Garden Design: A Guide to Choosing Garden Hedging (2025)

🌿 The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Hedges 🌿
Hedges transform gardens – bringing privacy, wildlife, structure, and year-round beauty. Discover the best hedge plants for every garden style and purpose.

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Planting a hedge is one of the best long-term investments for any garden. A well-chosen hedge can provide privacy, reduce noise, shelter plants from wind, attract wildlife, and create beautiful structure that shapes the entire design of a garden.

This video explores the wide variety of hedging options available and helps you decide which is right for your space. From traditional evergreens like yew and laurel to deciduous favourites such as beech and hornbeam, as well as colourful alternatives and modern low-maintenance choices, this guide covers it all.

Viewers will discover:
✅ Why hedges are essential for garden design and wildlife
✅ Key factors to consider before planting – size, evergreen vs deciduous, colour, maintenance, and cost
✅ The strengths and drawbacks of popular hedge plants, plus box alternatives for modern gardens
✅ How hedges can divide spaces, frame views, and add year-round interest

Whether the goal is to create a formal design, a wildlife-friendly boundary, or a fast-growing privacy screen, this complete guide offers the knowledge needed to make the right choice.

0:00 Intro
2:10 Things to Consider
2:18 1) Size
2:43 2) Evergreen or deciduous?
3:07 3) Colour
3:54 4) Maintenance
4:15 5) Cost
7:08 Deciduous or Evergreen
7:38 Deciduous Hedges
7:43 Beech
19:43 Hornbeam
12:48 Pleached Hedges
13:47 Thorny Hedges
13:56 Hawthorn
15:14 Evergreen Thorny Hedges
15:28 Semi-evergreen Hedges
16:11 Evergreen Hedges
16:21 Yew
18:42 Box
20:01 Alternatives to Box
20:36 Protrate Yew
20:50 Japanese Holly
21:36 Winter Box
22:41 Pittosporum
23:40 Other Low Hedges
23:56 Wire Netting Brush
24:32 Leylandii
25:51 Cherry Laurel
27:24 Portuguese Laurel
28:45 Sweet Olive
29:37 Red Robin
30:36 Oleaster
31:40 Lavender
31:56 Roses
32:17 Star Jasmine
32:39 Hydrangea
33:02 Summary and Goodbye

Link to Wisley Box Alternatives Trial:

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/climbers

Video references:

Garden Design: Where to Start & Who Can Help?

How to Choose the Perfect Garden Style for Your Home

Designing a Garden That Fits Your Life – 5 Key Considerations!

How to Plan your Dream Garden: Site Assessment Guide

Using Shapes in Garden Design

Great Design Ideas to Implement in your Garden

Bare Root Hedging – How to ensure success

Tips for planting a hedge

Tips on How to Create a Hedge on Stilts (Pleaching Trees)

10 Best Evergreen Trees for year round structure

Is it the end for your Boxwoods? -it doesn’t have to be!

