thuja plicata zebrina regeneration timescale?

[Always learning]

Hi folks

 

Been out to look at three thuja plicata zebrina this morning. They are approx 10 years old and were planted about 2 - 2 1/2 feet apart and although they have been trimmed, they have all grown into one. They are about 9 foot tall and the client wants about 3 feet taking off the top and a good trim and shape around the outside with a least 1 1/2 foot coming off where it has grown over the neighbours lawn.

 

They want to keep them as they act as a screen, but they are too big.

 

I think what they imagined the end result to look like and the reality are very different!

 

My questions are:

 

1) Is this too much to take off in one go?

2) How long will it take to green up on the sides and the top?

3) Is early November a good, bad or indifferent time to do them?

4) Any other advice?

 

Cheers, Daz

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

They should shoot well, thuja are a great hedge tree. i wouldnt do both sides at the same time, standard hedge restoration process.

[Always learning]

Thanks

How long do you think it will be before it grows back?

 

Daz