November 10, 2025 - Decide what ultimate height you need the screen to be and choose plants that will not outgrow the space or take too long to reach the required height · Avoid being tempted to plant very large specimens. Establishment is best if you plant shrubs at no taller than 1m (3¼ft), or trees at 1.8m (6ft)

Popular evergreen screening plants include yew and laurel. You could also opt for lime or ornamental fruit trees. Hornbeam and beech are exempt from evergreen planning rules. However they tend to retain their leaves in winter, providing an ...

May 2, 2024 - So there you have it - our top 5 best evergreen screening trees. While the cherry laurel is our favourite, the Japanese privet, holm oak, Italian cypress and magnolia grandiflora are all great options for a range of gardens or privacy needs.

August 26, 2025 - The Italian Cyprus is the best known but you can also get other tree varieties, such as Liquidambar ‘Slender Silhouette’. Multi-stemmed trees – beloved of the garden shows, multi-stem trees fan out with several stems from the base.

For mature screening trees, our favourite full standard trees (trees with 2m clear stem) include Photinia Red Robin Trees, Holm Oak Trees, Holly Full Standard Trees and Magnolia Grandiflora Full Standard. We offer an excellent range of root ball hedging in all sizes, right up to 4 metres and ...

Our evergreen screening plants ensure year-round interest and coverage, providing privacy and beauty in all seasons. Choose from popular species, such as oleaster hedges and beech varieties, to create visual interest.

There are both evergreen and deciduous plants which are ideal for hedging and screening. All hedges provide excellent habitats for wildlife and improve biodiversity. They can also be used as wildlife corridors to link areas together. English Woodlands offers a planting service. If you are interested in this service, please enquire by email: [email protected] ... Acer campestre (UK Grown)-Field Maple, Pack of 10 Cell Grown Plants Bareroot plants Woodland/Hedging In Season Info

August 8, 2021 - Try ‘American Beauty’ a hardy, ... recommended by the expert team at Squires, is a new variety of the popular evergreen Cherry Laurel....

April 18, 2025 - Screening plants differ from hedges in that they are less dense and less formal, allowing glimpses of what is beyond while creating an informal boundary. Some, such as bamboo and grasses, are dynamic, rustling gently in the wind.

The fastest growing and biggest hedging / screening in the world is Leylandii, and some of the smallest and slowest growing ornamental edging is Box. The planting density for your evergreen hedge depends on the purpose and the specific plant you are using, so please take these general spacings as a guideline only - it's really up to you: For a normal garden boundary hedge, plant at 3 plants per metre (every 33cm) in a single row.

If you need to create privacy in ... than a hedge, so are a good choice for smaller gardens and courtyards. Fast growing bamboo and tall grasses give ......

Ornamental grasses, such as Miscanthus sinensis ‘Kleine Silberspinne’ make attractive, fluid screens that are also tactile – it’s impossible not to run your hands through them. Plant in a row for an attractive, hazy screen that changes throughout the seasons and looks particularly good in autumn.

September 18, 2024 - Bamboo plants also lend themselves well to being grown in containers and couldn’t be simpler to cut down to size, making them a portable and highly versatile screening option. ... The first out-and-out hedging option on this list, boxwood is perhaps the most well-known and most widely-used hedge variety in the UK...

February 11, 2025 - Red Robin is very dense and makes an excellent hedging or screening tree, and will respond well to harsh pruning if you'd like it a certain shape. ... The Golden Bamboo Plant provides excellent screening if you're wanting more of an exotic touch ...

Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) is especially good used in this way and I’ve also seen yew and star jasmine (Trachelospermum) work well. Spine-free hollies such as Ilex ‘J. C. van Tol’ would be worth trying too...

July 9, 2024 - Best for: Grow along trellis or wires in a sunny spot or at least a location with partial sun. Buxus sempervirens (Box) is the perfect low-level screening plant that’s ideal for partitioning off areas such as around flowerbeds. As a native to the UK, box grows in a variety of soils and conditions ...

November 17, 2023 - Generally speaking, the best screening plants are evergreen hedging plants. They tend to be fast-growing but not hard to maintain and, most importantly, look good all year round. But they’re not the only option; depending on your situation ...

Thuja Plicata Atrovirens is an extremely useful and popular evergreen with a reasonable growth rate creating very dense cover, able to grow to some size if wanting a plant on its own to block a view. Practical solutions for a much smaller garden could be to train Pyracantha up trellis panels, pleach trees such a Beech or Hornbeam or pollard a colourful variety of willow, not only giving excellent summer screening above a fence or wall, these will add architectural interest.

June 16, 2025 - Charlotte McGrattan of Hillier Nurseries and Garden Centres says, “If you're looking for a plant that can provide privacy, fragrance, and beauty all in one, Trachelospermum jasminoides, also known as star jasmine, is an excellent choice and ...

June 6, 2024 - Bamboo is one of our most popular screening plants and we always have a fresh selection in varying heights to choose from. Visit the nursery and we’ll advise the best bamboo for your situation.