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making the decision to plant a hedge is an investment in the future of your garden it’s the means to Define your space and create the structure on which everything else will hang this is an exciting topic and there is so much choice so let’s explore together which is the right Hedge for you hello and welcome to Murphy’s Garden and if you are new to the channel my name is Jenny and this channel is a mixture of practical gardening learning new skills and visiting inspirational places I’d be really grateful if you would like and subscribes it really helps for the channel to grow now in this video we will be exploring the different plant options for hedging Hedges are a great way to screen a garden to give privacy around a boundary perhaps from a busy road they will help to create an immersive space away from the hustle and bustle of Life a garden in which to retreat into but head can also be used internally within the garden to create different zones each with a unique feeling helping to achieve that wonderful feeling of intrigue that we’ve talked so much about in previous videos if you’re struggling to know where to begin in designing or redesigning your garden as an amateur then check out the series of five videos that we’ve done on how to lay out a garden put a link in the description to all of the videos that I refer to in this in this video now Hedges can be used very effectively to conceal seal the entirety of the garden have a look at the video I did all about wer and old Hall a garden which is a master class on how to do this well epitomizing drama and Discovery at every turn and of course fences walls and trellis can also be used to create effect to divide a space too but the advantage of Hedges is that they are a natural Bindy and bring nature into the garden like nothing else since planting all the hedges in this Garden there’s always that lovely background sound of bird song which contributes to that escapism and makes the garden a living natural Sanctuary so if you’re Keen to plant a hedge then we will look at some of the options firstly there are five things you need to consider which will help you decide which plants will be most suitable for you and your garden number one is size so think about what is the ultimate height you would like your hedge to get to are there any width or height restrictions think about how the size will affect the maintenance so perhaps maintenance above a certain height will be a problem if you’re unable to reach it you may need privacy higher up such as perhaps above 6t to block out an overlooking window the next point to consider is evergreen or deciduous so do you need the Hedge to give you privacy all year or perhaps just at certain times of the year some deciduous plants lose all of their leaves in Winter and some lose some but Evergreen Hedges will be impenetrable all all year and will give you privacy um all the time we will come to look at examples of each now the next thing number three to consider which is often overlooked is color how will the color of the Hedge work in the context of the garden there are various Shades of Green from bright vivid greens to dark green deciduous Hedges look fresh green in Spring and may have beautiful tones in autum there are also um silver variegated red or purple Lea Hedges to choose from so think about what colors would work best as a foil for other plants you intend to plant most Hedges provide a good structural background to other more colorful planting but a flowering hedge will be the focus in its own right so it may be best to avoid planting it behind other plants that flour particularly at the similar time as they may be competing for attention and number five is maintenance so who will maintain the Hedge have you got suitable equipment if not what equipment will you need to buy to do the job safely or alternatively how much will it cost to pay a gardener to cut the Hedge for you and how often will it need cut some Hedges need cut once a year but some may need cut up to three times a year next we’ll come on to cost the final Point as well as the cost obviously of Maintenance there are also cost implications when it comes to actually planting the heads choosing the type of hedge the time of year you’re planting and the size of the plants the C c will depend on whether or not you’re prepared to wait for the hedges to grow from small plants or whether you want a quick impact hedge although appearing underwhelming when first planted small plants will usually establish quickly and will often catch up with bigger ones which although initially bigger will often sulk for a couple of years before putting on much more growth hedging plants are available in different ways so you can get pot grown plants they’re available all year round but they are the most expensive way to buy plants the cost to plant up in soil in a plastic pot and then the weight of transportation is what makes them expensive some plants are available root balled this means they have grown naturally in a field rather than confined in a pot meaning that the roots have a tendency to grow outward and so they will establish quickly they are dug up from the field and wrapped up in hesan and if they’re transported quickly into your garden they are a cheaper way to get quite big plants as the weight is reduced although they do still have a good amount of Earth around them but the associated cost of planting them into plastic pots is reduced root Bowl plants are available from November through to March as out with this time period the root bow would dry out more quickly in warmer weather now the final option is to buy bar root Hedges be root is by far the cheapest way and be root plants are available around the same time period from November through to about March be root plants tend to to be smaller and come without soil so they’re very light and easy