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Forsythia hedging

Forsythia is an excellent choice for informal hedges and flowering screens, where its spectacular spring display can be appreciated to full effect. The vibrant yellow flowers combine particularly well with spring bulbs such as daffodils and tulips, creating a striking seasonal feature long before many other shrubs begin to flower.

For hedging, plants should be set at 3-5 plants per metre depending on the speed and density required. Our strong potted plants establish quickly and provide faster results than bare root stock. Once established, a Forsythia hedge can be maintained at 1-2.5 metres in height, making it suitable for both boundary hedging and decorative garden screening.

Forsythia hedging is remarkably easy to grow and adapts well to most well-drained soils, including clay, loam and sandy sites. It performs best in full sun, where flowering is most prolific, but will also tolerate partial shade. Once established, it is relatively drought tolerant and requires very little maintenance.

Hedges should be trimmed soon after flowering to encourage plenty of new growth that will carry the following year’s flowers. Individual shrubs can also be pruned at this time to maintain a neat shape and remove any old, weak or congested branches. With minimal attention, Forsythia spectabilis will provide many years of reliable spring colour and garden interest.

Potted orders are usually despatched within 3-5 working days and delivery is 1-2 days after we despatch. Pleached tree and tall plant deliveries are booked in for delivery at the earliest possible convenient date.

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 subsidised 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 5-7 working 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)

Location	Order Value	Price
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Up to £300	£9
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Over £300	Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of Wight	All orders	£24

Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)

Location	Order Value	Price
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Up to £500	£50
UK Mainland excluding Highlands	Over £500	Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of Wight	All orders	£90

Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)

Location	Order Value	Price
Mainland England and Wales only	Under £1800	Please call us
Mainland England and Wales only	Over £1800	Free
All other areas	All orders	Not 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.

For pleached tree orders we can often deliver smaller orders of £600 or more (£500 plus VAT) with a contribution towards delivery, so please do call our sales team on 01580 765 600 or take a look at our Delivery Information page.

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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Forsythia Hedging, Forsythia spectabilis

Few shrubs announce the arrival of spring with quite the same impact as Forsythia spectabilis. Smothered in brilliant golden-yellow flowers before the leaves emerge, it makes an outstanding flowering hedge or garden shrub, bringing welcome colour to the landscape at a time when little else is in bloom.

This is a vigorous and easy to grow deciduous shrub, prized for its abundance of bright yellow flowers carried along bare stems in early spring. As the flowering period ends, fresh green foliage appears and provides an attractive backdrop throughout the summer months. With its naturally arching branches and rapid growth rate, Forsythia spectabilis is ideal for gardeners looking for a colourful yet easy-to-grow hedge.

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Potted Hedging

We deliver these plants to you in the pots they are grown in, because there is no root disturbance they can delivered and planted all year round with excellent results.