Transform your home or business: Create instant privacy and security with mature trees, hedges and shrubs

Most of us want our gardens to be a place of beauty, of relaxation, as well as of fun and activity in the security and privacy of our own homes. However, this feeling of privacy and security is not always so easy to achieve, particularly when homes are in close proximity to one another and overlooking windows can make you feel like you’re living in a goldfish bowl. Even worse, if security becomes an issue and you start to worry about the safety of your family and property, home just doesn’t feel the same any more.

Wykeham Mature Plants offers the ideal solution for transforming your landscape. Supplying the trade and public for over 45 years, the 150 acre nursery has an extensive range of trees, shrubs, hedging and screening plants, giving you the freedom to select the correct plants to solve your problem.

Staff at Wykeham are experts in providing customers with instant screening for privacy and security, whether the job requires carefully selected trees, mature hedging, or plants clipped or trained specifically to address the issues on site, and their professionally executed design and planting services are available to both private and commercial clients.

If you need help or inspiration, site visits are available so you can discuss your requirements with one of the experienced horticulturists to help you achieve guaranteed results with instant hardy plants, with expert guidance given not only in selecting the right plants, but also in how to look after them on an ongoing basis. All of the rootballed and container-grown plants come with a 12-month guarantee, subject to aftercare according to the guidance given, but if the team at Wykeham also plant them for you, this guarantee will then be extended to three years.

Plants at Wykeham are grown for instant results. There is a wide range of large plants suitable for hedging and screening grown in containers for planting all year round, however the traditional time for planting trees and hedging is November to March, when the range available increases dramatically with field-grown stock, grown here in Yorkshire and PlantHealthyTM certified, so guaranteed to be fully hardy and free from imported diseases.

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Popular plants used for high level screening include evergreen shrubs, such as Laurel, Holly or Portuguese Laurel, trained as “standards”, in that they are grown so that they have a tall clear stem of 5ft, 6ft or more, so that the leafy growth stands above the normal 6ft height of a fence panel to screen off unwanted views or intrusive neighbouring windows.

Another unusual solution to privacy problems might be the use of “pleached” trees. Pleaching is when a tree or large shrub is trained horizontally on tiers or fanned out on a flat panel, above a tall clear stem, to give a two-dimensional effect, rather like a narrow hedge on a stick! This allows dense screening above a wall or fence without taking up as much space as a solid hedge or unclipped tree might. With decades of professional experience to draw from, the nurserymen at Wykeham can produce pleached trees in a range of different varieties and species to suit the requirements of the customer and of the growing conditions.

Wykeham Mature Plants can be found clearly signposted from the A170 approximately seven miles west of Scarborough. Opening times are Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm (for personal attention it is recommended to pre-book an appointment). For further information, call 01723 862406, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.wykehammatureplants.co.uk .