Plants For Coastal Gardens Seaside and coastlines are often seen as synonymous with a windy and salt ridden climate where only the hardiest plant specimens can survive and the question is often posed to those of us working in the horticultural industry “What plants, shrubs and trees would be suitable? [...]
Planting a New Hedge – or Improving an Existing Hedge? Be bold – there are so many beautiful hedging options now available – hedging doesn’t have to be boring! […]
Do what you can to help our precious wildlife! Here we tell you the best hedges for wildlife that will provide food and shelter to our small mammals and birds while giving your garden a living green backdrop to uplift your spirts and provide a framework for your decorative plants [...]
Why Autumn is the Best Time to Plant Hedges We’ve said goodbye to August and what a wet one it has been, but that has quite some advantages for the gardener. September is the beginning of what we feel is the very best month for planting – autumn is really the [...]
Ilex Crenata Hedging: Given the difficulties many UK gardeners are having with Box Hedging, we would like discuss the merits of an Ilex Crenata Hedge or Japanese Holly Hedging as a superior alternative to box hedge. Ilex Crenata (Japanese Holly) is best known in the UK as the perfect topiary plant. [...]
Evergreen Ilex Crenata Convexa Hedging will form a neat, compact and long lasting hedge relatively quickly and it won’t get Box blight! Ilex Crenata Hedging (Japanese Holly Hedge) is a blight-free shrub that is similar in appearance to Box (Buxus Sempervirens) but is faster growing yet just as easy to [...]