to transport they’re also very quick to plant as you can simply make a slit in the ground and pop in the plant rather than digging lots of holes the dying side is is that they will dry up very quickly so it’s a good idea to have the site ready before ordering your plants or alternatively heal them in into some Earth until you’re ready to plant so as we progress through each plant we will look at these considerations in more detail and I’ll leave link to the videos on how to plant both root Bal U plants which we did in this garden and be root Beach plants when we moved here 15 years ago I had never planted a hedge but I was aware of most of the common types of Hedges seen in gardens all over the UK and so we chose plants that we knew these Hedges are popular and common for a reason and that’s because they are reliable and feel safe in most locations so let’s take a walk around our garden and have a look at some and then we’ll come on to other ideas for Hedges which perhaps I didn’t know about at the time but you may wish to consider Hedges really fall into two main categories deciduous and Evergreen Evergreen Hedges grow all year round and make them ideal if the primary reason for planting a hedge is for privacy but they often require more maintenance and need to be trimmed ideally twice a year deciduous Hedges will lose some or all of their leaves during the Autumn or winter making them not quite as good at providing privacy however they allow the wind to filter through them slowing down the wind speed in Winter which is really useful so let’s begin with deciduous Hedges the first and one of my very favorite is Beach or figus lvaa as we have here this hedge was bought as be root plants and planted around the boundary line of our garden in 2014 however it was so tiny and had such little impact initially we regretted planting it as the openness of our garden meant that without an instant wind we just couldn’t get on and plant other things in our garden until the perimeter hedge had established and so we dug it up and moved it to this location and it’s used as an internal hedge beach in my experience is quite slow growing but makes a good hedge from about 1 to 5 met it will grow around 30 to 60 cm in a year although its class is a deciduous hedge the old Dead Leaves stay on until the new ones push them off in Spring and this means that an established hedge will offer good screen all year round by keeping the beach plants in a juvenile state by pruning them into a hedge the leaves stay on the plant and this is called marence the most popular explanation for why this occurs is to protect the plant from grazing herbivores so the Dead Leaves are dry and unpalatable whereas the leaves on a beach tree will fall off as as they would in a normal deciduous tree I love the newness of the bright green Lush growth in Spring and I also love the ainal col oscope of yellows and oranges in Autumn but what I didn’t grow it for and didn’t think about was the Dead Leaves in Winter and this has turned like to be an unexpected added bonus and I absolutely love the russed orange tones of the winter leaves and they are critical in providing color to our garden in the depths of winter and contrast beautifully with the dark green of our U Hedges I’m always so excited in spring when the leaves slowly um but surely open bit by bit and they open this bright green fresh green color but this is quite lit it’s usually around May time before they open but it’s worth the wait because they look so lovely but there’s also another color option how about Copper Beach or Vegas lvaa Perrier which opens purple and brings purple and a whole new tone to the Garden it can make a lovely backdrop to plants in a herbaceous border which perhaps contain splashes of purple too um the Hedge that we have has actually got a few dashes of copper Beach mixed into it by mistake rather than design but I rather like it if you do decide to mix the two colors allow this to occur randomly as when planting alternately it looks contrived and a bit [Music] unnatural the next hedge we come on to is hornbeam and here we have it growing as a pleach hedge or hedge on stils and we’ll come on on to pleaching in a bit but first let’s talk about hornbeam so you’ll be forgiven for thinking that it looks very similar to Beach and they are very similar but if comparing the leaves then you will see that although both have oval pointed tips the leaves of hornbeam are smaller and more deeply furrowed and have finely toothed edges whereas beach has wey edges and is more has more of a glossy Leaf like beach hornbill will hold on to its leaves when growing as aead but in a cold winter beach will hold on to more than hornbeam at the moment it’s February and you can see that these hornbeam trees have mostly discarded their leaves but this may be because they are taller than an average hedge and so this may be because of the reasons previously sted and these have been allowed to mature into trees rather than being kept in their juvenile form as Hedges so it’ be interesed to know if you’ve got a hornbeam standing hedge has it still got its leaves now in February or has it lost them as these Bach ones have done the winter leaves of beach Hedges are bright copper and nicer than the more dull dark gray brown ones of hornbeam both Beach and hornbeam can grow in par shed or full sun but Beach doesn’t like damp soil and is more dry tolerant whereas hornbeam will perform better on moist soils so choose hornbeam if you’re on clay soil and perhaps add a little bit of grit for drainage as it won’t light water logg soils out of the two hornbeam will coope better in a windy location and so is ideal here where we get the W Westerly forces of the wind coming in from this direction it does get blowing around a lot hornbeam grows quicker than Beach and may need cutting twice a year to keep it in shape whereas um Beach can um can just be cut once a