Pre-Order Bare Root Trees and Hedging now for first delivery!
Pre-Order Bare Root Trees and Hedging now for first delivery!
Watch this video for simple instructions on how to plant a bare root tree.
Whilst the abnormally wet January at the start of the year curtailed a lot of the scheduled tree planting, the weather has now relented. (more…)
Learn about bare root hedge plants, along with instructions on how to ‘Notch plant’ small bare root plants.
How to plant a bare root hedge
If you don’t intend to set the hedge immediately upon arrival, store the plants in a cool, frost free shed or garage.
When planting out, do not remove the hedging plants from the box or bag. Exposure to sun or drying winds may lead to root desiccation and eventual failure.
Do not dig huge planting pits that require laborious backfilling. If the soil is reasonably good, use the ‘notch’ planting technique. Push your spade 4-6″ into the ground, open up a wide slit and place the root in at the nursery soil mark.
Be sure to ‘heel in’ very tight. This is most important to ensure good root/soil contact. After heeling in, you should have to tug the plant quite hard to remove it.
King and Co recommend using planting protection when planting bare root plants. Each planting site has its own predators such as voles, rabbits, deer. It is important to protect your newly planted plants to ensure they are not attacked. In the instance of rabbits, you could use spiral rabbit guards paired with a bamboo cane for stability.
After completion of planting, mulch the hedge with either; plastic, woodchips or similar to trap moisture in, and prevent growth of weed competition.
We recommend using 5 plants per metre when using our 40-60cm bare rooted hedging plants. The best way is to plant in a double staggered row.
Bare rooted plants should only be planted once they have become fully dormant, which in the UK is between November to March. This can however move by a few weeks depending on the weather.
Good soil to root contact, which is achieved by heeling in the plants firmly.
You can incorporate compost and soil improver in the planting area, one of the most efficient methods to help bare rooted plants grow is to plant in conjunction with a mycorrhizal fungi such as Rootgrow.
Yes. King and Co recommend watering in the plants once planted to settle the soil. Usually the hedge will not need additional watering until late March/April when the weather warms up and the ground begins to dry out.
King and Co are Plant Healthy Certified meaning our plants are sourced, grown and handled in the most careful and bio-secure manner.
Bare root hedging is typically a lower cost solution to creating a new hedge or infilling an existing hedge as opposed to using container grown or rootballed plants.
Photinia is a hugely popular shrub, a common site in UK gardens. It’s easy to see why so many of us plan our gardens to include Photinia due to it’s versatile nature and striking red colour creating all year round interest.
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Monday 27th November –Tuesday 5th December.
Launched in 1975, National Tree Week is celebrating its 48th anniversary this year.
Trees can be purchased in various size and shapes, referred to as forms. Photinia for example can be gown as a multi-stem hedge, ornamental 1/4 standard tree, a pleached tree for screening or in standard form it will mature into a large beautiful centre piece.
Trees of ‘Standard’ form have a straight, single trunk cleared of branches up to approximately 1.8m. For your tree to mature into the perfect standard form make sure you select a tree with a sturdy straight stem, it should be supplied in a sizeable pot.
1/2 standard trees have a single central trunk cleared of branches up to approximately 1.2 – 1.5 meters from the base of the tree. A very attractive classic looking tree shape.
1/4 standard trees are highly decorative, with the single, central trunk cleared of branches up to approximately 1 meter from the base of the tree.
A tree with a single straight trunk with lateral branches extending from the base all the way up.
A single plant, with a number of stems growing from a single trunk near the ground.
‘Pleached’ refers to a tree with a straight stem and typically a flat panel on top, with the flexible shoots trained onto a frame. Commonly used for creating a narrow screen above a fence or garden wall. It can also be used for creating shade and is often used as part of creative garden design. Tress can also be pleached into other shapes, such as boxes, umbrella, spheres etc.
One significant advantage of buying trees and hedging plants ‘bareroot’ is the low price, a bareroot tree can be less than a third of the price of a container grown plant.
(more…)Who wouldn’t be delighted to receive a beautiful Buxus Cone, small Olive Tree or even a full size topiary footballer! (more…)
Learn about Photinia x Fraseri Red Robin.
Plants are being lifted from the ground and our bareroot trees, shrubs and hedge plants are now in stock.
You can buy trees, hedging, shrubs and topiary online by browsing our website.
If you do not see a plant or size that is suitable for you then please call as we stock a wide variety of plants in our tree nursery. It’s worth noting that many other websites sell other people’s stock (i.e. they act as an agent) so you cannot view the products at their own site. At King & Co, all of our advertised plants are available for viewing at our tree nursery in Rayne, near Braintree, situated just over an hours drive out of London.
Our knowledgeable and experienced tree nursery staff are always contactable via phone on 01376 340469 or if you have any questions regarding any of our trees or accessories.
If you cannot see what you require on our website, please complete the enquiry form. We will give it our urgent attention and will get back to you shortly with a solution that meets your needs.
If you are looking for specific evergreen trees, Photinia, Leylandii hedging, Leylandii trees, instant hedging or shrubs, use the search bar at the top of the page
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