You can still get bare root hedging from plant nurseries if your quick. At the nursery I go to hawthorn is only about fifty pence a plant. But it is getting late to be putting bare root hedging in.
We planted a bare root native hedge (hawthorn, buckthorn, blackthorn and others) 2 years ago and the advice we were given was, for the first few years, to snip back any long straggly branches, and shorten the leading shoot by about half its length. This is to enable the hedge to bush out at lower levels..We are to do this in winter and to cut just above a pair of new buds.
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Hello Jim and blairs, thanks for adding your advice to this discussion.
Will pass on to my son who intends to use hawthorn / buckthorn hedging at the end of his garden.
Ps. Good luck with the hedging Mrs b
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You can still get bare root hedging from plant nurseries if your quick. At the nursery I go to hawthorn is only about fifty pence a plant. But it is getting late to be putting bare root hedging in.
Thanks, will pass that on - it's a long hedge he's planning to plant up.
We planted a bare root native hedge (hawthorn, buckthorn, blackthorn and others) 2 years ago and the advice we were given was, for the first few years, to snip back any long straggly branches, and shorten the leading shoot by about half its length. This is to enable the hedge to bush out at lower levels..We are to do this in winter and to cut just above a pair of new buds.
Many thanks, c-c, all advice gratefully accepted