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Plant a little shade for later

There's an old saying that the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago — and the second best time is today. From graceful ornamentals to fruit you'll actually eat and hedging by the metre, here's where your garden's future grows up.

Sunlight filtering through tall green trees

Bare-root vs pot-grown

Which should you buy?

Bare-root trees are lifted while dormant (roughly November to March) and sold without soil. They're cheaper, lighter to post, and establish brilliantly — the budget-friendly way to plant a whole hedge or orchard. The catch: you have to plant them in season.

Pot-grown trees come ready in a container and can go in the ground any time of year, even in full leaf. They cost a little more but give you flexibility and an instant bit of presence. Not sure which suits you? Tell us your timeline and we'll point you the right way.

Ornamental trees

Structure, shade and a bit of drama

Chosen to stay garden-sized so they won't crowd the patio or trouble the foundations. Beauty without the regret.

Tall silver birch trees with white bark Fast grower

Silver Birch

Whispery leaves and ghost-white bark that glows in winter. A graceful giant that keeps a polite footprint.

$39.00Add
A flowering tree covered in pink blossom Spring show

Ornamental Cherry

A cloud of pink blossom in April, fiery leaves in autumn. Two seasons of show-stopping colour.

$44.00Add
A Japanese maple with deep red leaves For pots

Japanese Maple

Lacy, fiery foliage and a compact habit that's perfectly happy in a large pot on the patio.

$48.00Add
A rowan tree laden with red berries Wildlife magnet

Rowan (Mountain Ash)

Creamy spring flowers, jewel-red autumn berries and a flock of grateful birds. A native all-rounder.

$37.00Add

Fruit trees

Homegrown, hand-picked, pie-ready

All grafted onto compact rootstocks, so they stay manageable and start cropping fast. Most are self-fertile or easily paired.

An apple tree branch heavy with red apples Heritage

Heritage Apple

Crisp, old-fashioned apples on a patio-sized tree. Pollinator-friendly, pie-ready and built to last decades.

$45.00Add
Ripe pears hanging from a branch Self-fertile

Conference Pear

Reliable, sweet and juicy — and it'll crop happily on its own. The easiest pear for a first-time orchard.

$46.00Add
Plums ripening on a tree Heavy cropper

Victoria Plum

Britain's favourite plum for good reason — sweet, golden-fleshed and so generous you'll be giving them away.

$47.00Add
A potted lemon tree with fruit Patio star

Patio Cherry

A dwarf cherry that fruits in a big pot and dazzles in blossom. Net it before the birds beat you to it.

$49.00Add

Hedging by the metre

Privacy, shelter and birdsong

Tell us your run length and we'll work out exactly how many plants you need for a lush, gap-free hedge. Sold in tidy bundles of five.

A neatly trimmed evergreen hedge By the metre

Evergreen Privacy Hedge

Dense, year-round green for screening and shelter. Fast to establish and easy to keep crisp.

$24.00Add
A mixed native hedgerow Wildlife haven

Native Mixed Hedge

Hawthorn, hazel and friends — blossom, berries and a five-star hotel for nesting birds and bees.

$22.00Add
A formal box hedge edging a garden bed Formal

Low Box-Style Edging

Tidy, clip-able and classic for framing beds and paths. Slow, steady and beautifully behaved.

$26.00Add
A beech hedge holding copper leaves in winter Year-round

Copper Beech Hedge

Holds its coppery leaves right through winter for colour and privacy when everything else is bare.

$25.00Add

Flowering shrubs

The backbone of a border

Low-fuss, high-reward shrubs that earn their keep with flowers, scent and a magnet-like pull on the bees.

A shrub covered in pink blooms Show-off

Blossom Shrub

A cloud of spring colour that draws every bee on the block. Low fuss, high reward, hard to kill.

$31.00Add
A lavender bush in full purple bloom Fragrant

English Lavender

Silver foliage, purple spikes and a scent that hums with bees all summer. Loves a hot, dry spot.

$12.00Add
A hydrangea with large blue flower heads Long flowering

Hydrangea

Big, billowing blooms from midsummer to autumn that even dry beautifully for the mantelpiece.

$28.00Add
A buddleia with butterflies Butterfly bush

Buddleia

Honey-scented plumes that butterflies cannot resist. Vigorous, cheerful and brilliant for a wild corner.

$18.00Add

Planting guide

Give a tree the best start in four steps

Get these right and your tree will largely look after itself. Water is the part everyone forgets.

Dig a square hole

Make it as deep as the roots and twice as wide. Square corners encourage roots to spread rather than circle.

Loosen & position

Tease out the roots, set the tree at the same depth it grew before, and back-fill with the soil you dug out.

Firm, stake & water

Heel the soil in gently, add a low stake for top-heavy trees, then water in well to settle the roots.

Mulch & keep watering

Ring it with mulch (not touching the trunk) and water weekly through the first dry year. That's the secret.

Planning a hedge or orchard?

Send us your measurements and we'll calculate quantities, spacing and the cheapest planting window.

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