Evergreen Screening Choices

We have a range of evergreen solutions that offer excellent privacy screening, with their year-round retained foliage. They can serve as windbreaks and even act as a useful security barrier for unwanted visitors.

Evergreen Espalier Screens

Our range of evergreen screening now includes espalier screens. These evergreens are grown on strong, narrow frames using several plants in each trough to create full coverage over the framework, from soil level up. Lightweight, simple and easy to install, they are ideal for flexible screening.

The support of the framework allows the plants to grow tall and wide without needing the depth of an Instant Hedge, making them ideal for planting situations where space or time is at a premium. Whether you want to screen out the garden shed, hide the recycling bins or be imaginative by creating rooms in your garden, these narrow screens offer many options.

Our Best Evergreen Screens

There are many evergreen screen varieties available, each with different foliage, features and attributes. These allow you to create a look to fit your garden design, even if you need privacy most in shady areas. We have a variety of species available, both traditional hedging species and newer varieties too.

All prices are per screen and exclude VAT.

A 20% discount will be applied to all ex-VAT orders of these screens worth a total of £3000 or more.

The discount applies to the value of the screens themselves not to delivery or planting etc.

For more information on evergreen espalier screens, instant hedging, screening or pleached trees, contact the horticultural team. Email trees@pracbrown.co.uk or call 01753 652022 for more information.

In more detail

Cupressocyparis leylandii (Leylandii)

Leylandii is valued for its fast growth habit, sturdy constitution, and dense, evergreen foliage which provides an effective screen. The key for this vigorous grower is regular pruning during the growing season of spring to late summer.

Elaeagnus ebbingei

Highly regarded for its sweet fragrance and tiny bell-shaped white flowers in late summer, it also bears small orange berries in the winter and attractive foliage. Compact with dense growth, it is valuable in coastal locations, as it is salt tolerant.

Photinia ‘Red Robin’

Red Robin’s stand out feature is the vibrant red new shoots in spring, which contrast with the white blossom – unusual in an evergreen.  The bright new leaves change to a deep, glossy green as they mature and are complemented with small round red berries in the summer.

Photinia robusta compacta

This species is more compact than it the ubiquitous Photinia. It has all the leaf colouration of ‘Red Robin’ combined with the compact growth of ‘Compacta’. Forms a very dense shrub with much interest in the spring.

Prunus laurocerasus ‘Novita’

Due to its dense, dark leaves the Novita is commonly planted for screening. It’s leaves emerge a fresh green, which get darker and glossier with age. In spring, they can produce a display of white blossom, which grow on upright racemes.

Pyracantha

With its dense, spiny habit, it makes a perfect screen to use as a security fence to deter intruders. This evergreen boast scented, creamy white flowers in late spring followed by a profusion of orange berries in the autumn.

Trachelospermum jasminoides

This attractive self-twining evergreen climbing shrub has glossy dark green, ovate leaves that often turn a deep red in winter. One of the highlights of this screening plant is the beautiful clusters of white star-shaped flowers in spring, early summer that have a fragrant fresh-sweet scent.

Deciduous screen

In addition to the range of evergreen espalier screens, we also have Liquidambar styraciflua. This American Sweet Gum of the very best trees for autumn colour and one of the last deciduous species to drop its leaves. The foliage emerges bright green in the spring then changing to fabulous red, purple and gold colours throughout the autumn. Keeping this screen trimmed with not lose the beautiful colours. We have a limited supply of 180 x 120cm screens at £408 each.

Contact to us about your requirements for screening or privacy in your garden; we can supply and plant many types of attractive trees in both evergreen and deciduous species.

Evergreen Pleached Trees

We have just taken delivery of the following evergreen pleached trees our nursery in Iver, Bucks:

• Cupressocyparis leylandii
• Elaeagnus ebbingei
• Ilex aquifolium ‘Nellie R Stevens’
• Ligustrum japonicum
• Magnolia grandiflora ‘ Gallisoniensis’
• Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’
• Viburnum lucidum
• Photinia x fraseri ‘Pink Marble’

Contact us for details

We have these pleached tree, a comprehensive range of standard trees and evergreen screens

Please email trees@pracbrown.co.uk or complete this form or if you would like to discuss your requirements please call 01753 652022 for more information.

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Pleached trees can create effective screening or simply to improve privacy in your garden, without taking up very much space due to their slim canopy.  Pleached trees are created by training trees to a square frame, tying in and interlacing flexible young shoots along a supporting framework, creating an attractive slender tree.

Cupressocyparis leylandii

Commonly referred to as Leylandii, this is a very large and extremely vigorous species hybrid. Valued for its fast growth habit and dense, this evergreen tree provides an effective screen. Usually used in open spaces or as a windbreak, Leylandii can also be used effectively for screening in smaller spaces, such as these pleached trees but it must be regularly maintained and clipped to ensure it is contained for shape and space.

Elaeagnus ebbingei

Pleached Elaeagnus is an outstanding hardy evergreen with tough silvery grey leaves that are frost, wind and salt resistant. Elaeagnus is highly regarded for its sweet fragrance and tiny bell-shaped white flowers in late summer, followed by small orange berries in the winter. A species which positively thrives in coastal environments and all soil types, this makes an attractive pleached tree.

Ilex Nellie R Stevens (Holly)

Ideal for screening due to its symmetrical habit, density and lack of pruning requirements. The glossy green leaves are smooth rather than spikey. The autumn berries provide colour and food for birds. Grows well in well-drained soil, is drought tolerant, needs sun-partial sun.

Ligustrum japonicum (Japanese Privet)

A compact, small sized evergreen tree with camellia-like olive-green leaves that looks attractive in pleached form. It bears large clusters of white flowers in late summer. A tough performing species that will thrive on most soils, but avoid waterlogged areas.

Magnolia grandiflora ‘Gallisoniensis’

With large dark green leaves, this evergreen produces beautiful, large, white flowers in the summer, which can be up to 25 cm in diameter. As well as decorating this stunning tree, they also create a sweet-citrus smelling aroma, and makes a stunning pleached tree. Magnolia grows well in most soils, but it must be sheltered and not north-facing.

Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’

This is a versatile evergreen, that has vibrant red new shoots in spring, which contrast with the white blossom – unusual in an evergreen.  The bright new leaves change to a deep, glossy green as they mature. This tree is a colourful pleached tree.

Viburnum lucidum

This tree has dark green, shiny oval leaves that grow into a dense, busy habit. It produces cymes of small white, fragrant flowers in late winter, which stay in bloom until mid-spring. This tree also produces small, bluish-black berries in autumn.

Photinia x fraseri ‘Pink Marble’

Year-round interest with white springtime flowers and the marble effect foliage.

When the new leaves emerge in spring, they are a strikingly vivid pink and red, creating quite a display. As the leaves mature, the colour evolves to a glossy, dark green with an ivory-white edge or margin and with the occasional splash of pink and white.

Contact to us about your requirements for screening or privacy in your garden; we can supply and plant many types of attractive trees in both evergreen and deciduous species.