Leylandi Cypress Health

[maybelateron]

17 hours ago, Hodge said:

Post up the pictures in a couple of years of them being maintained, I'd like to see them......well that's if they are still alive the more you try to control them the more they grow, then you try to control them and they grow, and grow and grow and grow.....

And the more you trim them the more chance of rod spider mite coming along (in my experience anyway)

[Stere]

 

 

Terrible hedge plant imo due to not sprouting from old wood.

 

This means many hedges get bigger and wider each year as its very hard to maintain the same size without it going bare/brown.

 

Least with laurel you can coppice to ground a it will come back fresh looking.....

 

Dunno why people don't choose yew instead, maybe  they are scared off poisoning the dog or something with the trimmings....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 7, 2022 by Stere

[MattyF]

I didn't remove the hessian around the root ball no. I read its biodegradable and should stay on.

I would of removed it, your encouraging potential root girdling which could kill the tree in later life or cause large areas of die back , slowing down the roots being able to grow and support the tree itself in the early stages is not good , I see a lot of poorly performing and young dead trees which still have it on and I'm convinced it's caused there decline..