Description
🌲 Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging Conifers – 40–60cm – Fast Growing Evergreen Privacy Hedge Plants
Create a beautiful, dense and attractive evergreen hedge with our Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging Conifers, supplied at approximately 40–60cm tall from Meredith Nurseries.
Green Leylandii – Chamaecyparis lawsoniana – is our range of attractive evergreen hedging conifers, ideal for creating natural garden boundaries, privacy screens and year-round greenery.
These young hedging plants are supplied barerooted, without nursery pots, offering an economical way to establish a new hedge, particularly along longer garden boundaries.
Whether you’re looking to improve garden privacy, create a natural alternative to fencing or establish an attractive evergreen boundary, our 40–60cm Green Leylandii plants are a practical choice.
📦 Minimum Order: 20 Plants
A minimum purchase of 10 plants applies to this product. Orders of fewer than 10 plants cannot be accepted.
🌿 Why Choose Green Leylandii Hedging?
🌲 Fast-Growing Evergreen Hedging – Under favourable conditions, growth can reach approximately 60–90cm per year once established, although actual growth varies.
🏡 Excellent Privacy Screening – Dense green foliage helps create a natural screen between gardens and neighbouring properties.
📏 40–60cm Supplied Height – Young hedging plants suitable for establishing new garden boundaries.
🌱 Bareroot Plants – Supplied without nursery pots, offering an economical seasonal planting option.
💚 Year-Round Greenery – Attractive evergreen foliage throughout the seasons.
☀️ Versatile Growing Conditions – Suitable for full sun or partial shade and most well-drained garden soils.
✂️ Suitable for Regular Trimming – Can be maintained as a neat, formal evergreen hedge.
🌳 Ideal for Larger Projects – Excellent for garden boundaries, long hedgerows and screening projects.
📏 Plant Specifications
🌿 Product: Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging
🌲 Botanical name: Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
📏 Supplied height: Approximately 40–60cm
🌱 Supplied as: Bareroot plants without pots
💚 Foliage: Evergreen green
☀️ Position: Full sun or partial shade
🌍 Soil: Most reasonably fertile, well-drained garden soils
🌳 Growth habit: Upright evergreen conifer
✂️ Maintenance: Regular trimming recommended
🍂 Planting season: Generally November to March, subject to suitable weather and stock availability
🌱 How Many Green Leylandii Plants Will I Need?
For a dense evergreen hedge, we generally recommend planting approximately 2 plants per metre, spaced around 50cm apart.
| Hedge Length | Plants Required |
|---|---|
| 5 metres | 10 plants |
| 10 metres | 20 plants |
| 15 metres | 30 plants |
| 20 metres | 40 plants |
| 25 metres | 50 plants |
| 50 metres | 100 plants |
These quantities are approximate and based on a single-row hedge with 50cm spacing.
Allow sufficient space for the mature hedge and ongoing maintenance.
🪴 How to Plant Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging
Correct planting is essential for establishing a healthy evergreen hedge.
Bareroot conifers require particular care because their exposed roots can dry out quickly.
🌱 Basic Planting Instructions
- Prepare the planting area by removing weeds and loosening the soil.
- Keep the exposed roots covered and moist before planting.
- Dig a hole wide enough to accommodate the roots naturally.
- Position the plant at approximately its original growing depth.
- Carefully backfill with soil and gently firm around the roots.
- Water thoroughly immediately after planting.
- Apply suitable mulch to help retain moisture.
- Continue watering during dry weather while the plants establish.
Important: Plant bareroot conifers promptly after delivery and avoid frozen or waterlogged ground.
📖 Read Our Complete Green Leylandii Planting Guide
For detailed advice covering Green Leylandii bareroot plants from 40–60cm through to 90–120cm, including planting distances, watering, pruning and aftercare, visit our dedicated planting guide.
👉 How to Plant Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging – Complete UK Planting Guide
Our guide explains how to prepare the ground, protect the roots, plant correctly and maintain your new evergreen hedge.
🌿 Help Your New Hedge Establish with Empathy After Plant Evergreen
When planting new Green Leylandii hedging conifers, correct watering and healthy soil conditions are particularly important.
For customers wanting to support root establishment, we also recommend considering Empathy After Plant Evergreen, a specialist plant-care product containing rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial bacteria.
🌱 Benefits of Empathy After Plant Evergreen
🌿 Root Establishment Support – Designed to support healthy root development.
🍄 Mycorrhizal Fungi – Helps encourage beneficial relationships between roots and soil fungi.
🌱 Beneficial Bacteria – Supports a healthy root-zone environment.
💧 Nutrient and Water Uptake – Mycorrhizal associations can help plants access nutrients and moisture under suitable conditions.
🌲 Suitable for Evergreen Planting – Developed for use with evergreen plants, trees and shrubs.
👉 Buy Empathy After Plant Evergreen – Rootgrow & Beneficial Bacteria
Always follow the product manufacturer’s application instructions. Root treatments are not a substitute for correct planting, watering and aftercare.
💧 Watering and Aftercare
Newly planted Green Leylandii need adequate moisture while their roots establish.
💧 Water thoroughly after planting.
☀️ Check soil moisture regularly during warm and dry weather.
🌱 Keep the root zone moist without allowing the ground to become waterlogged.
🍂 Apply mulch to help retain moisture and reduce weed competition.
🌲 Continue monitoring your hedge throughout its first growing season.
Bareroot evergreen plants can be particularly sensitive to moisture stress, so careful watering is essential.
✂️ Pruning and Hedge Maintenance
Regular trimming helps encourage dense growth and keeps your Green Leylandii hedge looking neat and attractive.
✂️ Allow newly planted bareroot conifers time to establish before heavy pruning.
🌿 Lightly trim suitable new side growth once plants are growing strongly.
🌲 Maintain a slightly tapered shape to allow sunlight to reach lower branches.
⚠️ Avoid cutting deeply into old, bare brown wood, as conifers of this type generally do not regenerate reliably from it.
🐦 Always check for active bird nests before trimming.
🚚 Minimum Order for Delivery – 20 Plants
🌱 Our Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging Conifers are priced and sold individually, but a minimum quantity of 20 plants must be purchased per order for delivery.
📦 You can order 20, 21, 22 or more plants, depending on your requirements.
🚚 Orders containing fewer than 20 plants cannot be dispatched.
Please note: The advertised price is per plant, not for a pack of 20.
📦 Important Product Information
🌱 Supplied as 40–60cm bareroot hedging plants without nursery pots.
🍂 Bareroot plants are seasonal and generally supplied during the cooler planting months.
💧 Roots must be protected from drying out before planting.
📏 Plant heights are approximate and may vary naturally.
🌲 Plants may vary in shape, colour and fullness depending on the growing season.
📸 Image Disclaimer: Main images may be AI-generated and show established plants for illustration purposes. Actual supplied plants will be younger bareroot specimens.
🌲 Why Buy from Meredith Nurseries?
At Meredith Nurseries, we offer a wide range of evergreen hedging plants, conifers, shrubs and garden plants for customers throughout the UK.
Our Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging Conifers are an economical option for customers wanting to establish an attractive evergreen garden boundary.
🌱 Don’t forget: Read our Green Leylandii Planting Guide and consider Empathy After Plant Evergreen to support your planting project.
🌲 Order your 40–60cm Green Leylandii Bareroot Hedging Conifers from Meredith Nurseries and start creating your new evergreen hedge today!
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