Practicality Brown have specialised in Instant Hedge for over 20 years, providing immediate impact and maturity to many private gardens and landscaping projects.
Our Instant Hedges are pre grown and sold by the linear metre, rather than as individual plants. These mature hedges are available to plant all year round and are supplied between 0.8m and 1.8/2m high. Using our experience we have now developed our own range of Instant Hedge grown in hedge bags by us in Iver, Bucks.
You are most welcome to visit to view our stock and select your own hedge, just contact our sales team to make an appointment and one of our experts will show you around the nursery.
1.8m high Portuguese Laurel Practical Instant Hedge™
Please see our Practical Instant Hedge™ page for details of this high end, easy to plant, Instant Hedge.
For more information please either fill out an enquiry form or call us on 01753 652022 to discuss your requirements. Our sales team will then be able to provide a bespoke quotation based on the best instant hedge options for your specific garden project.
NEW – Order Online
For delivery only orders, you can now also use our new online shop – just click on the name of the hedge you are interested in under the hedge pictures below.
We also have hedges taller than 2m high available – click on the following link for details – screening trees and high hedge.
Instant Hedge Varieties
We have over fifteen thousand metres of instant hedge in production, both evergreen and deciduous, the species and heights available are listed below. The availability can change on a weekly basis and therefore we welcome specific enquiries, based on the approximate linear metres required and the time of planting.
Evergreen Instant Hedging
Broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis)
Yew (Taxus baccata)
Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus ‘Rotundifolia’)
White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis ‘Brabant’)
Portuguese Laurel (Prunus lusitanica ‘Angustifolia’)
Oleaster (Elaeagnus ebbingei ‘Compacta’)
Photinia fraseri ‘Red Robin’
Blue Holly (Ilex meserveae)
Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium) semi-evergreen
Burkwood osmanthus (Osmanthus burkwoodii)
Deciduous Instant Hedging
Native Mix (various mixes of native plants)
Green Beech (Fagus sylvatica)
Purple Beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Atropunicea’)
Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Instant Hedge Benefits
Hedges are cost effective, compared to a brick wall and form an attractive boundary more quickly than many gardeners imagine.
They can create a strong framework for the garden, so that it looks good in midwinter and is adept at providing an attractive background to carry the beautiful floral decoration of spring and summer. As well as providing structure to the garden, they can be perfect for wildlife, and particularly nesting birds.
Planting a mature, instant hedge has the following benefits:
- We have taken the time to grow the hedges, so you don’t have to!
- Shelter: reducing wind strength better than a solid barrier
- Filter: absorbing dust and noise
- Privacy: as an effective visual screen, particularly evergreen hedging
- Security: a prickly hedge is a great intruder deterrent
- Beauty and interest from seasonal changes, particularly deciduous hedging
- Background texture and colour complement other plants
- Wildlife: food and shelter for a wide variety of native insects, birds and mammals
- Weather-resistance: much better than manmade fences or brick walls
- Economy long term compared with fencing and brick work
- Long-lived: hedges can last hundreds of years
- Can be planted to shape, such as a curve
- Easy to maintain; see our notes on maintaining your instant hedge.
Hedge Selecting Guide
We have created a table to help select the most suitable instant hedge for your project, click here.
Delivery and Installation
Our service options include delivery and installation or delivery only; for hedges direct to your garden, you need to look no further.
Mature Ready Grown Hedges
Practicality Brown have a number of hedging options available to help take the time out of creating a mature, instant look for any garden hedge project – whether its evergreen instant hedging for privacy screening or the seasonal interest of a mature deciduous instant hedging.
As well as our own Practical Instant Hedge™ we also supply top quality Hedging Elements and other quality hedging solutions.
Hedging Plants
We can also supply beautiful individual hedging plants and elements for different applications and extreme heights of up to 6 metres; see our Projects page or News Blog for examples of our work.
Testimonials
Hedging and Trees
“A big thank you to your team. Everyone was extremely professional, personable and responsive. Steve was excellent in making suggestions and coming up with a planting plan. Conrad was equally consultative during the planting process when we re-ordered the shrubs for the back garden once we had them on site and worked with us on positioning the front hedge. Everything looks great and we couldn’t be happier with the screening set up in the back garden – most importantly, our neighbour loves it!! As Steve knows, we have another project on the go at the moment – we will be in touch next year once we start the landscaping process and need to address another screening challenge.” SB
“Thanks for a job beautifully done! The Photinia hedgerow looks brilliant; as if it had been there ten years already. The team were great; very efficient and professional, carrying out their work with care and precision. Even the lorry and the equipment looked classy! I arrived at the house at 8:00am to the usual gap at the front and by lunchtime the hedge was in place being irrigated and the grounds tidied over. So glad I went with Practicality Brown and if anyone wants a recommendation, I’ll give you my 10 out of 10 vote. Thanks again to all who worked on this project.” HS
“Just wanted to say how thrilled we are with the beech hedge you installed at the beginning of the month. We were very impressed with all the team from start to finish, they were friendly, extremely efficient and very tidy. It really sets the house off and has been much complimented on by friends and neighbours. In fact one of them has already asked for your number. Please pass on our thanks to all those involved.” D&S M
“We were very pleased with the Yew hedge – it has achieved exactly the effect that we wanted… “ I H – Whitchurch.
“The Practicality Brown team were very helpful and co-operative. I chose the hedges myself and was delighted with the service”. Dr. R P
“I expected you to be good and you were, well done”. JR, Hertfordshire.
“Very pleased with the product, good informative response from site workforce. The Yew hedge for Sytch Lane Cemetery (Wombourne), lived up to our expectations”. PD.
“I’m not really sure where I heard of Practicality Brown, but I am very pleased with the quality of the hedge supplied…” JC.
“The hedge was recommended by Pathfinder Gardening. The quality of the Beech hedging supplied was excellent”. AM.
“The impact of a 30 metre long, 6 feet high instant laurel hedge appearing overnight caused some very amusing stares from drivers on the school run! A fantastic end result, providing privacy and noise reduction”. CC.
“Many thanks for the great service and quality of the yew hedging. I will be in touch regarding future work soon”. R.
Contact Us
Please use the enquiry form with details of the hedges that you are interested in and we will provide you with a bespoke quotation.
Can I buy a pre grown hedge
You can buy a hedge or an instant hedge from Practicality Brown. We offer different products that can be used as a hedge in your garden; a ready grown instant hedge and individual hedging plants.
Instant hedging is pre-grown as a mature, readymade hedge, which creates an immediate impact. This is sold by the linear metre and is available between 0.8m to 2m high.
Individual hedging plants are particularly useful if a high hedge is required over the standard 2m high instant hedge. They are available in heights from 60cm up to 6m
Both hedging products are available in a variety of popular species, both evergreen and deciduous.
What is an instant hedge?
An instant hedge is pre-grown as a mature hedgerow, creating an immediate, impressive impact; these top quality hedging options are sold by the linear metre, rather than as individual plants.
Benefits of planting an instant hedge:
- Immediate, impressive impact
- Mature plants that have already knitted together
- Suitable for planting all year round
- Creates show garden quality and effect
How long before my hedge looks mature?
Our hedges are mature from the moment of planting, we have the time to grow them, so you don’t have to.
Testimonial
“Thanks for a job beautifully done! The Photinia hedge looks brilliant; as if it had been there ten years already. I arrived at the house at 8:00am to the usual gap at the front and by lunchtime the hedge was in place…… So glad I went with Practicality Brown and if anyone wants a recommendation, I’ll give you my 10 out of 10 vote. Thanks again to all who worked on this project.” HS
