Leyland Hedges and Tools.

[kev7937]

Mind you if the cones are an inch across its prob a maccie, they don't sprout from old wood mind???

[TurtleWoods72]

Nice bush...

 

[Mick Dempsey]

If you have to lower it by a meter you'll need a chainsaw, the top will look dead on the inside but don't worry about it. The sides will curl over and cover them.

Omlettes and eggs and all that.

[se7enthdevil]

this is what's the other side of the fence.

 

 

 

what's mine then?

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Crush it, if it smells fruity its thuja, if it's acrid and bitter its leylandii.

[kev7937]

Looks like lawsons to me

[se7enthdevil]

i'm pretty much anosmic and my sense of smell is crap to non existent so telling those two smells apart for me is difficult.

 

any other way?

[Mick Dempsey]

If I (like many others on here) saw a picture of the form, I'd tell you in a trice.

[se7enthdevil]

they are heavily cut back by the owner into a 12' high hedge the length of their garden so are heavily branched from top to bottom on their side. i think if left to grow they would have looked like the norway spruce in our back garden.

[kev7937]

Lawsons branches tend to lay flatter whereas leylandii the foliage grows off at different angles from the branch/twig, thuja's kind of a bigger flatter needle/leaf

 

(Wish I could describe it better, I'm sure someone can).