most people plant their Clematis vines a little deep, the British Clematis Society says: “Ensure that the surface of the root ball…
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Gardening
After you plant a potted plant like Lavender out in your garden or a larger container, the top of the potting soil…
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Garden Plants
When is the Best Time to Plant Perennials UK? Mid-Spring and early Autumn are best. Summer is fine, especially in the shade.…
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Hedge Plants
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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Hedge Plants
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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Hedge Plants
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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Hedge Plants
How to Trench Plant a garden hedge like Privet, Beech, L:aurel, or Yew in well dug soil
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