Alder Italian Hedging

A large fast growing deciduous conical tree the Alnus cordata has yellow brown catkins in late winter. It is an excellent choice for poor soil and wet sites.

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Bare Root Hedging

These are field grown plants, lifted during the dormant season (normally November-April) and delivered ready for planting without any soil on the roots. The most cost-effective way to plant a new hedge.

Alder Italian Bare Root Hedging 4-5ft 125/150cm

  • 2 year old

  • Plant(s) per metre: 3-5
  • Minimum order quantity: 1

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The Alder Italian (Alnus Cordata) is a fast growing deciduous hedge which is often seen as the finer example of the species. Originally from northern Italy, it provides a wonderful medium to large conical bushy tree. Again, like its counterparts, it is excellent at helping to fertilise poor soil, so these hedges/trees are the best variety to plant in dry, poor quality soils. It can even withstand waterlogged and poorly drained soils too.

They produce yellow male catkins before the leaves blossom in spring, with female catkins containing seeds which feed wildlife in the autumn months. It is great for providing a large windbreaker hedge of five feet upwards, to help provide protection for most of the year. A lot of farms and nurseries use it for protection in their outdoor landscapes. It is also often spotted in parkland and along coastal areas, because of its hardiness with regards to withstanding strong wind and poor soil quality. The leaves normally develop in April and can last right up until December. The Alder Italian hedge plant has even won the Award of Garden Merit from the RHS for being a fine, handsome specimen of a tree. This means not only does it look gorgeous in a setting, it is useful too – and has been recognised for this. As well as supplying you with planting and cultural instructions with your order, we’d recommend rootgrow and bonemeal to help give your new plants a helping hand in their new site. We also recommend that you prune your Alder Italian during the months of July and August.

For any further advice or recommendations feel free to contact our dedicated members of staff, who will be happy to help.

Delivery leadtimes update- March/April 2024

We are working at maximum capacity to fulfil all orders as quickly as possible but owing to unprecedented demand some orders will take longer:

– Orders containing only bare root plants – delivery is currently within 5-7 days

– All other orders – delivery is currently within 2-3 weeks

Delivery is free for most orders above our free delivery thresholds, these are displayed above our prices in the product listings and summarized below. If you don’t need that many plants it’s not a problem, you can choose to pay our delivery charge and only order what you need.

Delivery is convenient – no signature is required so you don’t need to wait in, we will leave your parcel in the safe place that you nominate.

Delivery is fast – because we pick orders daily from our own growing beds your plants only travel the small hop to our packing shed before being sent to you, they are usually delivered within 3-7 days.

Delivery is reliable
– we have been selling and delivering Hedging Plants to our customers nationwide since 1992. We have a lot of experience in packing them safely and only use tried and tested delivery partners.

Smaller Plants (Parcel Delivery)

LocationOrder ValuePrice
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsUp to £90£15.00
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsOver £90Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of WightAll orders£24.00

Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)

LocationOrder ValuePrice
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsUp to £420£72.00
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsOver £420Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of WightAll orders£72.00

Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)

LocationOrder ValuePrice
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsUnder £1800Please call us
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsOver £1800Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of WightAll ordersNot available

Exceptions to our delivery charges are Scottish Highland and Isle of Wight delivery areas where we need to charge a little extra to cover the cost of deliveries to these outlying areas. We don’t currently delivery to other offshore addresses including Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

Tall plants over 2.5 metres have to be delivered by our own specialised transport, our delivery area is limited to mainland England and Wales only.

Please note there is a minimum order value of £50 for orders containing smaller plants and £250 for orders containing heavier plants

Complete delivery information can be viewed on our Delivery Information page

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