Thuja Plicata Atrovirens hedging plants or Western Red Cedar are great for giving coverage quickly growing at up to 60cm a year, but without getting out of hand, they may be kept at any size from 150cm up to several metres with a single trim each autumn – twice a year for a sharper and more formal look. For more information, please read our article on when to trim your thuja hedge.

Thuja hedging conifers have distinctive foliage, if you look closely the coniferous leaves are arranged in flattened sprays and when crushed they give off a pleasant fruity scent. Thuja Plicata ‘Atrovirens’ has rich, glossy deep green foliage and makes a splendid evergreen hedge or screen.

Thuja Plicata Atrovirens hedging plants will regenerate if cut back hard, even into the older brown wood, a really useful feature where a Thuja hedge has grown too large. Thuja is a popular alternative to Green Leylandii which is faster growing but less manageable when fully grown, and does not re grow if cut back hard.

Grow Thuja in any soil, these tough plants will thrive in thinner sandy and chalky soils as well as clay, in fact any soil that does not become waterlogged during wet spells.

We grow Thuja Atrovirens in a very wide selection of sizes including pot grown hedging that can be planted all year round without root disturbance.

The root ball Thuja Plicata Atrovirens hedging plants on this page have been grown in the fields on our nursery for several years at extra wide spacings to produce beautiful large bushy plants – these are perfect for instant impact from the moment of planting. They are available when dormant from October until late April when we lift them with our specialist machine with the soil and immediate root system which is wrapped in hessian mesh. (Simply plant them as supplied, the mesh rots away soon after planting)

Our instant hedging Thujas are supplied in convenient one metre lengths and are available in heights of up to 200cm. These give instant privacy from the moment they are planted, the perfect hedging solution where waiting for your new hedge to grow is not an option!

For any other questions about instant Thuja hedging or any other plants in our range, please do call our team of friendly hedging experts on 01580 765600.

Delivery leadtimes update – April 2025

Spring is our busiest time of year and we are working through orders as fast as we can to get your plants delivered. To give you an accurate idea of when your order will arrive, these are the current leadtimes (delivery is 1-2 days after despatch):

– Orders containing only bare roots – despatch within 5 working days.

– Orders containing only root balls, or root balls and bare roots – despatch within 10 working days.

– All orders containing potted plants – despatch within 14 working days.

Delivery is free for most orders above our free delivery thresholds, these are displayed above our prices in the product listings and summarized below. If you don’t need that many plants it’s not a problem, you can choose to pay our delivery charge and only order what you need.

Delivery is convenient – no signature is required so you don’t need to wait in, we will leave your parcel in the safe place that you nominate.

Delivery is fast – because we pick orders daily from our own growing beds your plants only travel the small hop to our packing shed before being sent to you, they are usually delivered within 5-7 working days.

Delivery is reliable – we have been selling and delivering Hedging Plants to our customers nationwide since 1992. We have a lot of experience in packing them safely and only use tried and tested delivery partners.

Smaller Plants (Parcel Delivery)

Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)

Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)

Exceptions to our delivery charges are Scottish Highland and Isle of Wight delivery areas where we need to charge a little extra to cover the cost of deliveries to these outlying areas. We don’t currently delivery to other offshore addresses including Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

Tall plants over 2.5 metres have to be delivered by our own specialised transport, our delivery area is limited to mainland England and Wales only.

Please note there is a minimum order value of £50 for orders containing smaller plants and £250 for orders containing heavier plants

Complete delivery information can be viewed on our Delivery Information page