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Help - Over Grown Yew Hedge


Justin Wright
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How hard can I cut back on a Yew Hedge? Looking at the Bible I'm semi- sure that I can do one side a season but would like confirmation.

 

To give an indication, its 8ft across and 14ft tall and stretches the best part of a 100m.

 

Customer wants it back to the furthest point that will not kill it (and therefore I won't lose the rest of the contract).

 

Many thanks,

 

Justin

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Possibly a bit late now, late winter would be best. Be brave and cut it, and advise the client that it will take around 10years to recover.

 

The trouble with cutting one side then the other is that the good side might continue growing and the cut side might not bother. To prevent this I would cut the best sunny side first, so its keen to put that growth back on asap. or just be brave and do it all, but in late winter.

 

General rule of thumb with Yews, be brave and then patient!!!!!!!!

 

Another trick for this year, would be to cut huge holes in the greenery on the sunniest sides or all round and let the light in for whole season. Then once you get some new shoots appearing inside then you can cut it back hard as planned in the winter.

 

Whatever you do, tell them it will take ten years! Then you can keep the rest of the contract for that time at least!

 

If they are that big then the original owner who had them planted obviously had a vision for the future, unfortunatly people don't have that very often anymore. I have just cut some Irish yews back to tall stumps, with a ten year plan to re establish them.

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Your all getting your selves confused...

 

You TRIM yews in summer. Cutting them hard back is a winter thing, and frost wont matter cos there aint any re growth yet! .

 

You can sell clippings for taxol (common lime is right) but not chippings. They only take the trimmings of annually trimmed yews, its only the new growth that is any good. Not the cuttings form a cutting back job. This thread is not about trimming yew hedges.

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We've wacked yew back from 12ft to 2ft and it grow back just as well. When I was a pre-entry student in the Botanic gardens we chopped some very old yew down hard - and slowly (very slowly) you'll see the breaks appearing and it regrows. But it takes years not months to fill out again!

(PS keep any decent logs - it's excellent burning timber, very hot like coal)

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