Native Heal Foragers Hedge – The Living Hedgerow Collection -9

Native Heal Foragers Hedge – The Living Hedgerow Collection -9

£64.95
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Native Heal Foragers Hedge – The Living Hedgerow Collection -9

Native Heal Foragers Hedge – The Living Hedgerow Collection -9

£64.95
Create a garden that grows richer with every year: a place of blossom, berries, fragrant petals, birdsong, and family harvests.
The Native Heal Foragers Hedge is our most abundant collection of 9 flowering hedging plants, meticulously designed for gardeners who are ready to establish a diverse, biologically rich heritage landscape. This seasonally curated bundle serves as a living, edible boundary that seamlessly combines structural integrity with historical folk medicine, visual majesty, and deep ecological purpose.
Important Seasonal Shipping Notice
To ensure maximum planting success, despatch takes place exclusively during the dormant season from November to February. Shipping bare-root plants while they are asleep prevents transplant shock, locks in moisture, and guarantees an explosion of root development and lush green foliage come spring.

 

Why Grow the Native Heal Foragers Hedge?
  • Substantial Heritage Boundary: Creates a dense, structurally sound mixed hedgerow that naturally screens your property while offering centuries-old timeless beauty.
  • Biodiversity Powerhouse: Maximizes seasonal blossom, fruit, native nuts, and dense shelter to attract songbirds, critical pollinators, and beneficial wildlife.
  • The Perfect Hybrid Ecosystem: Beautifully balances rigid, defensive hedge plants with delicate, fragrant wild roses and highly productive culinary harvest species.
  • A Beautiful Long-Term Garden Legacy: Establishes deep roots that will serve your family, your kitchen apothecary, and the local climate for decades to come.
Plants Included This Season
Each collection is seasonally curated from the healthiest field-grown plants available. A deliberate combination of structural hedgerow foundations and prolific flowering plants, the exact varieties currently included in your 9-pack are:
  • Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) x2: The structural backbone of the classic British countryside hedge. Provides dense, protective thorns for nesting birds and heavy white spring blossoms.
  • Elder Tree (Sambucus nigra) x1: A fast-growing forage giant famed for fragrant summer flower clusters and clusters of rich, immune-boosting black autumn berries.
  • Sweet Briar Rose (Rosa eglantaria / Rosa rubiginosa) x1: A beautifully erect, spiny shrub that bursts into showy deep pink summer flowers with a crisp, apple-like foliage fragrance.
  • Dog Rose (Rosa canina) x1: The classic wild scrambling rose, offering large, pale pink-to-white petals followed by striking red winter hips.
  • Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus) x1: Features lace-cap white summer flowers, translucent jewel-like red berries, and breathtaking, fiery autumn leaf color.
  • White Willow (Salix alba) x1: Brings elegant texture, fast-growing resilience, and highly flexible structural support to the landscape.
  • Small-Leaved Lime Tree (Tilia cordata) x1: A historic, stately inclusion that yields beautifully fragrant summer blossoms heavily loved by honeybees.
Plant Information
Growing Guide

Specifications & Quick Care Guide

  • Planting Distance: Space plants roughly 33cm apart in a single row for a dense 3-meter hedge line, or stagger them in a double-row zig-zag for an extra-thick wildlife barrier.
  • Soil & Light Tolerance: Highly adaptable native species that will thrive in clay, loam, or sandy soils. Plant in full sun to partial shade.
  • Easy Planting: Dig a trench deep enough to fully accommodate the bare roots. Plant up to the original soil mark on the stem, firm the earth gently with your heel to remove air pockets, and water deeply. Apply a thick layer of mulch to lock in winter moisture.
Uses and Benefits

Traditional & Ecological Uses

  • The Countryside Apothecary: Historically, Hawthorn and Elder have been revered as cornerstones of folk medicine. From traditional heart-supportive herbalism to soothing respiratory syrups made from cooked elderberries, this hedge is a functional kitchen medicine chest.
  • The Wartime Vitamin Lifeline: The Sweet Briar and Dog Rose varieties produce brilliant orange-red hips that persist well into winter. These hips are famously rich in Vitamin C. During the hardships of World War II when imported citrus fruits were blockaded, the British relied heavily on wild harvested rose hips for vital nutrition, giving rise to the famous saying: “We are getting by on our hips and hops.”
  • Predator Protection & Habitat: The dense, overlapping growth styles of Hawthorn and spiny roses form a highly secure natural barrier, guarding small songbirds against predators while feeding over 150 species of local insects.

🍳 Culinary & Foraging Uses

  • Immune-Boosting Syrups & Teas: Steep the vibrant winter rose hips into vitamin-dense herbal teas—a single cup provides an adult's minimum daily requirement of Vitamin C (always scrape out the inner seed hairs before brewing). Simmer autumn elderberries into rich, protective winter cordials.
  • Artisanal Cordials & Preserves: Harvest creamy, flat-topped elderflower heads in early summer to infuse sweet syrups and sparkling homebrews. In autumn, utilize the high-pectin red haws from your Hawthorn trees to thicken rustic hedgerow jams and preserves.
  • Edible Blossoms & Vinegars: The fragrant petals of your wild roses can be harvested in mid-summer to flavor artisanal salads, craft floral vinegars, or decorate home-baked pastries.
When will I get my order?

Delivery & Shipping Information

We take great care to ensure your plants arrive in pristine condition, ready to thrive in your garden. Because this collection consists of premium, field-grown bare-root plants, our shipping schedule aligns perfectly with nature’s natural cycle.📅 The Dormant Shipping Window: November to FebruaryTo guarantee the highest survival rate and zero transplant shock, all orders placed today are securely reserved for despatch during the winter dormant season (November through February).

  • Chronological Dispatch: Orders are fulfilled and shipped in the order they are received starting in November.
  • Real-Time Tracking: As soon as your plants leave our nursery, you will receive a courier tracking link via email so you can monitor your delivery directly to your doorstep.
  • Order Updates: We will keep you updated via email if severe weather (like deeply frozen nursery ground) temporarily shifts your specific dispatch week.

📦 How Your Plants Arrive

  • Expertly Packaged: Your bare-root trees and shrubs are carefully lifted from our growing fields, and their root systems are wrapped in moisture-retaining materials to keep them safe and hydrated during transit.
  • Eco-Friendly Insulated Packs: We use minimal, sustainable packaging designed to protect the plants from temperature fluctuations without generating unnecessary plastic waste.

🏡 Delivery Options & Rates

  • Standard Delivery: Delivers across the UK mainland via our trusted carbon-conscious couriers.
  • No Contact Delivery: You do not need to be home for delivery. You can specify a "safe place" (e.g., behind a garden gate, with a neighbor, or in a porch) during checkout so your roots stay out of the wind and frost until you retrieve them.

⏱️ Upon Arrival: What to DoBare-root plants are highly resilient but should not be left packaged indefinitely.

  • If you are ready to plant within 7 to 10 days, store the wrapped bundle in a cool, dark, frost-free place (like a shed or garage). Keep the roots damp.
  • If your ground is frozen solid or snow-covered when they arrive, keep them sheltered until a brief thaw allows you to dig.
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