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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 Update22 May 2026 - 3:33 pm
In Stock: 1.8m high Portuguese Laurel Practical Instant Hedge™4 June 2026 - 11:33 am
Instant Hedge In Focus: Purple Beech12 May 2026 - 12:45 pm
Large Trees Available Now22 April 2026 - 1:53 pm
Tree of the Week – Prunus serrulata ‘Kanzan’10 April 2026 - 2:05 pm
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The new development of individually styled period houses was softened into the environment by the judicious installation of evergreen Elveden Instant Hedge. Common Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus ‘Rotundifloia’) was chosen for its soft, pale green, fresh look and its even, vigorous growth that provides a year round hedge which reliably screens any new build project. Common Yew […]
Practicality Brown were chosen to supply Elveden Instant Hedge for a high quality new home development in Winchester, Hampshire. The project required: A total of 180m of hedge 136m Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) 30m of Common Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) and 14m Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium). Once again, the introduction of Elveden Instant Hedge truly added immediate impact […]
Award-winning Garden Designer, Arne Maynard designed a formal garden for a manor house in Berkshire. We supplied and planted Elveden Instant Hedge, Box hedge and specimen topiary to create an instant traditional garden in phase one of the garden design.
Once again, we were proudly involved in the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in 2011. We provided hedge for the RHS exhibit together with trees and hedge for three additional gardens, all of them medal winners: The Eye of the Internet Maze by Judy Cornford (Silver)
A client with a Grade II listed manor house in Buckinghamshire appointed garden designer Caroline Davy, who created a beautiful formal garden. Practicality Brown Ltd supplied and planted specimen trees, topiary and instant hedging, after winning a competitive tender. Planting included elegant Hornbeam Square Columns, taxus pyramids and a line of Box head Hornbeam trees (Carpinus betulus).
Our client in Wiltshire was looking for an unusual specimen tree to take pride of place in his beautiful cottage garden. We sourced and planted a beautiful Chinese beech tree (Fagus enleriana) which is a rare and graceful medium size tree with slender, sea-green foliage hanging from horizontal branches. The tree weight was 1.6 ton so […]
The client had built a spectacular new country home in East midlands on former pasture land and The Landscape Practice, based in York, designed the scheme. Practicality Brown won this project on a competitive tender basis; sourcing, supplying and planting 132 trees and 190 metres of Elveden Instant Hedge, together with an associated aftercare programme. […]
Elegant Topiary Garden Practicality Brown were commissioned to design and build an elegant topiary garden around the client’s rotunda in a private garden in Kent. We supplied and planted 24 semi mature trees, Instant Hedge and Specimen Topiary; the project required a high level of in-house project management and coordination with other trades on site […]
Satisfying Developers Practicality Brown Ltd was approached by a regular developer client to carry out tree clearance on a newly acquired site prior to re-development. The programme included felling, processing and removing over 175 trees in a two day condensed contract, some of which had a girth exceeding 3m; our extensive range of machinery, trained and experienced […]
Tree Moving On very cold January day, we worked together with the course manager Simon Graham and his groundsman and our 1.6 metre tree spade machine. As at many golf courses, this prestigious club has several planted copses that can be used to redesign the course as various stages. Suitable specimen trees were selected from […]