Save some money and get a better quality plants
Lots of trees and a number of shrubs/fruit bushes can be planted as bare rooted plants between the end of September until the end of March with the ideal time being before Xmas.
Bare root plants are grown in a field and dug up for transplantation in the dormant season, which deciduous plants thats the period between the leaves dropping and the buds on the plant re-shooting in the spring.
The period before Xmas is best for planting bare root plants because the plants are dormant the temperature has dropped but the soil is still warm allowing the plants to develop new roots.
As will most rules in gardening it relies on the weather sometime the autumn is late delaying the start of the dormant season sometimes the autumn is early
Bare rooted plants are often better plants than pot grown plants and cost less due to the fact a lot go growers and garden centres simply buy bare root plants pot them up and sell them in the spring at a premium
Bareroot hedging plants – need to be planted before Xmas because the loss of plants increases greatly for plants planted after xmas.
Beech
Purple beech
Hornbeam
Crataegus
Yew ( taxus ) root wrapped
Box hedging plants root wrapped
Hazel
Field maple
Privet
Bareroot Trees – Most trees are available as bare rooted or root wrapped with sizes ranging from single stem whips to semi mature trees. Included but not limited to the following.
Prunus Avium Stella Cherry Trees
English Oak
Beech
Blackthorn
Acer campestre field maple
Lime trees ( sorbus )
amelanchier
Alnus Glutinosa
liquidambar
corkscrew willow
Willow
Hornbeam
Acer
Ash
Bareroot shrubs – a smaller range of shrubs are available bareroot plants
Rosa rugosa ‘Rubra’ (Pink)
Rosa rugosa ‘Alba’ (White)
Berberis thunbergii hedge plants
Alnus glutinosa
Cornus sanguinea hedging
Cornus stolonifera ‘Flaviramea’
Cornus alba
Cornus alba ‘Sibirica’
Viburnum opulus
Prunus laurocerasus ( Root Wrapped )
Amelanchier lamarckii
Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood Gold’
Ribes sanguineum ‘King Edward VII’ hedge plants
Euonymus europaeus
Sambucus nigra Black Lace
parrotia persica
Tamarix Parviflora tetrandra
Bare root soft fruit
Apple
Pear
Cherry
Nectarine
Medlar
Crab apple
Bare root Soft fruit – better quality plants available as bareroot plants
Blackberry
Raspberry
Blackcurrant
Gooseberry
