Our beech hedge is inherited and has 5yrs in my care. When i moved in it was slightly low IMO - you could see into the front room from the opposite pavement - it was previously maintained by a contractor so they kept it down for ease. I purposely raised it but realised this year that this has consequences. I now have to stand on a platform to cut it. I think I've also not been as tight as I could have been with the sides so being someone who learns as I go, I'm now on a mission to shear it tight whenever I can. I want to maintain about H6 x W3 ft - it is bigger than that just now. My plan is to gradually nibble away at it.
I'd never previously had a beech hedge and have to say that I adore it. Gorgeous warm colour in winter.
The "nibbling" more than usual I did this year has been forgiven so far but next year I'm going further. I might even set up a guide system of wires to remind me where I want to cut to. If it is too deep, I'll do it in a sequence as @Obelixx suggested.
It's always a joy to drive past. There's a house near me which has a very large beech, very wide, boundary hedge. It had a serious haircut in spring, taking the side bordering the pavement 'right back tae the wid'. It was well covered again by summer, and I could no longer see the hefty, main trunks when walking past.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I'd never previously had a beech hedge and have to say that I adore it. Gorgeous warm colour in winter.
The "nibbling" more than usual I did this year has been forgiven so far but next year I'm going further. I might even set up a guide system of wires to remind me where I want to cut to. If it is too deep, I'll do it in a sequence as @Obelixx suggested.
Up here many properties love to hide behind huge, high and wide Beech hedges.
See pics below.
They are bomb proof if trimmed.
Pics below show a hedge cut hard back to central point by one neighbour./other side left untrimmed
This hedge was pruned right back 2 years ago to stumps and now looks wonderful.
Round the corner new houses have been built and a very very high, very wide old Beech hedge has been hard pruned .
Other hedges are kept very neat and well trimmed.
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/blairgowrie/meikleourhedge/index.html
It's always a joy to drive past.
There's a house near me which has a very large beech, very wide, boundary hedge. It had a serious haircut in spring, taking the side bordering the pavement 'right back tae the wid'. It was well covered again by summer, and I could no longer see the hefty, main trunks when walking past.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...