An Instant Hedge Is Years in the Making

A fully formed Living Walls™ instant hedge gives your landscape project its intended boundary, screening or structure from the day it is installed. The result is immediate on site, but creating it has taken years.

Before your hedge is ready to leave Twining Valley Nurseries, small individual plants must develop strong root systems, build stocky growth and then grow together to form one dense hedge.

The growing, trimming and shaping have already happened before a Living Walls™ instant hedge reaches your site.

A young hedge plant at the beginning of the growing process.

It begins with small plants

Living Walls™ hedges begin as small, cutting-grown plants. At this stage, they are still individual plants, a long way from the continuous hedge they will eventually become.

After further growth and trimming, the young plant has developed stronger branching and a fuller shape, ready for the next stage.

First, each plant has to become stronger

The young plants are grown in specialised pots that encourage strong, well-developed root systems. They are also trimmed at this stage, encouraging branching to produce stocky plants rather than allowing them simply to grow taller.

Then the hedge begins

Only once the plants are sufficiently developed are they transferred into a metre-long hedge bag. They are trimmed immediately, beginning the shaping that will turn a group of plants into one hedge.

Well-developed plants newly transferred into metre-long hedge bags. Like the individual plants used to form a traditional hedge, they are still separate at this stage. They will now be grown and repeatedly trimmed until the gaps close.

Cutting back brings the plants together

As the plants grow, repeated trimming encourages lateral growth and branching. The gaps gradually close, and the separate plants become a hedge.

Repeated trimming encourages lateral growth, helping the separate plants close the gaps and form one hedge.

Height alone does not make a hedge ready

A Living Walls™ hedge is not judged only by how tall it has grown. It also needs the density, shape and root development expected of a finished hedge.

The foliage must form a continuous hedge, and the root system must be sufficiently established to support it through delivery, installation and establishment on site.

Eventually, the individual plants are no longer the story

By the time the hedge is ready to leave the nursery, the eye no longer sees separate plants. It sees one fully formed length of hedge, ready to join with others on site.

Fully formed hedge lengths ready to leave the nursery and be installed on site.

The hedge arrives ready

Each fully formed Living Walls™ hedge is supplied in a one-metre length. Installed together, the foliage meets to create one continuous hedge.

The result is immediate on site, but it is the final stage of a much longer process. The growing, root development, trimming and shaping have already happened, so the landscape begins with the hedge rather than a row of small plants waiting to become one.

We’ve grown your hedge for you.

Fully formed hedge lengths arriving on site and being moved into position.

The instant hedges provided immediate structure for this landscaped building frontage.

A ready-grown hedge for different landscape needs

Across the wider Living Walls™ range, individual plants are grown and shaped into fully formed hedges, from low hedges that define paths and garden spaces to taller hedges for boundaries, screening and privacy.

Each variety grows at its own rate and develops its own natural form, but the aim remains the same: a dense, fully formed hedge ready to provide structure from the day it is installed.

Planning a hedge?

Tell us where your project is, how many metres of hedge you need, when you need it and what you want the hedge to do. Explore the Living Walls™ range, or contact us and we can help identify suitable options for your site and intended result.