Thank you @AnniD and @1634 Racine - it does look like my plant! I have googled, it could be thuja brabant? As it is described as slow growing which is what that plant was. I wonder if I can just plant it next to the stump or do I necessarily need to remove it?
@AnniD It were people whom my husband hired “to do the front garden” - I’m amazed how he could do such a silly thing. I would be too disgusted to even talk to this travelling “minority”.
I can just imagine @Big Blue Sky, l have seen similar around where l live. With regard to the conifer, my OH cut our thuja hedge back and as the growth wasn't as quick as he'd hoped, he planted some smaller ones in between the existing ones. Kept well watered they have grown really well and are filling in the gaps, so that's my experience of planting next to existing thuja conifers!
Thank you Anni, that is encouraging. This is a dry spot, so I will need to water a lot. I have Daphne Perfume Princess in a pot, so was thinking of planting it in the gap (would be a good location for a scented plant as it close to the little foot path leading into the backgarden), but I think it is too slow growing, and I wouldn’t want to look at this gap longer than I have to.
I was prepared to forgive him, my thinking was that we (he) could plant something else like the Knapweed and Ox eye daisies that I have grown from seed in the places where he cut the campion, if he did all the work planting them he may be more inclined to let them grow, but his reply was less than encouraging. I wouldn't mind if he said sorry, but he didn't even apologize - says he isn't going to do any more gardening - oh dear, I think I will have to wait a day or two for him to calm down and hopefully become more rational.
I asked a gardening friend to help me out with some gardening (paid). He cut off all my wisteria, cut down an ivy hedge and deranged a privet hedge. It comes down to the definition of "trim". The ivy is just recovering two years later. The privet is still looks like had an accident with combine harvester.
I've just seen this thread - oh dear! It's the 'keeping things tidy' thing. Mine doesn't like plants against a fence, not good for the wood, and he strims the lane margins where all the wild things grow because it will 'get out of hand if it's just left.'
There is a cultivar of Lawson Cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana 'Fleckellwood') ; this looks like the one to me .
You could be right Paul, the description I found on the internet matches the plant, maily that the final hight is 1.2m and it is slowgrowing. It seems to ne currently out of stock in all online nurseries, but hopefully I can find something in the local GC.
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I wonder if I can just plant it next to the stump or do I necessarily need to remove it?
@AnniD It were people whom my husband hired “to do the front garden” - I’m amazed how he could do such a silly thing. I would be too disgusted to even talk to this travelling “minority”.
With regard to the conifer, my OH cut our thuja hedge back and as the growth wasn't as quick as he'd hoped, he planted some smaller ones in between the existing ones. Kept well watered they have grown really well and are filling in the gaps, so that's my experience of planting next to existing thuja conifers!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.