Is this Leylandii tree dead?

[MatP]

Hello all. I cut this Leylandii tree down a few months ago because the roots were near a drain. Can anyone confirm it's dead, if not how should I go about doing this in the easiest way?

[Mick Dempsey]

It’s dead.

[Husqvarna King]

Yeah thats Friar Tucked

[Stubby]

Its pining for the fjords 🙂

[MatP]

thanks all

[peds]

Lads! Hold your horses!

 

I've been taming an escaped griselinia hedge yesterday and today. The homeowner, a builder, arrived midmorning to grab his trailer with, I think, a plumber's mate in tow. He, the plumber's mate, started chatting about the relative merits and complaints of the different species of hedge. At least you can bring griselinia back under control, I told him, after he complained about how quickly it grows. Not like leylandii which, as we well know, has to be removed if it manages to escape. You'll never get a hedge back, I tell him, because if you cut past the green and into the brown, it won't grow again. 

"Yes it will." He replies. 

Err...

"I cut back a leylandii hedge with the flail mower, right down. It grew back fine."

Umm, are you sure it was a leylandii? I ask.

"Oh yes."

 

So there you have it. Don't worry about going past the green, it'll grow back just fine.

[sime42]

Bugger! So we've all got it all wrong all these years. Either that or your was talking about Yew.

 

 

[spudulike]

Probably a thuja and not leylandii....or anything else if his knowledge of nature is like 95% of the UK population.

I was asked what a blackbird looked like once when we heard its warning call. My response....bird like and black