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 ...

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 ...

laurel and privet hedges, seeing how long it takes and how easy it is to use. With cordless hedge trimmers, we also check how long the battery lasts and how many metres of hedge we could cut in this ...

Many caterpillars only eat the leaves of one kind of plant, so planting a range of species in a hedge, such as hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, barberry, beech, spindle and privet, will encourage a ...

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 ...

laurel and privet hedges, seeing how long it takes and how easy it is to use. With cordless hedge trimmers, we also check how long the battery lasts and how many metres of hedge we could cut in this ...