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Red Robin topiary, featuring varieties like Photinia fraseri ‘Red Robin’, Fraseri ‘Carre Rouge’, and Fraseri ‘Pink Marble’, provides stunning and structured additions to any landscape. These plants are celebrated for their vibrant foliage, ease of shaping, and versatility in garden design. Ideal for creating elegant and eye-catching topiaries, these Photinia varieties bring both beauty and functionality to your outdoor space.
Red Robin topiary plants are celebrated for their dense foliage, which allows for precise shaping and intricate designs. Their vibrant and colourful leaves provide year-round visual interest, making them ideal for focal points in garden landscapes. These plants are easy to prune and maintain, ensuring your topiary remains well-defined and vibrant with minimal effort.
Red Robin topiary is significant in garden design for its versatility and aesthetic appeal. These plants can be shaped into various forms, from simple spheres and cones to elaborate animal figures and geometric patterns. This flexibility makes them a popular choice for adding structure and elegance to both formal and contemporary garden designs. Additionally, their dense growth habit provides effective privacy screens and windbreaks.
Photinia fraseri varieties are part of the Rosaceae family, known for their rapid growth and adaptability. Native to Asia, these plants have been widely cultivated across Europe and North America for their ornamental value. Their ability to thrive in different climates and soil conditions makes them a versatile choice for gardeners worldwide. The vibrant foliage of Photinia fraseri ‘Red Robin’ and its hybrids not only adds visual interest but also supports local ecosystems by providing habitats for birds and insects.
Plant Red Robin plants in well-drained soil enriched with organic matter. They thrive in sunny positions but can tolerate partial shade. Regular watering is essential, especially during dry periods, to promote healthy growth. Apply a balanced, slow-release fertiliser in the spring to support development. Regular pruning is crucial for maintaining the shape of your topiary. Prune in late spring or early summer, using sharp shears to trim back new growth and refine the form. Avoid cutting into old wood, as Photinia does not regenerate well from it.
Integrating Red Robin topiary into your garden adds vibrant colour, structure, and elegance. Explore our range of Photinia fraseri varieties at Harrod Outdoors to find the perfect topiary plants for your garden. Our high-quality plants will help you create beautiful, lasting topiary designs that enhance the visual appeal of your landscape.
In our range of hedging, we have plants native from all around the world, in different sizes and colours and so it is important that you choose the best hedge for you and your garden. The hedging plants are available in different densities and root types, all which require different shadings and soil types that will affect the success growth rate of your hedge.
A common mistake by some customers is choosing a hedge purely based on its colours and appearance, without checking if the conditions of their garden are suitable for the hedging. This results in the hedging not growing well and the customer is left disappointed. For example, some gardens are more shaded and so hedging plants like Green Beech and Red Robin wouldn’t be ideal. There are also gardens in open areas where hedging like hornbeam won’t offer any wind protection and so a denser hedging like Leylandii would have been a better choice.
We are very proud of our design product filter on our store page that can help ensure you will receive the perfect hedge for you. The filter works by entering your garden’s information and then giving you the ideal hedging options that are guaranteed to grow well in your garden providing you maintain the hedge following our expert advice.
Hedging is a great alternative to fencing or brick walls for your garden because it adds more colour and nature to your garden, whilst being the most affordable option. Some of our smaller hedging plants can create a brilliant hedge for just under £100 and the hedging will last for years, providing you take our advice on how to maintain the hedge.
By using hedging as an alternative to brick walls and fencing for the boundaries of your garden, you can create the illusion of extra space and they can be used to create patterns and structures that will elevate your garden’s beauty. The hedging, especially our denser species, will still offer amazing privacy for your garden, as well as wind and noise protection.
At Harrods Outdoor, we are passionate about the environment and will always encourage people to make their gardens as green as possible to help our planet and our local wildlife. Planting hedging is a great way to do this as it can provide food and shelter for birds and insects, especially for those in an urban area where the wildlife may struggle to find a home.
Including hedging to your garden can also increase both the appearance and value of your property, as research shows property has a higher price on roads containing hedging and trees. The use of it in a landscaped garden can also attract more buyers for your home.
The technique of planting hedging will differ slightly depending on the root type and the species, but often the process is the same and not too difficult. We have created these step by step instructions below to help you with the process, but as always if you have any further questions feel free to email or ring us for our help.
After care is just as important as this planting process, you need to to ensure that you plants are well watered for the first year or two until the roots go deep enough to maintain enough water by themselves. You can also add more nutrients like bone meal through the first few years to ensure the hedging has a strong growth, but if your soil is already rich in nutrients, this won’t be needed.
With bare root plants it is important to ensure that when you are planting the hedge, the ground is not frozen and if there is a delay when you’re planting them, ensure they are kept warm and the roots are kept moist. When you plant bare root hedging it is a good idea to coat the roots in a rooting gel to help the plant roots grow faster at the start of the growing season. This gel or powder can be found on https://www.ebay.co.uk, https://www.amazon.co.uk or many garden centres as well. When planting root balls you don’t have to move the burlap or net packaging around the roots you can just plant them how they are as the burlap will dissolve over time and decay into nothing but more food for the plant.
As well as this, the planting density should always be correct because roots need enough space to absorb enough nutrients, vitamins and water, but don’t plant them too far away also as you will lose the appearance of a thick hedge. We have provided a recommended planting density for you to follow for each product to ensure you get the best growth possible.
Our larger specimens typically have a lower planting density, around 2 or 3 plants per metre. But for our smaller plants we recommend the planting density to be around 5 to 7 plants per metre. This is because our bigger plants cover a much larger area so there are fewer needed to create the ideal thick hedge you desire. Our larger plants are slightly more expensive than our smaller ones, but it is noteworthy that you will need to plant less larger plants per meter so you can save money by buying less plants in the first place.
We are proud of our efficient delivery service of our hedging, where we take the time to water and feed the plants before they are packaged for delivery to ensure the plants are of the highest standard whilst still keeping our prices low. We always have multiple people working on our website and phones to ensure our customers are always updated and able to have their questions heard. We are also proud of our eco-friendly standards, in which we make sure we re-use our pots, reducing our use of single-use products. Harrods Outdoor actively supports Ecosia, https://www.ecosia.org/, a search engine that funds the planting of trees across the planet to counter the effects of deforestation.