Much like its counterpart, the Berberis Purple, the Berberis Ottawensis Superba has those gorgeous purple/plum coloured leaves and produces tiny yellow flowers in the spring, followed by berries in summer, and beautiful fiery red leaves come autumn. It’s a deciduous hedge that makes for a great back of border hedging, while also preventing intruders thanks to its thorns and prickly nature. It likes to be pruned after it has finished flowering in the spring, but generally this hedge is a really easy hedge to look after.

Withstanding most soil types and windy sites, this is a great hedge for any placement apart from that of waterlogged sites. The plant can withstand most conditions and soil types other than that of poor drainage.

This hedge can grow up to eight feet and on average grows up to two feet a year, which is double the size of its counterparts, to provide you with a striking ornamental and practical hedge.

The tricky part is when you come to plant your new hedge. Make sure you have good gardening gloves to help protect your hands from the thorns stabbing you, when you plant it.

We would recommend planting these hedges eighteen inches apart to provide you with a thick dense, intruder protective hedge.

For more information on our wide and varied selection of Berberis Ottawensis Superba plants or any of our other hedging plants, contact our specialist team members for more information.

Delivery leadtimes update – April 2025

Spring is our busiest time of year and we are working through orders as fast as we can to get your plants delivered. To give you an accurate idea of when your order will arrive, these are the current leadtimes (delivery is 1-2 days after despatch):

– Orders containing only bare roots – despatch within 5 working days.

– Orders containing only root balls, or root balls and bare roots – despatch within 10 working days.

– All orders containing potted plants – despatch within 14 working days.

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 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)

Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)

Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)

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