year although Beach is used for pleaching it can be used for pleaching hornbeam is more commonly seen I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen um pached beach trees for sale in the nursery that we go to and that is probably because it’s a much slower [Music] process and while we’re on the subject of pleach trees I have done an extensive video all about how to achieve this look and which plants are suitable but the general rule is that the plants used must have a relatively short distance between the buds to give the density of branches required for this technique and the chosen tree must be quite a robust variety and capable of resisting disease as there a lot of there is a lot of pruning involved for this technique other options for pleaching into a hedge on stills using evergreen trees are magnolia grandora or Evergreen Magnolia quirkus eix or home Oak Fatina or Red Robin or iages exm bingi or thorny Olive some of these make also make great traditional Hedges so we’ll have a look at some of these in this video but for Magnolia and homeo I’ve classified these as trees so check out the video I did on best evergreen trees if you want more information on them so next we come on to Hedges with thorns and hedges with thorns are usually some of the hedges most favored by birds and here in our garden we have a Hawthorn and a mixed hedge containing some dog wood and some Black Thorn it’s always full of birds and from EXP expence I walk past a holly hedge every morning with Murphy and it’s teeming with little sparrows and and the Thorns seem to us an unlikely place to set up home but they afford the greatest protection from attack and I suppose the same could be said for us so picking Hedges with prickles um is sure to deter Invaders onto your land however the downside is that they’re very painful to maintain manually I love the job of picking up the bits of the hathorn Hedge after it’s been cut hathorn hedging or CRI monaya is in abundance here in shopshire surrounding all the farmers fields and this along with Blackthorn and dog row make good deciduous native Hedges and are perhaps suited to a Wilder more natural look Hawthorne is deciduous and in Spring the hedges come to life with clusters of fragrant white flowers which provide food for pollinators as Autumn approaches the dark green lobed leaves give way to bright red cherries called attracting birds and even in Winter the hathorn um has these dense thorny branches which offer protection and nesting [Music] spots some other thorny prickly or spiky hedging ideas but this time Evergreen include burus English Holly and paranthas before we move on to Evergreen Hedges I should just touch on this one which is not really classed as evergreen or deciduous but rather semi- Evergreen and that is privet lingum volium personally this is my least favorite head to me it just always looks scruffy and it’s not one thing or the other this one admittedly is a very old head so perhaps it’s reaching the end of its natural life is they usually live around 30 to 40 years and so you may have a younger one which looks a lot nicer than this one there’s also a golden variety which is brighter and perhaps a little bit prettier than this one [Music] so now let’s look at the huge array of options when it comes to Evergreen Hedges so the king of Hedges let’s start with that this is a native English U or Taxas picata a true British classic English U is the most popular Conifer hedge admired for its versatility ease of Maintenance and year r interest is also incredibly good to toize into all sorts of shapes and unlike other Conifer Hedges you can be cut back hard and will regenerate from old wood other conifers are incapable of doing this youu has a reputation for being slow growing but in fact we really haven’t found it to be the case and you only becomes slow growing when the main stem has been cut so if you leave the main stem until it reaches just below the desired height and then cut it it will become slow growing thereafter although the books Etc say is easy maintenance one thing that we have struggled with a little bit is getting the growth to be forward facing the year before last we had to quite radically remove a lot of long lateral growth in this quite juvenile hedge behind me which has improved things a little bit although we do still have quite a few holes in it and we’ve yet to get that really nice dense look you can be used to create Hedges of all sizes due to its ability to be clipped hard and is now being used more and more as an alternative to box hedging which we’ll come on to and someone told me the other day that they had recently planted a hedge of Irish use I have done a video all about you um going into this in much more detail but just to quickly explain Irish you has the Latin name taxes Bata figata the vestigia means that it’s important because it means that it has an upward growth habit rather than outwards making it great for cular trees punctuating in areas we’ve done in our garden but it really isn’t the best choice for a hedge as it will struggle to knit together well and the same is true for other Hedges such as hornbeam carpinus Bess fdate also with that fdate word meaning it grows upright so just bear this in mind when you go to by plants if you’re at a good Nursery they should be able to advise you it’s also necessary to say that the leaves bark and seed inside the fruit of the U is poisonous to humans and animals so bear this in mind when planting if you have small children and [Music] animals so now we’ll come on to box hedging or box ofin which has been used in gardens for centuries to create yearr Evergreen structure in the form of small medium and large Hedges and taery um it’s now very sad as it’s now under threat from box blight and box tree caterpillar I’ve done a detailed video all about this subject and how to protect box plants in your garden from box blight and what to