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Neat Natural Hedge Mix
Neat Natural Hedge Mix
€55.00
Neat Natural Hedge Mix Three varieties that blend well together. This mixed hedge can be kept neat so is also suitable to urban gardens where space may be tight. An unfussy mixed hedge that provides variety and interest. Not available? Choose your own mixed hedge! It can be difficult to keep all of the species in stock that make up our mixed h...
Permaculture Hedge Mix
Permaculture Hedge Mix
€80.00
Permaculture Hedge Mix A deluxe hedge with edible fruits for preserves, wines or just enjoying. This informal mixed hedge is productive and will also greatly encourage wildlife into your garden. This hedge can be trimmed to keep it in check but for best flowers and fruit it should be given some room to grow a bit wild. This hedge mix is made up ...
Philadelphus Belle Etoile
€4.50
Mock Orange Belle Etoile A compact form of the mock orange, Philadelphus Belle Etoile is suitable for the smallest garden. It’s a medium-sized, deciduous shrub with an arching, bushy habit and small, oval, deep green leaves. In early summer the bush is almost smothered in large white flowers with a purple tinge at the throat and golden stamens, ...
Prunus cerasifera
Prunus cerasifera
€12.00
Cherry Plum (Myrobalan) Not a native plant but sometimes found naturalised in Ireland, the Cherry Plum is a shrub or small, bushy tree grown on its own roots, not grafted. The fruit looks like a large, red or yellow cherry with a very thin skin; the flesh is soft and juicy, both sweet and tart, and tasting of plum, with a semi-clinging stone. It...
Prunus cerasiferia Myrobalan - Cherry Plum
€2.00
Cherry Plum (Myrobalan) Not a native plant but sometimes found naturalised in Ireland, the Cherry Plum is a shrub or small, bushy tree grown on its own roots, not grafted. The fruit looks like a large, red or yellow cherry with a very thin skin; the flesh is soft and juicy, both sweet and tart, and tasting of plum, with a semi-clinging stone. I...
Prunus insititia - Bullace
€3.00
Bullace The native species from which the cultivated damsons and bullaces derived, Prunus insititia is a small, sometimes spiny, deciduous tree which can also be planted as part of a fruiting hedge. The bullace tree is upright, rounded and spreading with glossy, dark green oval leaves. Small white flowers appear on the bare branches in early spr...
Prunus padus - Bird Cherry
€1.80
Bird Cherry - (Donnroisc) An small growing native tree that is adaptable to many situations, Prunus padus has striking almond-scented flowers borne on small upright panicles in April. In Autumn it is often laden with small, dark, bitter cherries which are a favourite of all kinds of birds. Like Wild Cherry, the Spring flowers provide an early so...
Prunus spinosa - Blackthorn
€1.20
Blackthorn, Sloe - (Draighean) Grown as a Tree A well known native tree, the strong white flowers appear before the leaves and it is a great herald of Spring in our hedgerows across the country. The timber from blackthorn is dense, burns exceptionally well and with little smoke, it is also used to make shillelagh sticks & In folklore, blackt...
Pyrus communis - Wild Pear
€3.00
Pyrus communis - Wild Pear Thought to be one of the ancestors of domestic pears, Pyrus communis is a small, deciduous tree with a columnar habit, much taller than cultivated, grafted pear-trees. With fissured, sometimes scaly, grey brown bark, and often thorny, it bears glossy, deep green, pointed-oval leaves. In mid-spring, clusters of bright w...
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 canina - Dog Rose
Rosa canina - Dog Rose
€3.00
Rosa canina - Dog Rose The familiar and much-loved dog rose of our hedgerows and woodland edges, Rosa canina is a vigorous, scrambling, suckering, deciduous shrub with arching green stems armed with curved thorns to help it climb. The mid-green leaves are divided into 7 leaflets. The lightly scented, five-petalled flowers, 2-3”/5cm across, come ...
Rosa rubiginosa - Wild Rose
€3.00
Rosa rubiginosa - Sweet Briar An uncommon native plant, this is the rose that Shakespeare called eglantine. Rosa rubiginosa is a big, vigorous, thorny, deciduous shrub with an erect, spreading, bushy habit. The divided, mid-green leaves have rather rounded leaflets with sticky brown glands on the undersurface, which exude the scent of apples, es...
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...
Sambucus nigra - Elder
Sambucus nigra - Elder
€2.50
Native Elder - (Tromán) One of the most well known native trees, Sambucus nigra is an exceptionally good wildlife-supporting species in Ireland and fits into any hedgerow. In Spring you will often hear the tree buzzing with excitement as thousands of insects are seen feeding off of the flowers. And don't be surprised to see people wandering hedg...
Seaside Hedge Mix
Seaside Hedge Mix
€50.00
Seaside Hedge Mix There are a lot of single variety hedges that are suitable for coastal areas, however, if you want something with a bit more seasonal interest and variety, this informal mix of evergreen and deciduous coastal hardy plants will give year round interest. Not available? Choose your own mixed hedge! It can be difficult to keep a...
Viburnum lantana
Viburnum lantana
€4.00
Wayfaring tree Vigorous large deciduous shrub with broad, leathery, greyish-green leaves which are felted underneath. Foliage sometimes turns dark red in autumn. Creamy white, fragrant flowers in early summer, followed by clusters of red berries which ripen to black and usually remain into winter. Loved by all sorts of wildlife; great choice for...
Viburnum opulus - Guelder Rose
€2.00
Guelder Rose (Caorchan) An attractive native shrub often seen in country hedgerows. Viburnum opulus has maple-like leaves and beautiful white lace-cap flowers in the Spring, followed by clusters of translucent red berries in early Autumn. It is a great addition to a wildlife fruiting hedgerow especially. Site: Tolerates some exposureSoil: Any we...