Practicality Brown

Practicality Brown Ltd (PBL) is an innovative, class-leading company, with divisions operating in the Landscape and Environmental Contracting Sectors.

Overview

Established in 1981, Practicality Brown has divisions in:

Horticulture

Services including supply and installation on instant hedges and screening trees for private gardens to commercial projects for the UK's leading garden designers, landscape architects, civil engineers and property developers. 

Instant hedges  

Practicality Brown have specialised in instant hedge for over 20 years, providing immediate impact and maturity to many private gardens and landscaping projects. Their instant hedges are

• pre grown and sold by the linear metre, rather than as individual plants.

• available to plant all year round

• supplied between 0.8m and 2m high.

As well as the high quality Practical Instant Hedge™ (supplied in 1m long trough bags). Practicality Brown also supply individual hedging plant and hedging elements.

Semi-Mature Trees

As well as the specialised, instant hedge, Practicality Brown also offer a range of other hedging products, large shrubs, topiary, screening and semi-mature trees; root-balled and containerised. In fact everything to present a mature garden finish from their own nursery in Iver, Buckinghamshire. Site visits can be arranged to fully understand the location’s conditions and the developers’ requirements, whether it’s instant privacy, shade, impression or simply screening a neighbour’s window.

Tree Moving

In addition, Practicality Brown has specialist tree-moving equipment and services that can allow developers to re-locate existing trees, fully utilising the development potential of a project, or even redesigning a golf course. With a fleet of machinery and tree spades to suit any site and the experience to move established trees up to 60cm girth, plus supplying hedges and trees, Practicality Brown can complement any development.

Tree Clearance

Practicality Brown are specialist environmental contractors offering tree and vegetation clearance services to the forestry, utility and construction markets. This includes mechanised tree clearance, whole tree chipping, forestry mulching, habitat mitigation, tree surgery, etc. 

Practicality Brown have been operating for over 40 years and today have an enviable reputation for an ability to respond to clients’ land clearance requirements, offering an extensive range of in-house trained resources and specialist equipment backed with health and safety accreditation.