Bare root hedging plants are field grown and lifted without soil. Bare root trees make hardy hedging plants. Bare root hedges are the most cost - efficient and environmentally friendly hedging option to choose.
Beech hedging plants are popular in gardens and landscapes. At our Cheshire plant nursery we grow Green Beech Hedging and Purple Beech Hedges. Fully hardy and fast growing Beech is great hedge choice.
Box Hedging also known as Buxus Hedging is a classic feature in gardens, particularly formal gardens and for edging pathways. All our box varieties are fully hardy, evergreen and perfect for a low maintenance hedge.
We offer a wide variety of plants, from colourful Hebes to hardy perennials. We also carry a selection of low growing smaller shrubs such as Lonicera to help you create the perfect landscape.
Cherry Laurel Prunus laurocerasus, is one of our best selling hedging plants. Common or Cherry Laurel has rounded evergreen foliage with large glossy green leaves. Cherry Laurel Hedging is perfect for creating privacy, structure and as a backdrop to other plants.
Conifer Hedging is ideal for adding colour and shape to your garden. Conifer Hedging provides year round interest and privacy screening. Our wide range includes Taxus Yew conifers, Leylandii, Thuja Western Red Cedar, and Chamaecyparis.
Dogwood Red and Yellow Stemmed Cornus Alba, provides fantastic colour in winter and bright autumnal leaves. During summer, they have vibrant green leaves and flowers that turn into berries in autumn. Dogwood hedges grow up to around two metres tall offering dense coverage.
Elaeagnus Ebbingei is a beautiful evergreen hedging plant. Elaeagnus have vibrant grey leaves which have a silver underside. Elaeagnus hedging produces small fragrant white flowers during the Autumn months. These shrubs make great hedging plants with evergreen foliage that provide year round cover and privacy.
Euonymus plants are ideal for those looking for a low maintenance hedge. Their structured nature makes them extremely popular hedging for pathways and garden edges. We grow a range of Euonymus hedging plants including Euonymus Fortuneii, Euonymus Japonicus, and Euonymus Fortuneii Emerald Gaiety.
Evergreen hedges are grown for year round privacy, creating a barrier to noise and pollution and make excellent windbreaks providing habitat to wildlife. Evergreen hedging is a natural way of providing a privacy screen for your garden and are less likely to get damaged in windy weather than a fence or wall.
Griselinia littoralis hedging plants, also known as New Zealand Privet or New Zealand Broadleaf, is an increasingly popular evergreen hedge plant choice. Griselinia has a naturally upright and dense growth form, making it ideally suited as a hedge. Griselinia hedges have vibrant glossy oval leaves and produce yellow flowers in spring.
Crataegus monogyna or common Hawthorn, also known as Quickthorn hedging, is a classic English hedgerow native plant. Hawthorn hedges offer vibrant spring flowers and edible berries which are loved by wildlife. Hawthorn Hedging can be used as security hedge. Hawthorn also creates an excellent windbreak hedge.
Holly or Ilex Aquifolium is native evergreen hedging plant common at Christmas time. Holly has vibrant spiny foliage and bright red berries. A traditional hedging plant that is very popular in Cheshire countryside due to its dense impenetrable nature. Ilex Aquifolium hedging features white flowers and red berries on female plants.
Hornbeam hedging or Carpinus Betulus or European hornbeam hedges) is a very popular hedging plant that is easy to grow. As a native hedge plant, hornbeam hedges are similar to Beech Fagus plants. Hornbeam features green leaves that emerge in spring, becoming a darker green throughout summer.
Laurel hedging plants are one of our bestselling evergreen hedges. Characterised by dense vibrant bright green leaves. Laurel hedges produce a mass of white flowers in summer. Laurel hedging plants develop non-edible red berries. Laurel hedging is easy to grow, creates instant privacy and year round structure.
Lavender Hedging features bright flowers and fragrant scent, Lavender hedging is very popular for low hedges and extremely beneficial for pollinators, particularly bees and butterflies. We grow White Lavender, English Purple Lavender and French Lavender.
Green Leylandii or Cupressocyparis Leylandii is a popular very fast-growing conifer. Leylandii hedges grow extremely dense and are ideal when trimmed correctly. Leylandii forms excellent windbreak hedging, reduces noise pollution, creates privacy and adds security to boundaries.
Lonicera is a member of the honeysuckle family. An great low growing hedge alternative to box hedging. Lonicera is an evergreen dense shrub. We grow Lonicera nitida or Box Honeysuckle, nitida can be trimmed into topiary shapes as a disease resistant substitute to Box hedging plants.
Photinia hedging forms a bushy dense colourful evergreen hedge with young red growth on stems.. Photinia Red Robin are one of our most popular evergreen hedging plants. Photinias can be grown as individual shrubs in plant borders and these red-leaved evergreen hedging plants are great for bringing height, structure and privacy to your garden year round.
Portuguese Laurel Hedging or Prunus Lusitanica is a smaller, darker leaved variety of laurel with scented white flowers in summer followed by dark red fruit. Tolerant of full sun or dense shade, Portuguese Laurel creates privacy and structure. Our ‘Angustifolia’ variety has has smaller, neater leaves and is the most suitable Portuguese Laurel variety for a formal evergreen hedge.
Common Privet hedging plants, Green Privet or Ligustrum ovalifolium hedging are characterised by their oval-shaped leaves that are dark green. Green Privet hedges are a semi-evergreen hedging shrub and develop white flowers during summer which are loved by pollinators. Privet Hedging provides privacy and can be used as a formal hedge, ideal in urban gardens.
Pyracantha also known as Firethorn hedging is an ideal evergreen security hedge due to its thorny nature. Pyracantha Hedges have red, yellow and orange fruits during autumn and white flowers during spring. The dense nature of Pyracantha Hedges provides habitat for wildlife and the berries provide a valuable food source for birds.
Rose plants form a classic vibrant flowering hedge. Roses feature masses of flowers during summer, followed by hips in autumn, providing food for wildlife. Rose hedges create add fragrance to your garden whilst also forming a security hedge boundary against intruders. We grow a wide variety of Roses each with a unique trait.
Thuja hedging plants also known as Western Red Cedar hedging, Northern White Cedar or Arborvitae are a popular choice for evergreen conifer hedging. Thuja hedges are perfect for screening exposed areas, providing shelter and privacy. Thuja hedging is very easy to grow in sun or full shade. Thuja can be trimmed to form topiary borders and formal hedges.
English Yew hedges also known as common Yew hedges or Taxus Baccata, are a dense, evergreen hedge. It is a classic option for gardens, their ability to regrow quickly from cut branches makes English Yew a great alternative to Leylandii Hedging for dense evergreen hedge structure. Taxus baccata is also perfect for creating topiary and forms an excellent boundary hedge for gardens.
Mixed native hedges are ideal for wildlife and enhancing biodiversity. Native hedging consists of a mixture of different species, such as Hawthorn, Holly and Hornbeam.
Our native hedging helps mark boundaries between gardens, fields and can be used for woodland planting. For horse friendly hedging plants we recommend Hawthorn, which is suitable for all soil types in full sun or partial shade. To protect your new hedge consider our spiral tree guards.
Our low growing hedges create a neat and tidy border that is low maintenance.
Whether defining a border, edging a pathway or driveway, low-growing hedges offer provide an easy solution that look appealing and offer year round colour.
For our box alternatives we recommend Berberis Hedging, Euonymus Hedging, Hebes, Lavender, Lonicera, Rosemary, and Yew Taxus.