The hedging plant specialists

These are field grown plants lifted during the dormant season and the soil shaken off and delivered to you ready for immediate planting. The most popular and economical way to plant a new hedge.

If you are not sure which hedge is best for your garden or most suited to your needs, take a look at our useful plant guides. These are designed to help you make an easy and informed choice from our huge range of hedging species.

Pot grown hedge plants are convenient and easy, they can be planted at any time of year and there is no root disturbance so they generally establish and grow away quickly.

These are older plants grown at extra wide spacing in our fields and lifted with the immediate soil and root system which is wrapped in hessian. Big bushy plants for immediate effect at moderate cost.

Our instant hedging come ready clipped in convenient one metre sections to give immediate landscape impact from the moment they are planted. Browse wide range of species with sizes to suit all budgets.

One of the most desirable traits in a new hedge, evergreens give privacy and structure all year. Browse our massive selection of evergreen hedging species of all sizes from small starter plants through to instant hedging solutions.

Included in our list are some of the finest evergreen hedging species from the very fast growing Green Leylandii hedging to the slower and majestic English Yew as well as excellent screening species including Scots Pine and Norway Spruce.

Take a look at our great range of pre packed hedging mixes to suit all purposes. We are proud to say our mixed native hedging received a Gardening Which? best buy award. We have bare root, pot grown and instant hedging options.

Taxus Baccata is a familiar sight in churchyards and is the epitome of dense evergreen conifer hedging. A shade tolerant plant but requires well drained soil.

A trusty native favourite, Green Beech Fagus Sylvatica has interest all year round with its vibrant green leaf in summer and russet brown in winter. Great for wildlife.

The colourful purple leaved variety of Beech hedging, the new growth is rich purple red and darkens to deep purple, like green beech the foliage turns to russet brown in winter.

These accommodating evergreens are rising stars in hedging plant circles, Griselinia has the kind of upright shape that lends itself as a hedging plant, and they look great all year. (Our current stock of 15 litre pots are Griselinia littoralis 'Green Horizon', a darker green variety with very attractive glossy foliage, all other size options are the apple green Griselinia littoralis)

These evergreen Loniceras have tiny leaves making them ideal for very neat hedges, Nitida varieties make super hedges, pileata is often used as ground cover or much lower hedges.

Cupressocyparis is the familiar very fast growing conifer. Ideal for dense hedges and windbreaks it is superb at filtering noise and pollution.

Farmers know a good hedge when they see one, Crataegus monogyna is the backbone of many rural hedges, the flowers and fruits attract many forms of wildlife.

Given time, Hollies will grow into an impenetrable hedge. We have native green hollies as well as the Golden, Silver and Blue types in many sizes, including some big ones!

One of our best sellers, Hornbeam is easy to establish and thrives where it is too wet for Beech, it also retains its nut brown foliage in winter. Our plants are the best you will find.

A wide selection of seed grown species Roses grown for their more delicate flowers and showy hips, all make great additions to mixed or as single species hedges.

We have a great selection of these fragrant plants suitable for hedges or border planting from the earlier flowering 'French' Lavender, the classic 'English' varieties and the later flowering 'Intermedia' types.

Prunus laurocerasus rotundifolia also known as cherry laurel and is a Hopes Grove Nurseries best seller! The large shiny leaves are dark green on top pale green underneath. If untrimmed will produce fragrant white flowers followed by red berries.

Prunus Lusitanica is a smaller, darker leaved variety of laurel with scented whte flowers in June followed by dark red fruit. Tolerant of full sun, dense shade and shallow chalky soils.

Buxus sempervirens is a slow growing native evergreen shrub or low hedge. Also with its small leaves and dense growth it is an excellent choice for topiary.

A large dense evergreen shrub, the leaves being brilliant red when young fading to glossy dark green with white flowers in spring. A deservedly popular shrub or hedge.

Ligustrum Ovalifolium is a popular versatile semi evergreen widely used for hedging. It is fast growing creating a lovely dense hedge with medium sized dark green leaves.

Also known as Western Red Cedar this large evergreen conifer has aromatic foliage making a wonderful screen or hedge tolerant of shade and shallow chalky and moist soils.

Pyracantha makes a very thorny and impenetrable evergreen hedge, each spring the plants are covered in white blossom that is followed by a profusion of colourful berries.

The rich gold markings on the foliage of this semi evergreen large shrub makes Ligustrum Ovalifolium Aureum a great alternative to green privet for a bit of colour.

Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi are a great aid to establishing your new hedge in double quick time, we also have the correct fertiliser for your hedge whether it is newly planted or already well established.

At Hopes Grove Nurseries we stock all the essential planting accessories you need to help establish new hedging plants of all sizes. Click here to browse our range of practical and low cost accessories.