{"id":611975823686,"date":"2025-11-13T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/uncategorized\/whips-tree-hedge\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:58:05","slug":"whips-tree-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/trees\/whips-tree-hedge\/","title":{"rendered":"Bareroot Tree or Hedge Whips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/garden-trees-big-standards\">tree<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/hedging-plants\">hedge whip<\/a> is the same thing: a young, usually unbranched tree under 1 metre tall, delivered bareroot in between November and April.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it becomes a tree or a hedge depends on what you do after planting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t prune it, it will grow into a tree<\/li>\n<li>If you do prune it, it will grow into a hedge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nurseries like us grow fields full of whips from seed, and deliver them to everyone from foresters to farmers to your mate Dave down the road.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foresters and farmers working on large projects will buy the smallest whips, under 60cm tall. They cheaper, of course, and if you have to carry bundles of them up a muddy hill then it makes life so much easier.<\/li>\n<li>Gardeners are more likely to use large whips, and often young trees \/ large hedge plants over 1 metre tall that are too big to call a whip. 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