Product Description
Supplied Size – 10 x 60-90cm, 2-3′ bare-root transplant.
Beech (Fagus sylvatica) makes a superb, dense hedge of 6′ plus and is very cost effective when planted in the winter as bare-root transplants, a quarter of the cost of leylandii.
The leaves begin bright, lime-green in the spring, darkening over the summer through to a deep bronze over the winter. Beech hedging is deciduous but the leaves are retained over the winter so privacy is maintained.
A beech hedging is very low maintenance, give the new growth a light trim in June, but be careful to avoid any nesting birds. This can be followed by a heavy trim for form in September or February.
It is best suited to a well drained to dry situation, it will not do well in water logged soils. Plant as bare root transplants, 3 per running metre.
