Photinia x fraseri 'Red Robin' bright red new leaf growth on espalier screens.

Evergreen Screening 12 July 2024/in News, Screening /by Marketing

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.

Variety	Size	Price
Cupressocyparis leylandii (Leylandii)	300 x 150cm	£938
Elaeagnus ebbingei (Oleaster)	150 x 100cm	£335
Elaeagnus ebbingei (Oleaster)	160 x 120cm	£335
Elaeagnus ebbingei Viveleg (Oleaster)	120 x 80cm	£258
Photinia ‘Red Robin’	200 x 100cm	£637
Photinia ‘Red Robin’	200 x 120cm	£456
Photinia robusta compacta	160 x 110cm	£456
Photinia robusta compacta	180 x 120cm	£543
Prunus laurocerasus ‘Novita’	180 x 120cm	£373
Pyracantha	200 x 120cm	£422
Trachelospermum jasminoides	180 x 120cm	£442

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.

: Star Jasmine

: Yew evergreen espalier screens

: Evergreen espalier screen

: Photinia Red Robin

: Pyracantha

: Sweet Gum deciduous espalier screen

Pleached Photinia Red Robin tree shown growing on the nursery with bright red foliage.

Pleached Trees In Stock NOW 20 June 2024/in News, Screening /by Marketing

Evergreen Pleached Trees

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

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.

Stock

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.

The Secret of a Good Garden 13 May 2021/in Instant Hedge, News /by Practicality Brown

What springs to mind when you think of how you’d like your garden to look? Lush expansive greenery or clear simple lines? An array of beautifully vivid wild contrasting colours or your favourite simple colour theme in a variety of subtle hues. Natural, wild foliage or tightly trimmed and clipped geometrical patterns? We all have our own idea of what makes a great garden.

Whether it’s the view from your window as spring bursts into life, or creating the perfect place to relax and entertain outdoors as the weather turns warmer, if you have structure to your garden it will be much easier to create the look and feel that you’re aiming for, and hedges are the ideal natural way to do this. They are extremely versatile and even popular well known gardeners have been known to say that they are the secret of every good garden.

Hedges have multiple benefits and having grown and supplied mature instant hedging to garden designers, landscapers and private clients, for over 20 years, we know they are also quite unique. The secret to a good garden is that structure is the foundation from which everything else should be planned. A hedge naturally establishes structure, creating a framework that will convey a sense of scale. While many hedgerows may have been growing for hundreds of years, Practical Instant Hedge™ can create full hedging structures instantly.

Creating structure

Boundaries and Partitions
Hedges make some of the best boundaries and dividers. Using hedging to separate your garden into ‘rooms’ or areas is a good option, as they can channel or block views. Low hedges can act as physical barriers to without blocking views, while taller hedges create an outline and can also provide a backdrop for focal points.

Backdrop and Colour
Instant hedging provides a lush green backdrop for other planting. Depending on how the light falls you will see the colour and texture change as well as attractive shadow play. It’s the perfect way to show off your flowering plants that are bursting into bloom in spring, and of course evergreen varieties will even make the view less bare and colourless in winter.

Shelter and Protection
Hedges give your garden more shelter and protection because the wind is broken up by the hedging. With a fence or wall, the wind whistles over the top and can land on the other side with some force, leaving delicate flowering plants or sheltered seating areas exposed to the elements.

Punctuation, Contrast and Framing
Just as commas break up a sentence, gardens need their punctuation points too. Lavish borders need a little geometry to give them structure and instant hedges are ideal for creating this as well as providing contrast for wilder plantings. You also showcase large features or sculptures by using instant hedging as a frame.

We have grown our own range of instant hedges to ensure they are easy to handle and plant all year round, meaning you can add instant structure to any garden. Practical Instant Hedge™ enables you to create the garden you want during the spring and summer months when you can enjoy the benefits immediately without having to wait for the right time to plant.

