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Boost the privacy of your garden with the natural beauty of Hornbeam, boasting spring to autumn foliage, regularly holding firm even across winter.
Deciduous and broadleaf Hornbeam are similar to Common Beech, but with bright green new leaves in spring, deeply veined and with serrated edges. The colour evolves to an autumnal copper shade towards the end of the year.
Many of the leaves remain in place into winter, for a colourful spectacle when others are bare or tired. In time, this variety transforms into a high hedge, screening out noise and wind, growing in height by roughly 20-40cm per year.
While creating an impactful border, hedges are also valuable to the wildlife of your garden, providing shelter and food supplies for many animals. Springtime catkins are followed by brown autumn berries, which are loved by birds.
These Hornbeam thrive even in poorer soil quality and exposed sites of the garden, tolerating conditions where the ground lays slightly wet through winter, such as on clay soils – great solutions for filling tricky spaces.
Supplied as a set of 25 established plants, 80-100cm tall in 3L pots, ready to plant.
Add mycorrhizal fungi at the roots when planting to help more efficient establishment.
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Please allow us 7-10 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.
Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.
We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.
Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.
Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.
Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.