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Fagus (Beech)

We provide a range of Fagus bare root plants, including Fagus sylvatica & Fagus sylvatica purpurea.

Green Beech (Fagus sylvatica) makes one of the best garden hedges, fast-growing, but needing only one cut a year. Although deciduous, beech hedges retain their brown leaves through the winter before they are pushed off by the new leaves in spring.

Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica purpurea) is a handsome, large deciduous tree, with elegant spreading branches and dark purple leaves which turn copper in autumn and are a shimmering bronze in spring. As a hedge, it retains its leaves over winter. With its smooth grey bark and delicate tracery of branches, it is attractive all year round.