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Kew Gardens now with Practical Instant Hedge

Practical Instant Hedges are on Kew Royal Botanic Gardens required a mature hedging solution along the perimeter of their planned Children’s Garden at Kew Gardens. The hedging was needed for immediate impact, to create the boundary of the garden, with the intention of leaving only one main entrance and exit to the garden. The Children’s […]

Practicality Brown buys first Sampo Forwarder in UK

New Machinery – Sampo FR28 Forwarder Practicality Brown have purchased a Sampo-Rosenlew FR28 Forwarder which now joins our fleet and we are the first company in the UK to buy this forestry machine in the UK. “We had been looking for a lightweight, nimble yet powerful small forestry forwarder for a while, and this new […]

RHS Tatton Park 2019

Young Garden Designers at RHS Tatton Park RHS gives young garden designers the chance to kick start their careers and gain invaluable exposure at a prestigious RHS Show with its Young Designer Competition, now in its 11th year. This year, four young designers created gardens at the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show. Practicality Brown like to support […]

RHS 2019 Hampton Court Garden Festival

Practicality Brown at RHS Hampton Court Every year, Practicality Brown have the pleasure of working with talented Garden Designers at the Royal Horticultural Society’s prestigious Garden Shows and this July we supplied six gardens at Hampton Court with 75m of our Instant Hedge as well as five semi-mature trees. Five gardens used our Practical Native […]

Trees at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019

Specimen Trees at RHS Chelsea Flower Show There was a strong green colour scheme at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show and the BBC coverage showed many of the talented garden designers’ creations. Once again, Monty Don, respected gardener and broadcaster chose his favourite Trees from this year’s show. Including the impressive resident avenue of […]

Best Pleached Trees (Our Top 5 trees we recommend)

Pleached Trees If your garden needs effective screening or simply to improve privacy without reducing the living space then a pleached tree may well be the answer. Please see our top five suggestions below, which make attractive Pleached Trees. Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel) Photinia fraseri Red Robin Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam) Fagus sylvatica (Beech) Tilia platyphyllos […]