English Woodlands Blog

Plant focus on Ligustrum lucidum excelsum superbum - Chinese Privet - an attractive tree for screening.

Colour is not just for flowers! Trees and shrubs can provide a beautiful palette of colour for structural planting. Think gold, silver, bronze (well burgundy!) for a winning alternative to green foliage. We love green but a well placed highlight of a different foliage colour can add a dramatic focal point or a complimentary backdrop to other planting...

A summer selection of beautiful foliage and flowers. Trees and shrubs looking great in June.

A selection of plants on the nursery looking great now for late spring interest...

Last rootballed hedge plants available until October 2021.

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Winter gardens don't have to be dreary! Some trees and shrubs provide colourful stems and bark, fragrant flowers and foliage colour.

Autumn to spring is the ideal planting time for most trees and shrubs as they are not actively growing and there will be less likelihood of stress to the plant. However, it is best to avoid planting in waterlogged or frozen ground.

English Woodlands Awarded 'Plant Healthy' Certification - an industry scheme, independently audited, designed to improve and recognise good biosecurity practice in the UK horticultural industry.

We wish all our customers a very Happy and Healthy New Year. We are Open our normal hours, we are encouraging pre-orders and are following Covid secure procedures on the nursery.

Bare root plants are available from November to March: field grown and dug up when dormant, they are an economical and effective way of planting new hedges aswell as gapping up existing ones.