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Yew - Taxus baccata |
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dark green leaves on horizontal branches and
fleshy, cup-shaped, bright-red autumn fruits on
female plants. The dark green foliage of this
slow-growing, evergreen conifer provides an
excellent background for shrub and herbaceous
borders. Broadly conical in shape, it's tolerant
to dry shade, chalky and acid soils and urban
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Oval
Leaf Privet - Ligustrum
ovalifolium |
| Dense
clusters of white flowers in July and August
followed by shiny, spherical, black fruit and
oval, rich-green leaves. This vigorous oval leaf
privet makes an excellent, pollution-tolerant
hedge for an urban or suburban site. Thriving in
sun or shade, the lustrous, dark green foliage
provides an evergreen backdrop for ornamental and
feature plants. |
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Golden Privet -
Ligustrum Ovalifolium Aureum |
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Privet is a fast growing plant that creates a dense
hedge with medium sized leaves and clusters of
creamy-white flowers in July that are attractive to
insects. It is also shade tolerant. The glossy foliage
is variegated with bright gold and green, normally
evergreen but may loose leaves in very cold winters. |
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Common
Box - Buxus
sempervirens |
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dense, evergreen screen of small, rounded, lustrous,
dark green leaves. Common box makes a fabulous formal
hedge for a partially shady site. It's an excellent
backdrop for traditional herbaceous borders. For maximum
results plant 30cm (12in) apart in well-prepared,
fertile soil and water regularly until well established. |
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are happy growing in a sunny spot but the combination of
dry soil and full sun may encourage poor growth and leaf
scorching. If you have sandy soil it is best to keep
them in a partially shady spot in the garden. |
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Rugosa
Rose - Rosa rugosa
Rubra |
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excellent, informal, flowering hedge for an open,
sunny site, the leathery, dark-green leaves turn
butter-gold in autumn. Masses
of fragrant, single, yellow-centred, purplish-red
flowers from July to September, followed by
attractive, tomato-shaped, red or orange-red
rose-hips. This vigorous, repeat-flowering species
rose is ideal for wilder areas of the garden. |
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Flowering
Currant - Ribes
sanguineum |
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deciduous, spring-flowering, ornamental shrub with
pendent clusters of dark red, tubular flowers which
smother the bush in April. This popular form of
flowering currant is compact and upright in habit making
it ideal for where border space is limited or for
growing as an informal, flowering hedge. To prevent the
plant from becoming congested in late summer remove any
dead or diseased branches and reduce the flowered shoots
to a strong, lower bud. |
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| Holly
- ilex |
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for security around boundaries this traditional
holly carries bright red berries through the
winter. |
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Photinia
- Photinia Red
Robin |
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popular shrub has brilliant red, glossy young
foliage and clusters of small, white flowers in
mid- and late spring, sometimes followed by
spherical red fruit. A compact and colourful
variety it makes a fabulous informal hedge for a
sunny site. In frost-prone areas train as a wall
shrub against a south or west facing wall. |
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Beech - Fagus |
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splendid tree with purple leaves that turn a rich
copper in autumn. As a tree it is only suited to
large gardens or parks, grown as specimens in the
lawn. However, it does make a superb hedge,
retaining the brown leaves through winter and only
loosing them when the new foliage appears in
spring. It will make a lovely formal hedge that
also acts as an excellent windbreak. |
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Copper
Beech |
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Lavender
- Lavandula |
| Dense
spikes of fragrant, pale to deep purple summer
flowers and grey-green foliage. This English
lavender is perfect for a sunny, well-drained
border. The fragrant flower-spikes, highly
attractive to bees and other beneficial insects,
associate well with grey foliage perennials like Stachys
byzantina. |
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Oleaster
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and variegated forms available. This versatile plant is ideal for illuminating dark
areas of the shrub border or for growing as an
informal hedge. One of the toughest evergreen
shrubs, it copes well with dry soil and salt-laden
air. |
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Laurels |
| A
lovely large, evergreen shrub that has dark green
leaves with red stalks. Small white, slightly
fragrant flowers are borne on long racemes in
early summer, and often followed by small, red
fruit which eventually turn dark purple. The fruit
is harmful if eaten. Portugal laurel is an
excellent hedging plant and it can even tolerate
chalky soils. |
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Common
Hawthorn - Crataegus |
| Fragrant
white flowers in May, followed by spherical,
glossy, dark red fruit, and deeply lobed, glossy,
dark green leaves. Hawthorn makes a great specimen
tree or boundary hedge for a range of settings. A
valuable food source and refuge for native birds
and insects, the spiny thorns serve as a deterrent
against potential intruders. |
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Barberry Hedging - Berberis darwinii |
| Clusters
of striking, dark orange flowers in mid- and late
spring, followed by bluish-purple autumn berries,
and spiny, dark green, holly-like leaves. This
upright, evergreen shrub is ideal for growing in a
shrub border or as an informal, flowering hedge. |
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Firethorn - Pyracantha Orange Glow |
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firethorns are all tough, very hardy shrubs which
tolerate a wide range of demanding conditions,
including shaded and exposed positions, and make
dense thorny evergreen growth ideal for
intruder-proof hedging or for training on walls to
display their profuse and brightly coloured
berries. |
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