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Fast growing hedges Quick growing hedges are typically planted to mark out your property boundary or perhaps you would like to form a fast-growing privacy hedge to stop prying neighbours looking into your garden. Hedges can also help to reduce road traffic noise as well as shelter your garden and property from prevailing winds. Evergreen hedging is usually better for achieving these results and such plants include leylandii conifers and common laurel as they form thick, dense…

Berberis Pruning Berberis is also commonly known as the Barberry plant and with over 500 different species it is found in nearly every country around the world. It can be seen to be used in many different ways, from forming both formal and informal hedges to border shrubs. This prickly shrub is available as both an evergreen and a deciduous shrub. The two types should be pruned in different ways. Their foliage colours range from the dark…

Leylandii – Cupressocyparis Without a doubt, the most popular hedging plant available in the UK with over 55 million already planted in hedgerows and a staggering 300,000 trees sold every year. They are known for their fast growing habit and make suitable trees for forming a hedge or screening. They can also be grown as an individual conifer where space allows (they need a lot of space) and the evergreen foliage and conical shape makes them very attractive, large compact…