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Flowering Currant hedge

Flowering Currant is a popular choice for hedges and shrub borders, gardeners value the colourful flowers early in the season, they can be teamed up with Spring flowering bulbs or early flowering ground cover plants for a bold splash of colour well before many other plants in the garden get into their stride

This is also an excellent plant for a more informal flowering hedge or screen, if the shrubs are set at 3-5 per metre (further apart if you are patient) an attractive hedge can be grown within a few seasons, our strong potted plants will outperform bare root plants and give the best results. Flowering Currant hedges can be easily maintained at a height of 90-150cm or more.

Flowering Currant is an easy plant to grow, they are content in all types of well drained soil inconditions from full sun to moderate shade, once established they are a drought tolerant shrub. Hedges are best trimmed immediatly after flowering, although they need little maintenance, solitary shrubs should also be prined after flowering to keep a good shape and remove any congested or dead branches.

How to grow Flowering Currant

Position: Full sun, partial shade, moderate shade.

Foliage: Deciduous shrub, leaves drop from the plant in Autumn and fresh new ones emerge in Spring.

Soil and site: Any average well drained soil.

Flowering time: April and May

Growth rate: slow/moderate

Ultimate height and spread: 180cm high x 150cm wide.

Hardiness: Fully hardy.

Aftercare: Water regularly after planting and for the first season. Trim hedges and shrubs in Spring after flowering.

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.