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Hedging - Flowering
You can have the best of both worlds with a flowering hedge. It will give a riot of blooms in its flowering season while performing the more practical functions of privacy, shelter or dividing the different spaces in your garden.
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).
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...
Forsythia x intermedia Spectabilis
€3.00
Forsythia Spectabilis A long-established hybrid forsythia grown for its cheerful, yellow spring blossom, Forsythia x intermedia Spectabilis is a large, vigorous, fast-growing, deciduous shrub with an open, upright, vase-shaped habit. Masses of pretty, four-petalled, golden-yellow flowers are borne on the bare branches from early March and into A...
Fuchsia magellanica Alba - Pink / White Fuchsia
€3.00
Pink/White Fuchsia This pale pink fuchsia is a less familiar sight than the red fuchsia that covers the south & west coast of Ireland each summer but well worth growing for the attractive, very pale pink flowers that almost appear white from a distance. It and can be pruned hard if required, sprouting again from where it is cut. Fuchsia mage...
Fuchsia Riccartonii - Red Fuchsia
€3.00
Red Fuchsia A familiar sight on the highways and byways of West Cork, Fuchsia riccartonii originated in Chile and Argentina but is now naturalised here. It makes a great deciduous hedge, covered with an abundance of its famous, pink & red flowers, which persist long through the Summer. It will take what the Atlantic ocean throws at it and c...
Hypericum x hidcoteense Hidcote
€3.00
Hypericum Hidcote An excellent summer flowering shrub with large (3") bright yellow flowers with orange anthers, making for an attractive low flowering hedge. This is a low-maintenance semi-evergreen shrub with neat oval green leaves which needs little or no regular pruning- if you do prune, do so in mid to late Spring. Hypericum Hidcote holds t...
Ribes sanguineum
Ribes sanguineum
€3.00
Flowering Currant A medium-sized deciduous shrub, Ribes sanguineum has toothed, maple-shaped leaves. From late February until April, the stunningly scented, somewhat pendulous pink-red flowers are a good early food source for bees. Small black berries appear in Autumn. Flowering currant is ideal in mixed shrub beds; also very common in mixed inf...
Rosa Fru Dagmar Hastrup - Rugosa Rose
€12.00
Rose Fru Dagmar Hastrup - Rugosa Rose A charming, repeat-flowering rugosa rose bred in Denmark, Rosa Fru Dagmar Hastrup is a medium-sized, vigorous, deciduous shrub rose with a compact, upright, bushy, suckering habit, and very prickly stems. The divided, leathery leaves have narrow leaflets that are very deeply veined and a bright glossy gree...
Rosa Hansa - Rugosa Rose
Rosa Hansa - Rugosa Rose
€15.00
Rose Hansa - Rugosa Rose A richly-coloured, repeat-flowering rugosa rose bred in Holland, Rosa Hansa is a medium-sized, vigorous, deciduous shrub rose with an upright, bushy, suckering habit, and very prickly stems. The divided, leathery leaves have narrow leaflets that are very deeply veined and a bright glossy green. From July to September, ...
Rosa Roseraie de l'Hay - Rugosa Rose
€12.00
Roseraie de l'Hay Rose An old but superb, repeat-flowering rugosa rose, Rosa Roseraie de l'Hay is a medium-sized to large, vigorous, deciduous shrub rose with an upright, bushy habit, and very prickly stems. The fine, glossy, apple-green leaves are very deeply veined, like all rugosa roses, and turn yellow in autumn. From midsummer to autumn, l...
Rosa rugosa - Rugosa Rose
€2.00
Rosa rugosa - Dog Rose This hardy flowering Rose will grow where others will not. Rosa rugosa is considered a frontline coastal plant taking extreme coastal exposure. It makes a spiny deciduous bush with a suckering habit and creates a dense hedge quickly. Rosa rugosa has lovely soft pink, fragrant flowers in Spring that are followed by large ed...
Rosa rugosa Alba - Rugosa Rose
€2.00
Rosa rugosa Alba - White Dog Rose Also known as White Japanese Rose. Attractive white flowers are followed by big red hips, Rosa rugosa Alba is an extremely robust plant that is excellent as an informal hedge by the sea. You will need to cut out any suckers that pop up alongside the hedge to keep it in check. Site: Tolerates coastal exposureSoi...
Spiraea arguta
Spiraea arguta
€4.00
Bridal wreath Very popular woody shrub, great for any garden, It is dense growing, medium sized shrub with arching branches. Spiraea arguta has small clusters of pure white flowers produced along the branches in April and May resembling that of a water fountain Reliable and free flowering. Site: Needs some shelterPosition: Full sun, dappled sh...