Bare root trees and shrubs

Save some money and get a better quality plant

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