Top 5 Hedges for Screening & Privacy
What are the best hedges to provide screening and privacy in your garden?
When looking for hedging to provide screening in your garden, the best solution is to plant mature hedging to give you instant privacy. Buying pre-grown hedges, such as our Practical Instant Hedge™ ensures that you have a solution to create a private, secure garden for you to enjoy.
You could plant individual plants, but you will need to wait for them to grow into a hedge. The best hedges to provide screening and privacy are those that are ready grown for that purpose, and in particular, evergreen instant hedge.
Which Instant Hedge is best for screening and privacy?
There are many garden hedges, and many are suitable for specific issues or requirements. Deciduous hedges offer season interest, from spring blossom to autumn fruits, however due to the annual leaf drop, they may not be suitable for year-round screening.
The best hedging to provide great screening for the whole of the year are evergreen, and they will give an attractive backdrop in your garden. Evergreen hedges are the best for screening and privacy.
Why use Evergreen Instant Hedges
Evergreen Instant Hedges are attractive hedges and give an immediate privacy screen. Our Practical Instant Hedge™ is grown in nine varieties at our hedge nursery in Iver, Buckinghamshire. Our production method that ensures this mature hedge is easy to handle, as it is pre-grown in 1m troughs at our nursery which means it can be planted all year round with no worry about “transplant” shock.
Our Top 5 Evergreen Instant Hedges
From our range of 9 evergreen Practical Instant Hedges, these are our pick of the top five hedges that are ideal for screening:
Common Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus ‘Rotundifolia’)
Common Laurel (or Cherry Laurel) makes a bright, dense evergreen hedge. It’s shiny lime green leaves are thick and leathery, making it a good choice for noise reduction, for example, from a busy road. Common Laurel Instant Hedge will thrive in most soils, including clay, but it dislikes (shallow) chalk.
Yew (Taxus baccata)
Practical Yew Instant Hedge is a very popular choice, a timeless classic that is at home in any garden style from formal traditional to elegant contemporary. The dark-green, conifer foliage is easy to maintain and trim. Yew hedges are perfect choice for dense, mature evergreen hedging.
Portuguese Laurel (Prunus lusitanica ‘Angustifolia’)
Practical Portuguese Laurel Instant Hedge will work well in any garden setting. The dark green leaves are neat and attractive, giving this evergreen hedge an attractive compact and refined appearance. Portuguese Laurel hedging likes most soils including clay and shallow chalk.
Broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis)
Practical Griselinia Instant Hedge™ (as known as Broadleaf) makes a wonderful evergreen instant hedge with its attractive light apple-green leathery leaves. Griselinia hedging is excellent for coastal locations as it is particularly tolerant of salt laden winds, ‘littoralis’ translates as ‘growing by the sea’.
Oleaster (Elaeagnus ebbingei ‘Compacta’)
Elaeagnus ebbingei ‘Compacta’ is a robust hedging plant with tough silvery grey leaves that are frost, wind and salt resistant. Also known as Oleaster, this Instant Hedge. is excellent for creating a dense evergreen screen anywhere but has particular value in coastal areas.
Why Plant Practical Instant Hedge™?
- Create an attractive backdrop for your garden project.
- Provides highly effective screening for privacy and security.
- Give your garden more shelter for your garden and filter pollution such as dirt and noise
- Hedges are more cost effective and weather resistant than fence or brickwork
- Help protect birds and wildlife by creating a natural habitat
- Enhance or section off parts of your property for sale.
How to order Practical Instant Hedge™
If you like to find out more about our comprehensive range of evergreen and deciduous Practical Instant Hedges, you can:
- Explore our website for more details, including current size availability
- We offer supply only, or supply and installation
- Call us on 01753 652022 and speak to our horticultural team
- Email us on hedge@www.pracbrown.co.uk with your requirements (including size and length of hedge, your location and whether you would like a price for installation) and we will return a quote within 2 working days.
Evergreen Instant Hedges are the best for screening and privacy in your garden
