Beech is the perfect candidate for hedging and has traditionally been used on many large estates it can be grown to almost any height as a hedge or privacy screen and will maintain a good density and tidy shape usually only needing to be clipped once or twice a year over winter beech tends to hold onto most of its dead leaves and sheds them in the spring when the new shoots start to appear helping to keep privacy to a maximum supplied as 50 45 80 cm bareroots 4020 45 31344