Hedge Planting & Garden Screening in Newbury
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Newbury Landscaping plants hedges and privacy screening across Newbury and West Berkshire — from native mixed hedging along village boundaries to pleached trees lifting privacy above a fence line in overlooked town gardens.
A hedge is the only boundary that gets better every year, and chalk country grows good ones: hawthorn, beech, yew and laurel all take happily to our alkaline ground. Every planting scheme is priced as a fixed written figure after a free visit.
The right hedge for the job
Native mixed hedging
Hawthorn, blackthorn, hazel, field maple and dog rose planted as bare-root whips in a double staggered row — the traditional West Berkshire field boundary, brilliant for wildlife and surprisingly cheap per metre.
Cherry laurel
The fast evergreen screen: dense, glossy and quick to 2m+. Planted at 600–900mm centres from container stock, it closes a gap in two to three seasons.
Beech & hornbeam
The smart formal choice — beech holds its copper winter leaf, hornbeam tolerates heavier wet ground. Both clip to crisp faces.
Pleached trees
Hornbeam or photinia trained on frames above a 1.8m fence line — screening upstairs windows without stealing garden width.
Hedge planting prices in Newbury
| Hedge | Guide price (2026) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Native mixed, bare-root whips | £18 – £35 per metre | Planted Nov–Mar, double row |
| Laurel screen, 1.2–1.5m stock | £90 – £160 per metre | Instant presence, evergreen |
| Beech/hornbeam, 1.2m stock | £60 – £110 per metre | Formal, clipped |
| Pleached trees, planted | £450 – £850 per tree | Frame-trained, incl. staking |
2026 planted guide prices including ground preparation, compost and mulch. Bare-root seasons are limited — book autumn planting by late summer.
Planting so the hedge actually establishes
Bare-root stock — the cheapest and often best-establishing way to plant a hedge — only moves between November and March. Container-grown laurel and pleached trees plant most of the year, though autumn remains best on our fast-draining chalk. Every hedge we plant gets a properly dug trench rather than slit-planting, organic matter worked into the backfill, a thick mulch to hold moisture, and rabbit guards where the field edge makes them necessary — which around Lambourn and Great Shefford is most of the time. Follow RHS guidance and cut new native hedging back hard in its first spring and it thickens from the base; skip that and you get a leggy row of trees instead of a hedge. Where mature trees need reducing before new screening goes in, that crown work is done to BS 3998, the British Standard for tree work.
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