Are you tired of seeing your hedges and trees drying out during summer and looking wilted and brown when they should be looking lush and green? Do you want to take action but are unsure where to start? Then look no further – as we supply advanced systems ideally suited for watering hedges and trees, to ensure that your much loved garden thrives all year round.
Our watering systems use highly efficient Permadrip Pro dripline, which is a high-quality heavy duty commercial-grade drip irrigation pipe with sophisticated nozzle structure and thick 1.2mm pipe wall. When the dripline is operating, water will slowly drip from each in-built dripper outlet, travelling straight down to the roots beneath, making it one of the most efficient watering methods available and for this reason saving you money. Another big advantage of dripline is that on the surface the soil will be mainly dry (in contrast to using sprinklers), thus reducing evaporation and weed growth, and the water will travel laterally underground, enabling completely even distribution for the whole area. The advanced drip watering nozzles are pressure compensated to ensure uniform output and are self-flushing to reduce blockages, using an advanced labyrinth system involving a turbulent flow operation. In addition, the dripper nozzles are anti – siphon to prevent debris getting sucked back into the system at the end of the watering cycle.
Watering Hedges
To make watering your hedges as easy as possible we supply all-inclusive hedge watering kits, which contain everything you need – supplied in two different sizes depending on the size of your hedge. As well as including the advanced Permadrip Pro dripline mentioned above, these kits include all anchorage pegs required to secure the dripline in place, a stopend fitting to terminate the run of dripline when it reaches the end of the hedge run, and a tap connector to connect the dripline directly to an outside mains water tap. A hose to dripline connector is also conveniently included if the hedge is located a distance away from the tap and thus requires a hose run to reach it first. Alternatively, you could use 20mm MDPE supply pipe running underground to reach the hedge – thus ensuring that the pipe doesn’t cause an obstruction and that it’s protected from damage and also from frost during winter. If required, we supply a tap connector compression fitting to connect this pipe from the tap, and then once the pipe nears the surface next to the hedge, a compression elbow and Pozilock connector can be used to connect it to the dripline at the start of the hedge run, ensuring that the whole watering system remains invisible, and therefore does not detract from the appearance of your garden. The dripline included within the hedge watering kits includes drippers spaced every 30cm apart, enabling more thorough watering than border dripline, as hedges tend to be thirstier. Regarding hedge dripline layout, it will need to be laid in a single line, running all along the length of the hedge, always as close to the middle of the hedge as possible. If hedges are wider, then two runs of dripline will be required – again running all along the length of the hedge, but in two runs rather than one – each run either side of the hedge, as close to the middle as possible.
Irrigating Trees
Trees consume a lot of water and in urban areas their root zones are constrained, so it is very important to provide water to the trees, We supply dripline with very close dripper spacing at every 15cm apart, designed specifically for this purpose – to enable the most thorough watering, which trees require. Tree dripline will need to be laid in a ring around the base of each tree, to ensure that the tree is thoroughly watered. This is achieved by running 20mm LDPE supply pipe through the middle of the areas of trees, and then teeing off (using Pozilock tees) upon reaching level with each tree base. The dripline will then be connected to the Pozilock tee and will then run around the tree, being capped off with a stopend at the end of the dripline circle. Again, anchorage pegs will be required to secure the dripline in place. As mentioned above, if required, 20mm MDPE supply pipe can be run underground, and compression tees used to tee off when adjacent to each tree – supply pipe running from each underground tee spurring up to connect to the dripline on the surface using a compression elbow and Pozilock connector.
Watering trees in pots
If you have small trees which are planted in pots, therefore being impractical to water using dripline, we can supply individual, tree watering drippers as an alternative. These dippers have a very high water flow output, thus ensuring that typically only one dripper will be required per pot, which helps to keep the watering system neat and discreet. The layout of this system will simply involve 20mm LDPE supply pipe running along the back of the pots (perhaps attached to a fence using pipe clips for example), with the drippers secured into holes that you’ll punch (using a 3mm hand punch) within the pipe wall. The 80cm leads supplied with the drippers will then run from the supply pipe to a stake which will be pushed into the soil of each pot for security. The water will then drip down the stake into the soil – the stake conveniently ensuring that the lead outlets will never get blocked as they are raised well above the soil.
So now you’ve been introduced to the best methods of watering hedges and trees using our highly efficient, advanced watering systems for your hedges and trees, don’t delay – visit our website and order your ideal watering system today!
