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Help with Box hedging

Posted by Robert Mcmillan on March 2, 2011 at 11:02pm
Looking for a bit of advice as i have a customer that we are going to plant up 18m of box hedging as part of a landscaping job.I would have rather go down the road of using young plants in 9cm pots as young plants tend to establish easier but the customer looking for an instant hedge.I have seen 1m container used as an instant hedgeHas anyone used them and could recommend a supplier ?
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  • Ena Ronayne March 3, 2011 at 12:22am

    Hi Robert

     

    Check out this post which I put on Facebook 5 months ago.  It may be of some help.  It is entitled 'Planting Density for a Parterre'  In relation to sourcing box hedging checkMondi Plants in Italy

    Hope this helps

     

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  • Claire Brown March 3, 2011 at 8:05am
    I used ready hedge for a client that wanted an instant box hedge last year, -  the plants were good quality, they were slightly let down by there rather expensive and obviously a courier who couldn't care less deliverer, who left mud on my clients drive and gave me the hessian wrapping to get rid of.
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    Gary RK March 3, 2011 at 9:20am

    We've just planted commercially 2 * 16m of box and used good bare root stock - which is still just available.

     

    Ht 30-40cm price dependant on quantity.

     

    We went dense, planted in a shallow 'W', by trenching, introducing OM, backfilling, firming & watering in.

     

    The ht has just been 'normalised' by a light top trim.

     

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    Nick @ NM Garden Services Ltd March 3, 2011 at 9:25am

    I planted about 200 b/r box last year in a garden. They were suppled at about 30-40cm (just like Gary's above).

     

    This is probably the cheapest way to do it and one year on the results still look great.

     

    Nick

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