If you would like to know more about the range of species available and what makes our Practical Instant Hedge special, visit our webpage here, or simply email us hedge@pracbrown.co.uk

Native Mix Hedges 7 March 2017/in Elveden instant hedge, Elveden Instant Hedging, Garden design, Hedging, Instant Hedge /by Marketing

Garden Hedges

Hedges are aesthetically pleasing and add character to a property, whether they are an integral part of the design, or form a boundary fence. We have a number of mature hedge options across a range species, both evergreen and deciduous, including the popular Native Mix.

A good hedge has many benefits in addition to being a garden boundary:

Native mix hedge in private garden

It provide a good shelter; reducing wind strength better than a solid fence
It acts as a filter; absorbing dust and noise
It offers privacy; as an effective visual screen
It offers a level of security; a prickly hedge is a great deterrent
It has natural beauty and interest with seasonal changes
It provides background texture and colour to complement other plants
Wildlife can benefit from its food and shelter for insects, birds and mammals
It is long-lived; many hedges can last hundreds of years

Native Mix Instant Hedges

Native mix hedging contains plants that are all native to the UK and as such emulate traditional country hedgerows found throughout Britain. Our Native Mix would usually contain a combination of Hazel, Blackthorn, Hornbeam, Dogwood and Hawthorn, all of which are indigenous species.

Close up of leaves in Native mix hedge

Native Mix hedges creates a natural look and contain a variety of colours and textures which provide a rich living collage for excellent seasonal interest from the early spring blossoms to fruits and berries in the autumn. All kinds of wildlife will be attracted by the food and shelter opportunities.

Native hedging, by its very nature will thrive on most soil types and can be planted in all but the deepest of shade. It will tend to grow quite quickly at some 20 – 40 cm per year and will require pruning once a year, ideally in July; it can be left un-pruned, when it will prove even more wildlife friendly.

The Landscape Show 2016 15 September 2016/in Elveden instant hedge, Elveden Instant Hedging, Events, Garden design, Instant Hedge /by Marketing

The Landscape Show is a trade event, aimed at garden designers, architects, landscape contractors, local authority landscaping professionals, facilities managers and interior designers from all over the UK and beyond.

Once again we exhibited at the event, which is in Battersea Park London, showcasing the Elveden Instant Hedge. We were able to talk to new customers and meet up with existing ones.

Thank you to everyone that visited us – we hope to see more of you soon!

RHS Hampton Court Flower Show Results 5 July 2016/in customer work, Tree moving, Tree Planting, Trees /by Marketing

The RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2016 has showcased more stunning garden designs this year, made all the more challenging to create due to the unseasonal weather. Practicality Brown are proud to have contributed to the following medal-winning gardens, for which we provided Elveden Instant Hedge, Elements and hedging plants.

Gold Medals

• Show Gardens:

A Dog’s Life Garden designed by Paul Hervey-Brookes for The Dogs Trust

World Vision Garden designed by John Warland (Senseless Acts of Beauty)

• Summer Gardens:

A Summer Retreat designed by Laura Arison and Amanda Waring for CCLA

The Lavender Garden designed by Paula Napper, Sarah Warren and Donna King

Silver-Gilt Medal

• Show Garden: PMS: Outside Inside Garden for NAPS designed by Emma Bannister

• Summer Garden: A breath of Fresh Air designed by Rae Wilkinson for The Abbeyfield Society

Bronze Medal

• Show Garden: Cancer Research UK’s Life Garden designed by Antonia Young Built by Jeff Rosenblatt

Elegant trees for impact 10 May 2012/in Client work, Tree Planting, Trees /by Practicality Brown

A private client in Walton on Thames was seeking trees to complement their front garden and selected trees from our nursery, under the guidance of our experienced horticultural specialist. Five deciduous trees were chosen for appearance and suitability for their location. The chosen trees were a Purple Beech (Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea’) with a girth of 35-40cm girth, a Sweet Gum Read more →

Instant Box Hedge with Specimen Topiary Plants 21 July 2011/in Elveden Instant Hedging, Garden design, Instant Hedge, Topiary /by Practicality Brown

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.

RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 14 July 2011/in Elveden Instant Hedging, Events /by Practicality Brown

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)

Posts

Evergreen Screening Choices

Evergreen Espalier Screens