do if the Box tree caterpillar attacks blight is a fungal disease which causes the leaves to turn Brine and fall off leading to ugly bear patches but the product top boxes really does work at preventing it happening in the first place and here in our garden you can see a direct comparison between an area of box treated and an area that wasn’t treated and the results simply speak for themselves however although I love love box and I still will continue to enjoy it in my own garden for as long as possible it’s probably best not to plant this as a new hedge as it does require a bit of work and cost to keep it blight free and it’s no longer the trouble-free Hedge that it once was but if you do have it already in your garden don’t be too hasty to remove it but instead love and look after it so if you’re looking for a smallish hedge and you need a box alternative there have been much research done into this subject to find a suitable replacement one such trial was done at rhs Garden wisley and I’ll leave a link to the to this in the description to their findings so let’s now have a look at some of the alternatives to box that give a similar effect and as we’ve just said many gardeners and designers are choosing to grow you as lwh hedges we’ve seen it growing at David Austin rose garden and in lots of rhs show Gardens and the variety taxes pagata resplendant is a prostate form of English you and is ideal for tightly clipped low Hedges I think probably the most similar looking plant to box is Japanese Holly or isix crena it has small glossy green leaves and bears small white flowers in summer and may produce black fruits in Autumn it’s tolerant of shade and pollution and it can be clipped into shapes or growing as a low hedge it looks especially good when Cloud pruned and the variety isix crenated dark green is said to look most like box however the wizzly trial find that it disliked really wet Winters and dry hot summers and but it probably would do well further north preferring a cool damp summer and a well- drained neutral to acid soil and I’m now with another alternative to box this is Saka cocka this one is confuser I’ve got two clumps of it here was meant to be three but um one of them died so it does tit well from cuttings this is a little cutting that I did and it’s catching up or will catch up with the others and it’s got these kind of pointy leaves and the advantage of this it grows well in a shaded spot um it’s got these pointy leaves and it’s also got these tiny little um flowers on it and at this time of year it smells beautiful and it spread throughout the garden it’s really useful for pollinators in the depths of winter and here I’ve brought another variety this is saraka hukana which has got these again pointy leaves green strappy leaves but it’s got a little um pink flower on it and both smell absolutely lovely so this would make a good alternative to box particularly in a shaded spot and it Clips well too haven’t clipped it here but it doors clip [Music] well and also in the Wizzle trial they included lots of ptis Borum which looks absolutely lovely and it comes in lots of different colors this one is Pitt boram tenium Tom Thumb we’ve got another one ptis Borum tenium Irene Patterson got one called silver sheen there’s lots of different colors and forms and they look absolutely beautiful but what they find in the trial that after when they clip them they find that the the base tended to get quite bare so at the bottom so it’s probably best if you are going to use it for a hedge to rather than try and keep it low but to keep it at this sort of height a largish medium to you know medium sort of size hedge might work quite well and it’s also the other problem with it it’s not always that Hardy so it’s um in a very cold winter it is possible to lose them and I think that happened at wisley on their trial [Music] and some other plants featured on the Wizzle trial which you may like to consider are canoni Aster lenisa Feria and gholia and poic carpus and another plant which we have growing here in the Woodland garden and this is called kokia and you’ll see that it’s got the um quite small leaves um on quite wiry stems um it looks nice it’s a lovely lovely plant um and that apparently Clips well um we haven’t done that here we’ve kept it more as a as a bush it’s put on lots of growth actually and probably could do with a clip but it can be used in place of box as well and this is leandi or leand Cyprus it gets a little bit of a bad rrap simply because if left unchecked it will quickly get out of control um and can reach Heights in excess of 30 m so if you plant one you are committing to cutting it at least twice a year and we’ve used it here around the perimeter of our garden uh there was a drive running um the other side of this and we were open and had no privacy in Garden whatsoever the other issue we had was that we get the north Westerly winds coming into our garden battering it from this direction meaning that we just couldn’t grow anything much until we had some sort of protection um and it was for this reason that we removed the beach and replaced it with Leeland Cyprus it’s relatively cheap to buy you can get quite tall plants cheaply and we bought them as pot growing plants and they provided instant screening although it did take a few years for them to fill out and give the impenetrable barrier that we now have here [Music] today and I’m here now by Cherry Laurel or common Laurel also known as pris lissi Asis rolia another staple of British gardiens it has these much bigger and as the name suggests more rounded leaves which are bright green and shin and reflect and Bs the light and are good at eliminating a darker spot we planted this on our drive to do just that and to add a bit of greenery to what what was just a lot of um gray Concrete in order to do this we had to drill through the concrete and fill it with soil although Laurel