Scot Land - Scottish Land Management. Hedge, Hedges, Hedgerows,

Hedge Growing & Planting

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Evergreen Leylandii Hedge Trees

Evergreen leylandii trees are ideal for making a quick effective hedge, windbreak or screen. They are also effective at reducing noise and pollution. Evergreen Leylandii trees will grow at around 2-3ft per year once established but can easily be trimmed into the height and width required.

Green Privet Hedge

This vigorous, oval leaf privet makes a crisp, pollution-tolerant hedge for an urban or suburban site. The small, oval, bright green leaves provide dense cover, and clusters of white flowers appear in July and August followed by shiny, spherical, black fruit.

Thriving in sun or shade, the lustrous, dark green foliage provides an evergreen backdrop for ornamental and feature plants. If grown as a hedge and kept pruned, it is unlikely to flower. Picture shows what your hedge will mature into.

Japanese Quince Flowering Hedge

The Japanese Quince, familiar in our gardens, and formerly known as Pyrus japonica, now usually described as Cydonia japonica, is grown for the sake of its blossoms, which are rich red and are produced during the winter and early spring months. It is a handsome shrub, generally planted in a sheltered spot, often against a dwarf wall or a trellis, the brilliant flowers of the ordinary red variety being produced soon after the New Year.

For the last hundred years it has been the chief spring ornament of British gardens and being quite hardy and easily grown is often seen covering the walls of cottages. A deep, moist loam suits it exactly. The flowers appear before the leaves, and later on in the year, old trees on warm walls will in a dry, hot summer produce a few fruits (Quinces), though it cannot be described as a fruitful tree in this country. They are nearly round and about the size of a tangerine orange, ripening off a dull green colour, very fragrant and as hard as flints. When cut up, they are found to be packed with large dark pips, around which is a broad rim of flesh of a most uninviting character and quite inedible, the flavour being rough and styptic. Picture shows the shrubs in flower and what they will mature into.

Green Beech Hedge Trees

Green Beech is a native plant with superb foliage, medium green leaves turning rich copper in autumn. Shade tolerant. The leaves remain on during the winter with a copper colour. Green Beech trees make an impressive green foliaged hedge. Beech is very hardy. Easy to plant and needs very little after care. Picture shows what your trees will mature into.

Laurel Hedge

Laurels produce a very dense evergreen hedge with large, leather-gloss feel green leaves. Laurel is shade tolerant. A Laurel hedge should be pruned in March, April or August.

Picture above shows how a mature hedge would look.

Copper Beech Hedge Trees

Copper Beech is a native plant with superb foliage, stunning leaves turning rich copper in autumn. A shade tolerant hedge. The leaves remain on during the winter with a copper colour. Copper Beech trees make an impressive foliaged hedge. Beech is very hardy.

Western Red Cedar Hedge Trees

Our Western Red 'Green Giant' is one of the fastest growing of all Conifers. Picture shows what your hedge will mature into.

This very rare hybrid between Western Red Cedar plicata and Thuja Standishii Cedar will put on 2-3 feet of growth per year! Elegant and uniform, Green Giant's conical habit needs no shearing or pruning, and is cloaked in dense, dark, evergreen foliage clear to the ground - a stunning choice for a private screen.

Will enhance property values while screening unsightly areas year-around. This Conifer is tough and will tolerate almost any soil and is resistant to damage from ice and snow.

Our Western Red Cedar are a low maintenance, easy to grow, almost no care needed plant to own.

Thuja Plicata Atrovirens - Fast Growing Conifers

Picture shows what your trees will mature into.

This is an upright tree, with spreading branches and aromatic dark green foliage throughout the year. An excellent screening and fast growing hedge plant.

Will enhance property values while screening unsightly areas year-round.

This is a tough, easy plant to grow - hedge tree, tolerating almost any soil (including damp) and resistant to damage from ice and snow.

Purple Beech Hedge Trees

Purple beech trees are splendid trees with purple leaves that turn a rich copper in autumn. Purple beech Trees will make a superb hedge, retaining the brown leaves through winter and only loosing them when the new purple foliage appears in spring. It will make a lovely formal hedge that also acts as an excellent windbreak. Picture shows what your hedge will mature into.

Thuja Occidentalis Hedge Trees

Displays bright emerald green foliage. The habit is narrow and compact with vertically held sprays of lush green foliage!

These Emerald Arborvitae are a popular hedging tree for screening views or creating privacy when used in multiples. They stay slim, so they are ideal for use where space is limited. Plant the trees 2 feet apart on centre or stagger them in rows for a more immediate screening. Picture shows what your hedge will mature into.

