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Hedging - for Coastal sites
Coastal gardens need shelter. This selection of tough hedging plants can withstand wind and salt spray and many have lovely flowers.
Bareroot hedging | mid-November to March
Bareroot hedging is only available while the plants are dormant from mid-November to March. You can learn more about the differences between bareroot and potted plants and about planting a bareroot hedge in our advice section.
Potted hedging | all year round
Potted hedging is available all year, but the best selection, and the best time to plant, is in late spring (April to May) and early autumn (September to October).
Cotoneaster franchetii

Cotoneaster franchetii
€8.50
Franchet's Cotoneaster This semi-evergreen Cotoneaster is a good choice for a tough site. It has an elegant arching habit, grows fast and clips well. Cotoneaster franchetii produces small white to light pink flowers around early June and has a lovely orange berry in the Autumn. It will take wind, some shade and a good bit of coastal exposure, gr...
Cotoneaster lacteus

Cotoneaster lacteus
€8.00
Late Cotoneaster A striking, late-berrying shrub for the garden, Cotoneaster lacteus is a large, evergreen, flowering shrub, which can also be grown as a hedge or on banks and slopes. The deep green, ovate leaves, 2 ¼”/6cm long, have downy white hairs on the underside. Small, single, white flowers appear in summer, and are perfect for pollinator...
Elaeagnus x ebbingei Compacta

Elaeagnus x ebbingei Compacta
€8.50
Elaeagnus x ebbingei Compacta An excellent variety for hedging, Elaeagnus x ebbingei Compacta is a fast-growing, evergreen shrub with a dense, bushy habit. Unlike Elaeagnus x ebbingei, this variety is well behaved and more compact shrub making it easier to maintain into a tidy hedge. It also has more prominent silvery leaves when they emerge, as...
Griselinia littoralis

Griselinia littoralis
€5.20
Griselinia littoralis A popular hedge here in Ireland and known as Kapuka in New Zealand, where it originates. Griselinia makes a fast, dense and reliable evergreen coastal hedge. It takes clipping extremely well and can be kept very neat if required. Its soft lime green leaves belie is coastal hardiness. It will grow in most soils and will tole...

Griselinia littoralis Variegata
€8.00
Griselinia littoralis Variegata An upright shrub with a dense bushy habit that will brighten up your garden. Rounded leathery leaves are bright green with grey and creamy-white markings. Inconspicuous yellow-green flowers in late spring. can be clipped into a colourful, evergreen hedge. Suitable for coastal planting or sheltered inland positions...
Ilex aquifolium - Holly

Ilex aquifolium - Holly
€8.00
Ilex aquifolium - Holly A slow-growing native evergreen tree, well known for its spiky leaves and red berries. Holly is tough, robust enough to handle the harshest of environments, from dark valleys to extreme coastal locations - though it thrives best with the protection of other trees around it. It is a very important species for insects and b...
Olearia traversii

Olearia traversii
€7.00
Daisy Bush A large, bushy evergreen shrub with grey-silver foliage. It is many a coastal dwelling that is protected by this great seaside hedge plant. Olearia traversii is a front line coastal hedge and is a common sight on the wild Atlantic way. It is fast growing and reliable and takes clipping well. Very salt tolerant, Olearia traversii is ev...
Olearia x haastii

Olearia x haastii
€10.00
Daisy Bush Dense, bushy evergreen shrub with glossy greyish-green leaves that are white-felted underneath. Daisy-like, white, yellow-centred flowers appear in July & August.One of the best choices for a low seaside hedge. Olearia x hastii has small leaves that clip extremely well, its moderate growth rate makes it easy to maintain and even i...
Pyracantha coccinea Red Column

Pyracantha coccinea Red Column
€10.00
Pyracantha coccinea Red Column - Firethorn Red Column is an upright form of Pyracantha. This is a tough dense prickly shrub that will readily train up a wall or trellis and can also make an impenetrable hedge. It bears white blossom in summer and generous quantities of red berries in Autumn and into Winter. Site: Tolerates exposureSoil: Any well...

