Product Description
Supplied Size: 60-90cm, 2-3′ bare-root transplant.
Foliage: Dark-green and glossy, deciduous but the leaves are retained on the plant
Habit: Bushy and Dense
Position: Full sun to Shade.
Soil Type: Hornbeam hedging will grow well in any soil type, well drained to very dry.
Hornbeam is a much under used species for hedging, it is reasonably quick growing and best suited to making larger hedges of 6’+. Hornbeam hedging has many of the attributes of beech as it retains it’s leaves over the winter, unlike beech it will also tolerate wetter ground conditions and shade.
As with beech it only requires early summer and Autumn maintenance. Plant in the winter as bare root, 3 per metre.