is usually fast growing they have taken an an eternity to establish here um I since find out that they do like a deep root run which they probably Haven which they probably haven’t got here so I think that although they are for the most most part getting going nigh we have probably sort of bonss side them a little bit I think due to the size of the leaves they make a good large hedge and when it comes to cutting them a hedge cutter will slice the leaves in two which doesn’t look so nice so if it bothers you you can just go through them by hand just tidying up afterwards a little variation on a theme is Laurel Etna which looks similar to Cherry Laurel with large mid-green foliage but the foliage has brond orange highlights to the new young leaves giving a lovely and interesting splash of [Music] color so I’m by another Laurel and it’s worth just saying that Laurel is toxic the leaves are toxic so again be aware of that when planting it if you’ve got animals and children and this is Portuguese Laurel or prunus lanica and gusta foia and here we have it growing as trees but it makes a really great hedge the leaves look very different to Cherry Laurel um they have these pointed glossy leaves um and they have a striking deep pink or maroon stem when mature this is really easy to grow and it’s easy to cut into shape I’ll just cut ours back last weekend a little bit earlier than we would usually do it it also has showy white flowers in late spring and goes on to produce dark fruits in Autumn someone did ask me you know is it safe to have this with the dog um due to its toxicity and looking into it further it is just the leaves that are toxic not the fruit so because it’s Evergreen it doesn’t drop its leaves so as long as you clear up the leaves when you when you prune it um it shouldn’t be too much of a problem the fruit which may fall um as I say isn’t toxic so on the great scheme of things I think it’s quite low risk Murphy is certainly never been a problem with Murphy who doesn’t incidentally eat anything green so it’s never been a problem and another plant that we have growing here as a tree but which also makes a really good hedge is this one it’s osmanthus Buck Woody eye and we have it growing as a multi- stem tree but it also makes a lovely fragrant hedge it has masses of tiny sumptuously fragrant white flowers produced in Spring providing a rich scent which seems to fill the whole garden is relatively slow growing about 15 cm 6 in a year and if left it can reach about 4 M but when clipped it will make a good hedge of about 1 to 2 m in height and so it makes a good slow growing easy maintenance small hedge and is also another really great alternative to box [Music] and another great hedge is Fatina or Red Robin and Red Robin is um has these dark green leaves with a hint of red on them and it has creamy flowers as well but it’s for the new foliage that it’s really growing the new foliage comes through fary bright red and looks really really striking it’s quite quick growing growing at about 20 to 40 cm in a year so makes a good hedge from about 1 1 met to 4 m in height and because of its quick growth it also makes a really good pached hedge as I’ve also mentioned I personally think it suits a more modern location I felt it wouldn’t really go in this location I don’t know if you agree with me but I think it looks stunning with um perhaps a more modern backdrop [Music] now if you want another color a little bit different um you want something perhaps silver leaved then consider oester or silver berry also known as IL Agnes XM bingi IL Agnes is a tough Evergreen plant and it’s great for difficult locations like a coastal site it can tolerate a windy sight and dry soils but it doesn’t like um icy cold or very wet El Agnes XM bingi has glossy gray green leaves and late in the year it produces fragrant bell-shaped small white flowers which sit in small clusters around the leaves and are barely visible but they give off a Divine smell it produces orange berries which are unusually produced in Spring rather than in Autumn and against the bronze colored stems they look lovely it has a dense habit and is great for screening and hedging and with an attractive silver Shimmer it adds something a little bit different to the garden some other flowering hedge ideas lavender makes a really great low hedge particularly along a pathway as it smells [Music] great and Roses too make a good hedge and this one is Rosa Rosa the advantage of this is that it has as well as the flowers it has these large rose hips during the Autumn making it striking all year [Music] through star jasmine growing against a trellis or screen gives the impression of a stunning flouring hedge but takes up very little spaced while still providing nectar and pollen for nature and a beautiful smell into the bargain hydranges make a lovely hedge and this particular variety is a superb large bushy shrub which produces a succession of huge round white flower heads up to about 30 cm across during summer [Music] so we’ve reached the end of the video we haven’t covered every hedge by any means but we’ve covered a good selection some really really lovely ones so think carefully about what you want to plant because this is going to be the structure that holds your garden together for all year or the whole year through if you are planting um be root or indeed root ball then you need to get a move on to plant this year but my advice is to take your time think slowly and carefully about it and then go into Autumn ready to plant and I personally think the best time to plant be root a root ball is the start of the Autumn that way the soil’s warm it can start to establish over the winter the Autumn and into winter and it will get growing really quickly in Spring and it doesn’t need a lot of watering and a lot of looking after so hope you find the right Hedge for you and join us again in the next video bye for now