Identify Tree

[Rr-k]

Hi 

 

Please can you identify this type of conifer? Do u think I should prune it or just fell it. Its not that big of a garden

[sime42]

I'll preempt what I'm guessing will be the majority of replies on here, and say fell it now and get shot if it! Otherwise you'll be forever fighting it back from overgrowing the garden, and it won't prune well anyway.

 

[Rr-k]

Thanks sime42, what type of confier would u say it is? 

[Mick Dempsey]

Lawson cypress. 

[Rr-k]

27 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Lawson cypress. 

Would you recommend replanting the lawson cypress in a medium sized garden, how often do u need to prune it and how much would u say it costs to prune it? 

 

Thanks

[Stubby]

17 minutes ago, Rr-k said:

Would you recommend replanting the lawson cypress in a medium sized garden, how often do u need to prune it and how much would u say it costs to prune it? 

 

Thanks

my 2 peneth --- I dont think conifers lend them selves to pruning like a deciduous tree does . They tend to become top heavy and ugly . Not the natural form . 

[Rr-k]

Thanks stubby, what tree do u recommend which is evergreen, low maintenance & tall enough to give privacy? 

[Steve Bullman]

2 minutes ago, Rr-k said:

low maintenance & tall enough

low maintenance = slow growing = going to take a while to get tall enough to achieve the desired effect

[Dan Maynard]

Bay.

 

It's not slow growing but you can easily bash it into whatever shape you like.

[Mick Dempsey]

Plant a flowering cherry.

Planted this in 2007/8.

[Stere]

I like bay holm oak holly and yew

 

Dont like the ubiquitous cherry laurel it  looks ugly imo.

 

No to leylandi

 

 

Edited May 11, 2023 by Stere