Cornus Sanguinea Hedging

Cornus sanguinea is the native British dogwood. It is a large deciduous shrub with red/green stems in spring, white flowers in summer and black fruit in September and October. It is a great country hedge plant and is a classic component of mixed native hedges up to about 3-4 metres high. Cornus sanguinea is a bit too untidy to make it a good specimen shrub but it can be allowed to grow freely as wildlife cover in the wet sites it loves. For other dogwood bark colours, see our selection of dogwood varieties for sale.

Cornus sanguinea hedge plants are only delivered bareroot, during winter (Nov-March).

Choosing a size: When you are ordering dogwood plants for a hedge, we generally recommend that you use plants that are graded at 40/60cms or 60/80cms. They are cheaper than large plants, easier to handle and they will establish well in poor conditions. Use the larger, 90/120cms high plants if you want a tall hedge quickly, or for gaps in established hedges. All our plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground when planted

Spacing a Cornus sanguinea hedge:

Plant Cornus sanguinea in mixed hedges 33cms apart.

History & uses of Common Dogwood:

The name Dogwood comes from the Saxon Dagwood or "skewer-wood". The stems of Common Dogwood are very straight, can be sharpened easily and are ideal as skewers for your homemade barbeques during those long hot English summers.

Growing Cornus sanguinea plants:
Cornus sanguinea will grow well in any soil, but it needs at least half a day of full sun. It loves water-logged soil and will tolerate chalk.
If your site is dry, its best to dig in lots of manure to help your plants establish deep roots.

Prepare your site before planting:
Hedge plants like Cornus sanguinea are very tough. The only essential preparation is to kill the weeds in a strip a metre wide along the planting site: improving the soil should not be necessary. If your soil is exceptionally poor and dry, then digging in some well-rotted manure and/or compost is worthwhile.

Watch our video on how to plant a garden hedge for full details. The plants in this video are delivered pot-grown, but planting out bareroot stock is essentially the same.
Remember to water establishing plants during dry weather for at least a year after planting.

Hedge Planting Accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer. We sell hedge planting packs with sheets of mulch fabric and pegs to hold it down which help suppress competing weeds. If you are planting in an area with rabbit and/or deer, you will need to use a plastic spiral guard for each plant, supported by a bamboo cane.
We always recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of new hedging plants, trees and shrubs.

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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £6.50 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

Misc	Shrub, Wildlife Value
Shade	Partial Shade
Soil	Acidic, Wet
Type	Hedging, Native
Also Good	Autumn Colour

	Buy 10 or more bareroot plants and save

SIZES	1-9	10-49	50-249	250-999	1000+
40/60 cm	Stock = 116 £1.74	Stock = 116 £0.84	Stock = 116 £0.78	Stock = 116 £0.66	Stock = 116 £0.48
60/80 cm	Stock = 640 £2.04	Stock = 640 £1.08	Stock = 640 £0.96	Stock = 640 £0.84	Stock = 640 £0.60
90/120 cm	Stock = 456 £3.72	Stock = 456 £2.04	Stock = 456 £1.86	Stock = 456 £1.56	Stock = 456 £1.08
	Prices include VAT

Due to unprecedented demand over the past 7 days we will not be able to deliver any orders placed THIS WEEK until after Easter Monday, 14th April.

PLEASE BEAR WITH US AS WE MANAGE CURRENT ORDERS IN THESE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES.

Cornus sanguinea - Bareroot Dogwood Hedging