refusing to cut Leylandii tight

[skyhuck]

[peatff]

Leylandii just turn into a row of trees too close together with nothing at the bottom from what I've seen. I was on school gardens when the craze for them started in the 70s and they were planted everywhere as the latest big thing. Now they are the bane of a lot of people's lives having inherited them with a property and ignored them for a few years and facing a big bill to get rid of them. We used to trim them back and they never recovered, not like a Yew hedge and a lot were taken out and replaced with Beech fortunately.

[Mick Dempsey]

Me too, I can't understand what you're talking about.

 

(Quoting Skyhuck's post)

[Mick Dempsey]

Ps, anyone who has cut a lot of these hedges will know what great "safe" spaces they can be for song birds to nest.

[timbernut]

Me too, I can't understand what you're talking about.

 

(Quoting Skyhuck's post)

 

 

What? The self harming hedge joke?

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

No, the cutting holes in à leylandii hedge thing.

[timbernut]

Ah ok, I took it that he meant that was for hedges that had been left a few yrs and the bigger stubs are too exposed at the 'face', with no foliage to in fill, so cut branch right back into hedge and allow greenery to fill the gap from either side. Never done it but can see what he's getting at and think customers may moan about holey (?) hedge

 

 

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

Ps, anyone who has cut a lot of these hedges will know what great "safe" spaces they can be for song birds to nest.

 

Great for bats as well.

[Rob D]

It's hard to win with a conifer hedge - keep it super tight they seem to be vulnerable to patches dying, let them grow tall and no matter what you do the result is an eye sore!

 

 

Bay hedges - that's where it's at! - lovely smell, dense, you can hit them hard and they recover, don't seem to get full of white fly...

[IVECOKID]

Conifer hedges cut once a year , has above they get to tight and brown off . I rake them after cutting them to remove any dead ends which allows them to breathe.

Come to many Coni hedges that have browned off badly and I have raked them and they recover in time . Aphids love them when they are tight has they remain damp .

 

Ste

Edited February 6, 2017 by IVECOKID