Pyracantha coccinea Red Cushion
€3.00
Pyracantha Red Cushion A compact shrub, ideal for the smaller garden, Pyracantha coccinea Red Cushion Is a small to medium-sized evergreen shrub with a rounded, mound-forming habit and thorny branches. The small, pointed leaves are deep green. Thick clusters of single, white flowers appear in spring on the previous year’s growth, and are perfect...
Pyracantha Golden Charmer

Pyracantha Golden Charmer
€12.50
Pyracantha Golden Charmer - Firethorn Pyracantha has been a favourite plant for a long time because it presents a low-maintenance plant that can grow almost anywhere. This variety has glossy green foliage and small white flowers that are followed by yellow berries that darken as they age. Pyracantha Golden Charmer is an easy plant to train up a ...
Pyracantha Orange Glow

Pyracantha Orange Glow
€12.50
Pyracantha Orange Glow - Firethorn Orange Glow is a vigorous orange-berried form of Pyracantha with a more erect habit than other varieties. These tough prickly shrubs are easy to grow and train readily up a wall or other support and also make a good dense hedge. The white flowers are borne in sprays in summer and the orange berries that follow...
Pyracantha Soleil d'Or

Pyracantha Soleil d'Or
€10.00
Pyracantha Soleil d'Or - Yellow Firethorn This is a yellow-berried form of Pyracantha. Pyracantha Soleil d’Or is an easy plant to train up a wall or other support and also makes a good dense hedge. The white flowers are borne in sprays in summer and the berries provide a bright display of yellow as well as food for birds in the winter. Pyracant...
Berberis darwinii

Berberis darwinii
€3.50
Darwin’s Barberry A large growing, dense evergreen shrub that makes an excellent backdrop to other shrubs but also works very well as a tough flowering hedge. The shiny, small, holly-like leaves of Berberis Darwinii are smothered in orange-yellow bell-shaped flowers in Spring & early Summer and are followed by edible purple berries in Autumn...
Berberis darwinii Compacta

Berberis darwinii Compacta
€10.00
Darwin’s Barberry Compact Form Attractive all year, Berberis darwinii Compacta is an evergreen, dwarf shrub with spiny stems and a dense habit, ideal for making a low hedge which will make burglars and livestock think twice about invading your garden. The leaves look like tiny holly leaves, emerging bronze and turning deep green as they mature. ...
Berberis darwinii Nana

Berberis darwinii Nana
€12.00
Dwarf Darwin’s Barberry A low growing, dense evergreen shrub that makes excellent groundcover or a tough low growing flowering hedge. The shiny, small, holly-like leaves of Berberis darwinii Nana are smothered in orange-yellow bell-shaped flowers in Spring and early Summer and are followed by edible purple berries in Autumn. A great low growing ...
Berberis julianae

Berberis julianae
€3.50
Berberis julianae - Barberry A robust evergreen shrub with a dense, bushy, upright habit. Berberis julianae has glossy, spiny-edged, deep green leaves that are pale green underneath and the shrub is covered in large sharp thorns. Clusters of yellow or orange flowers in late spring are followed by blue-black berries. This is the ultimate plant fo...
Cotoneaster dielsianus

Cotoneaster dielsianus
€5.00
Diel's cotoneaster An elegant deciduous shrub with greyish foliage and slender arching branches with dark green oval leaves. Small white or pink flowers are followed by glossy red fruits. A very tough and handsome plant that can take poor soil, pollution & salt. Makes an attractive informal hedge & good foliage colour in a mixed hedge. ...
Cotoneaster simonsii

Cotoneaster simonsii
€3.00
Himalayan Cotoneaster A vigorous, erect shrub with shiny semi-evergreen foliage, commonly used for hedges and commercial planting as it is such a tough plant. Pinky white flowers in Summer are very attractive to bees and are followed by large red berries that stay on the bush for a long time and are loved by birds. Site: Tolerates coastal exposu...

Crataegus monogyna - Hawthorn
€1.00
Hawthorn - ‘Sceach gheal’ Our most common hedgerow species. Hawthorn, Whitethorn, or ‘Sceach gheal’ in Irish, it goes under many names and is one of our most important native hedgerow species. It makes a fantastic neat deciduous hedge as it clips well but can also be left to grow. Crataegus monogyna is easily recognisable in the month of May whe...