Impact Plants

A well maintained hedge can last for centuries. Indeed old boundary hedges in Britain may be over a thousand years old. But modern garden ...

There are two main reasons to keep a hedge trimmed – to make it look attractive and to make sure it grows dense. If you plant hedging plant...

Growing by the sea can have both advantages and disadvantages. Plants sensitive to cold conditions may be helped by a milder climate than th...

Problems with brown patches on Leyland Cypress hedges seem to be increasingly frequent. Hedges which had grown happily for many years develo...

We sometimes receive enquiries about the legal situation regarding trees in domestic gardens and try to give some basic guidance. The infor...

This has been an exceptionally dry spring in most of the UK. Only the north west has received normal amounts of rain. It has followed a very...

The question of how close to your house to plant a tree is a complicated one. After a dry summer there is usually a rush of claims to insura...