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How to Install Artificial Hedge Panels

Artificial hedge panels are designed for easy, no-specialist DIY fitting — they clip together and fix to almost any surface. This guide covers the full method, whatever you're installing onto: fences, walls, railings or a freestanding frame.

✓ No specialist tools ✓ Any surface ✓ Clip-together panels ✓ DIY in an afternoon

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How artificial hedge panels fit together

Every panel has a flexible mesh backing with male and female connectors along each edge. Panels clip into their neighbours to build a continuous surface, then the whole thing fixes to your chosen surface. There's no special skill involved — if you can use a pair of scissors and cable ties, you can fit them.

Our panels come in two sizes: 50cm × 50cm tiles (4 cover 1m²) and larger 1m × 1m panels (1m² each). Larger panels cover an area faster with fewer joins; smaller tiles are easier to handle and better for fiddly or detailed areas.

What you'll need

Step-by-step installation

The core method is the same wherever you're fitting — only the fixing step changes by surface (covered next).

1. Check the surface is sound

   Whatever you fix to carries the weight of the panels. Make sure fences are stable, posts are firm and walls are sound before you begin. Fix or reinforce anything loose now.

2. Plan your layout

   Work out where panels will sit and which way the foliage "lies" — most panels have a natural direction the leaves fall, so keep it consistent across the whole surface for a uniform look.

3. Clip panels together

   Connect panels edge to edge using the male and female connectors on the mesh backing. Where you can, build up larger sections on the ground first — it's quicker to fix a few joined panels than many single ones.

4. Fix to your surface

   Attach using the right method for your surface (see the next section). Work from one corner, keep the top edge level — a string line helps — and fix at regular intervals so there's no sagging.

5. Join panels seamlessly

   There's no need to stagger or offset the joins — the connectors lock neighbouring panels together so the foliage meets seamlessly, with no visible line between them. Just clip each panel to the next as you go.

6. Trim to fit

   At edges, corners, posts and around obstacles, trim panels to size with strong scissors or secateurs. Cut through the mesh from the back; the foliage springs over to hide the cut line. Cutting a panel down doesn't affect its stability or how it fixes — the trimmed section holds together just as well.

7. Finish and fluff

   Work along the edges tucking foliage so no mesh backing shows, and gently fluff the leaves out to even up the surface. Stand back, spot any thin areas, and fill with offcuts.

Panels clip edge to edge via the connectors on the mesh backing, then fix to your surface.

Fixing by surface type

The clip-together method above stays the same — here's how to attach the panels depending on what you're fitting onto.

Installing on a wall: the batten-and-mesh frame

Masonry is the one surface you can't fix to directly, but the frame method is straightforward and gives the strongest, neatest result:

1. Fix timber battens to the wall

   Screw treated timber battens horizontally across the wall using wall plugs, spaced roughly every 40–60cm. These hold the mesh off the wall and give you something to fix into.

2. Attach galvanised mesh

   Stretch galvanised mesh across the battens and staple or screw it in place, creating an even fixing surface over the whole area.

3. Cable-tie the panels

   Clip your panels together, then cable-tie them to the mesh, trimming to fit as normal. The connectors keep the joins seamless — no need to offset them.

Looking after them once fitted

There's almost nothing to do. The panels are UV-stable, weatherproof and frost-proof, made from UV-stabilised PE that holds its colour year-round. An occasional rinse with the hose clears dust and pollen; that's it — no watering, feeding or trimming. With normal outdoor use you can expect 3–5 years of service.

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