These trees are well suited to hedging, formal accents and barriers. This emerald green hedging tree cultivar has excellent cold and heat tolerance.

Hornbeam Hedge Trees

Hornbeam is a hardy native plant similar to Beech with mid-green leaves, suitable for heavy wet, damp soil, and areas prone to frost. Your hornbeam will produce green catkins from late spring to autumn, turning to clusters of winged fruit in autumn providing food for wildlife. The trees are also shade tolerant.
Your Hornbeam hedge will retain brown foliage in winter, especially if pruned in late summer. For hedges 3ft (90cm) upwards. Plant 9-18ins (23-45cm) apart or for a denser or stock-proof hedge plant in a staggered double row with 15ins (38cm) between rows and 18ins (45cm) between plants. ).

Hornbeam trees will make an impressive foliaged hedge. Hornbeam is native and is very hardy. The picture shows what your hornbeam will mature into.

Willow Hedge

Fast growing tree or bush. For woods and hedgerows not restricted to wet places. Natural distribution throughout Britain and Ireland. Perfect as a fast growing hedge or for producing your own Bio Fuel.

Bio-fuels are fuels that can be used to replace polluting fuels such as petrol, without damaging the environment. A fuel such as ‘willow’ is a good example. Willow grows very quickly on any soil and it can be harvested like any agricultural crop. Whilst it is growing it absorbs carbon from the atmosphere, reducing the amount of pollution in the atmosphere. When it is burned as a fuel it releases less carbon into the atmosphere than it absorbs whilst growing. This means that it is a ‘green’ fuel. It does not increase the amount of pollution in the atmosphere, in fact during its life cycle it reduces these damaging gases. Picture shows what your willow will mature into.

***WILLOW HEDGES ARE VERY FAST GROWING PLANTS WHICH WILL REACH 15-20FT PLUS IN 3-4 YEARS!***

Oleaster Shrub Hedge

Oleasters are a tough evergreen hedging shrub, with small but highly scented creamy white flowers in autumn followed by small orange fruits in spring. Flowers in Autumn and fruits in Spring. The leaves are dark green with silver coloured undersides which look stunning when they blow in the wind. It is quite fast growing at approx 30-45cm per year. It should be clipped to shape in autumn. Oleaster is an ideal hedging plant for shady areas, dry ground, seaside or open windy sites. Picture shows what your shrubs will mature into.

Japanese Honeysuckle

Japanese honeysuckle have a fantastic fragrant, tubular, red-purple flushed white flowers which appear from April to August, fading to yellow. In summers the flowers are followed by purple-black berries. This long-flowering Japanese honeysuckle is vigorous, full hardy and easy to grow. The pretty, purple-tinted foliage provides all-round cover for a hedge, pergola, arch, boundary wall, wire fence etc. Picture shows what your shrubs will mature into.

Arnold Dark-Red Honeysuckle

Arnold Red Honeysuckle are excellent plants that provide a profuse flower displays and a brilliant show of fruit each year. Dark red blossoms of the Honeysuckle are fragrant and produce bright red berries. This deciduous plant has a neat, compact habit that is excellent for backgrounds, screens, windbreaks or hedges. It prefers full sun but grows well in shade.

It's fast growing and gets 8 to 10 feet tall and wide. Arnold Red makes an excellent foundation plant or can be used as a hedge. It is a low maintenance plant that is able to withstand drought and temperature extremes. This plant has a high tolerance for salt and alkali and has moderate water requirements. Honeysuckles are easy to grow, vigorous, heat-tolerant, and nearly indestructible. The flashy and fragrant flowers will attract birds and butterflies all summer long. Picture shows what your shrubs will mature into.

Cotoneaster

Very vigorous, semi-evergreen Cotoneaster shrubs/trees grow in clusters of small creamy-white flowers in June. These are followed by masses of almost spherical, bright red berries in late autumn. This fabulous autumn display corresponds with the normally deep green leaves taking on a bronze-tint. These are excellent specimen plants for banks, hedges etc. The berries are highly attractive to birds.
Picture shows what your shrubs will mature into.

Lawson's Cypress:

This is perhaps the most famous blue hedging conifer. It is one of the most decorative varieties and keeps its fine colour in winter. Lawson's Cypress can be pruned to any desired height and width. We plant 3 per metre.

Lavender Hedge:

Lavender is a semi-shrub that is popular in the South of France, where the richly scented lavender oil is used in the perfume industry. Lavender can be used in many different ways. It can be planted in rows to form a hedge or used as a border feature. Another suggestion is to combine lavender with rose bushes. This is useful as the lavender plants keep the roses free from aphids. Lavender is also attractive planted in pots or containers. Plant 5 per metre to form a hedge.

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