Cotoneaster Horizontalis Hedging

Cotoneaster horizontalis is an attractive, low growing ground cover shrub. It's a bit too short to make a proper hedge, but it can be grown as a dense mound up to waist height. Cotoneaster horizontalis is also perfect for growing along the bottom walls or as cover for verges and banks, this pretty shrub looks great late in the year when its lovely autumn foliage contrasts with its fruit, which it often carries well into the New Year. It is shade tolerant and will grow well underneath taller trees.

Browse all of our other varieties of Cotoneaster shrubs & trees. Alternatively, view our selection of groundcover plants or see our full range of hedging options.

Cotoneaster horizontalis hedge plants are delivered bareroot during winter (Nov-Apr). All our hedge plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots or pots aren't measured).

History & uses of Cotoneaster horizontalis:

This Chinese plant was brought to Europe in the 1870's by a French missionary. It has won an RHS award of garden merit.

Growing Cotoneaster horizontalis plants:
Cotoneaster is happy in most soils, including chalk, and it tolerates shade. It likes a heavy clay soil, as long as it is not prone to waterlogging in winter. It will grow near to the coast, as long as the soil is fertile.

Prepare your site before planting:
It is good to dig over the area where you plant a hedge several months in advance, especially if the soil is poor. Destroy the weeds first: nettles, brambles and ground elder are tough and a glyphosate based weed-killer is the best way to remove them. Then dig the soil over; remove rocks, roots and other rubbish. Mix in well rotted compost or manure down to the depth of about 2 spades. If your soil is rich, you don't have to dig it over, but killing all the weeds is still necessary.

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.
You can buy a hedge planting pack with sheets of mulch fabric and pegs to hold it down.
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.
If your soil quality is poor, we recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of new trees and shrubs.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser and Growmore.

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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
Area	Coastal Areas, Exposed Windy Areas
Soil	Alkaline/Chalky
Also Good	Autumn Colour, Berries

	NUMBER OF PLANTS
SIZES	1-9	10-49	50-249	250-999	1000+
15/25 cm Bareroot	Out of Stock £2.69	Out of Stock £1.79	Out of Stock £1.55	Out of Stock £1.35	Out of Stock £1.15

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Cotoneaster Horizontalis Hedging