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Hedging - Plants for a Mixed Hedge
Mixed hedges provide year round interest as well as encouraging wildlife. The plants below feature in our various (bareroot only) speciality mixed hedges—a best seller over many years.
You can learn more about selecting and planting a mixed hedge in our advice section.
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).
Aronia melanocarpa Galicjanka
€22.00
Chokeberry Galicjanka A highly productive Aronia with abundant edible berries, Aronia melanocarpa Galicjanka Is a substantial, deciduous shrub of average vigour with an upright, bushy, suckering habit. The green, egg-shaped leaves turn deep purple in autumn. Single white flowers appear in May and June and are followed in September and October by...
Cornus alba Siberica
Cornus alba Siberica
€10.00
Siberian Dogwood Another great variety of the red-barked Dogwoods. Cornus alba Siberica produces small flowers in early Summer followed by clusters of white berries and is less vigorous than other red Dogwoods. Good autumn colour. When planted near evergreens in the open, the Winter sun can show off the red stems beautifully. Flowers are good ...
Cornus sericea Flaviramea
Cornus sericea Flaviramea
€12.00
Yellow Stemmed Dogwood A beautiful dogwood, Cornus sericea Flaviramea forms a thicket of yellow-green barked stems. Vigorous erect branches, dark green foliage and small, creamy-white flowers followed by clusters of white berries in the Winter. Excellent red-orange, Autumn foliage colour is a special feature of this dogwood. Hard pruning results...
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...
Deutzia x hybrida Strawberry Field
€12.00
Deutzia x hybrida Strawberry Field A bushy, medium-sized, flowering deciduous shrub. Deutzia x hybrida Strawberry Field has masses of flowers, crimson outside, pale pink within, opening in early Summer. Deutzias benefit from a regular thinning out of old shoots after flowering. Site: Fairly shelteredPosition: Full sunSoil: Moist, well-drained so...
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...
Frangula alnus - Alder Buckthorn
€26.00
Alder Buckthorn One of Ireland's rarest native trees, Alnus Frangula can also be found throughout Europe, northernmost Africa, and western Asia. Alder Buckthorn has dark green leaves that turn yellow in Autumn. The long season of inconspicuous flowers are followed by abundant red berries that mature to black. The bark is dark blackish-brown, wit...
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...
Rhamnus cathartica - Purging Buckthorn
€24.00
Purging buckthorn (Paide bréan) A bushy, deciduous shrub that is native to Ireland, parts of Europe and much of Asia. Rhamnus cathartica has bright green glossy foliage and bears tiny green-white flowers which are very attractive to bees; the flowers are followed by shiny red berries that eventually turn black in the Autumn. It has a suckering n...
Amelanchier canadensis - Service Berry
€3.00
Serviceberry A dense, upright, suckering, deciduous shrub or small tree with a narrow crown, Amelanchier canadensis is grown for its lovely blossom and autumn colour. It bears loose, upright clusters of white, star-shaped flowers in late spring, followed by purplish-black berries, which are edible, although unexciting. The leaves open bronze, t...
Amelanchier lamarckii - Snowy Mespilus
€3.50
Snowy Mespilus A large, upright shrub or small tree with a graceful, open habit, Amelanchier lamarckii is grown for its lovely blossom and autumn colour. It bears loose racemes of starry, white flowers in late spring, followed by red to purplish-black berries, which are edible, if insipid, and attractive to birds. The leaves open bronze, turning...
Amelanchier spicata
Amelanchier spicata
€6.00
Dwarf Serviceberry Please bear with us - we'll be adding a product description soon!
Aronia melanocarpa
Aronia melanocarpa
€3.00
Black Chokeberry Upright, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub with alternate, dark green glossy leaves which turn red in autumn. Heads of star shaped white, sometimes pink-flushed, flowers in late spring followed by drooping clusters of black berries in autumn. The fruit is very astringent, rich in pectin so good for making into jam, berries are best...
Berberis thunbergii Rose Glow
€5.00
Barberry Rose Glow A medium sized deciduous shrub with an upright habit and stiff prickly branches. New shoots are purple, developing mottled silvery pink and rose variegation. Pale yellow flowers appear in May. This is a very attractive berberis and offers good foliage colour throughout the summer amongst other shrubs. Holds the RHS award of ga...
Berberis vulgaris
Berberis vulgaris
€4.00
European Barberry A deciduous prickly shrub with green foliage and pendulous racemes of small yellow flowers in Spring and red berries in Autumn. Berberis vulgaris makes a good barrier hedge. For those interested in fruiting and wildlife hedges. Its edible but rather tart berries are abundant in Autumn, are high in Vitamin C and can be eaten raw...
Chaenomeles japonica
Chaenomeles japonica
€3.00
Flowering Quince A small deciduous thorny shrub, best known for its beautiful Spring flowers. It will fit in in most gardens, where it is guaranteed to brighten any corner on an otherwise dull Spring day. Another feature is its golden yellow crabapple-like fruit in the Autumn. The fruit of Chaenomeles japonica is edible, but hard and astringent-...
Cornus alba Miracle PBR
Cornus alba Miracle PBR
€4.50
Dogwood Miracle A tough, deciduous shrub offering all year interest, Cornus alba Miracle PBR is a medium-sized, vigorous, deciduous shrub with an upright habit. The leaves emerge with a bright pink flush, which fades to a variegated cream and green; in autumn the leaves develop red tints that intensify as the season progresses, often becoming a ...
Cornus mas
Cornus mas
€3.00
Cornelian cherry A large deciduous shrub that produces lots of shiny red berries, this fruit has long been used as a food crop as well as been loved by birds. Cornus mas has soft foliage with small, bright yellow flowers in early Spring that are followed by fleshy, bright red, cherry-like fruits in late Summer. Attractive bark on older plants. ...
Cornus sanguinea
Cornus sanguinea
€3.00
Native Dogwood (Conbhaiscne) This once rare native shrub or small tree is now widely planted due to its ability to grow almost anywhere. Creamy-white flowers in late spring, followed later by small purple-black fruit. Its leaves turn reddish-purple in autumn and hold on to colourful reddish stems throughout the winter. For best stem colour and t...