Ribes Sanguineum King Edward VII Hedging

Ribes King Edward VII, is a pretty flowering shrub that makes a good informal hedging plant. It will grow on any soil with decent drainage.
Ribes King Edward VII is good for hedges up to about 2-3 metres high.
Although this shrub will produce edible fruit, if you want to harvest crops of delicious currants, we recommend our varieties of red, white or blackcurrant plants.

Ribes King Edward VII hedge plants are delivered bareroot during winter (Nov-March) and pot-grown year round.
Bareroot bushes are cheaper than pot grown plants. Pot grown plants are available in the largest sizes.

See our selection of hedge shrub plants or view our full range of hedging.

Choosing a size:
When you are ordering Ribes King Edward VII plants for a hedge, we generally recommend that you use the smaller, bareroot plants. They are cheaper than the larger, pot-grown plants, easier to handle and they will establish well in poor conditions.
Use the bigger, pot-grown plants if you want a taller hedge quickly or for instant impact as a specimen shrub.
All our hedge plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots or pots aren't measured).

Spacing a Ribes King Edward VII hedge:
Plant Ribes King Edward VII hedging at 3 plants per metre, 33cms apart.

General description of Ribes King Edward VII plants:
This ornamental currant is an elegant shrub carrying strongly scented dark pink, almost purple, flowers in April and dark berries in summer. These are edible, but they don't taste as good as a proper fruiting currant.
This is an excellent plant for difficult positions as it grows in just about any soil. It can be used as a specimen shrub or an informal single species hedge. For a secure hedge, we advise interplanting it with a tough, thorny plant like hawthorn or blackthorn.

History & uses of Ribes sanguineum King Edward VII:
This North American species has been growing wild in Britain since the first half of the 1800's. This variety was bred during the reign of Queen Victoria, but she died before it was released and it was named after the new king.

Growing Ribes King Edward VII plants:
Ribes King Edward VII will grow well in pretty much any reasonably fertile, well drained soil. It needs full sun to grow well and produce lots of flowers, but it is fully hardy and will grow close to the sea as long as the soil isn't too thin and sandy.

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	Edible Fruit / Nuts, Shrub, Wildlife Value
Shade	Partial Shade
Area	Coastal Areas
Type	Hedging
Also Good	Fragrant

	NUMBER OF PLANTS Inc. VAT
SIZES	1-9	10-49	50-249	250-999	1000+
60/80 cm	Plenty of Stock£3.48	Plenty of Stock£2.58	Plenty of Stock£2.04	Plenty of Stock£1.86	Plenty of Stock£1.62

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Ribes Sanguineum King Edward VII Hedging