Hedging plants
Thanks to one of the most highly developed hedging plant sourcing systems of any plant centre, if we don't have the garden plant you need in stock we almost always know a garden centre which has. More and more landscape architects are specifying hedging plants (and other landscape project plants) but Johnsons of Whixley is one of the few growers in the UK to grow them on any scale.
A hedging plant can be planted and trained in such a way as to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area. Hedging plants like trees used to separate a road from adjoining fields or one field from another.
History of hedging plants
The development of hedging plants over the centuries is preserved in their structure. The first hedging plants enclosed land for crops during the Neolithic Age. Prehistoric farms were of about 5 to 10 hectares, with fields about 0.1 hectares for hand cultivation. Some hedging plants date from the Bronze and Iron Ages, 2000–4000 years ago, when traditional pattern of landscape became established. Other hedging plants were grown during the Medieval field rationalisations. More hedging plants originated in the industrial boom of the 18th and 19th centuries, when heaths and uplands were enclosed.
If you’re interested in the hedging plants Johnsons has to offer, don’t hesitate to contact us.