Privet has long been a popular hedging plant to provide a fast and dense screen. It is a quick-growing and versatile option for hedges, but one that needs regular pruning to keep it neat and ...

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that your hedge is actually a living, growing, plant. As architectural elements, they can seem ...

admired a garden hedge of gooseberry and currant bushes, the letters “BLM,” for Black Lives Matter, were sheared into a privet. In Walthamstow, birthplace of the 19th-century textile designer ...

It won't be the sort of hedge that you can clip into a neat wall of foliage like leylandii or privet. Source the whips from your local garden centre. Or try a web search; there are a number of ...

Hedge mixes are available from tree nurseries and garden centres. Hawthorn, blackthorn, guilder rose, yew, beech, native privet and field maple are great sources of food and also provide nesting ...