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Will my tree grow back?

amv8amv8 Posts: 9
in Problem solving
Had a disaster with my tree. Asked the gardener to trim it and came back to half of the tree gone. Pretty gutted - will it grow back? 
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  • amv8amv8 Posts: 9
    This is how it looks now. Sorry for the bad quality 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    It's been trimmed as you requested (not sure what you were expecting)... it looks like a yew which takes trimming well, but whatever it is he has cut into green leafy growth which will usually regrow.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • amv8amv8 Posts: 9
    edited April 2021
    Maybe I wasn’t clear. Either way, it should grow back? Good news - how fast or slow do these trees grow back?
  • amv8amv8 Posts: 9
    Also is there any supplement I can use to help the branches to grow back quicker and luscious? 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    I like the trimmed version, maybe it’s just the shock of the change dispiriting you?

    Yew is more a hedging bush than a tree, won’t suffer from the trim, and will slowly regain the height over the years.  

    It looks more manageable size now, so if you do decide to keep it tidy you should be able to reach more easily.

    I haven’t mulched my yew, but there isn’t anything that will suddenly cause it to put on massive growth this year.

  • amv8amv8 Posts: 9
    edited April 2021
    Guess it’s a bonus that someone else prefers it. I’ll take a better pic today. At least it should grow back. Was worried it might not 
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    It will be fine, but not fast. This sort of tree lends itself to trimming and shaping and many prefer it thus, but it will recover its old shape and habit in time.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2021
    It’s fine ... as others have said he’s done a good job, exactly what I’d expect given the instructions. It looks perfect for a formal style front garden which looks like what you’ve got there. There’s not really any other way to trim it that I can see.

     It’ll soon stop looking quite so ‘recently trimmed’ and will grow back nice and bushy in time and then it’ll outgrow the space and need trimming again ... it’s always a choice of either frequent close clipping or infrequent but radical cutting back with evergreens near to a house. The more frequently it’s clipped the closer together the new leafy growth will be and so the bare branches will be better hidden. 

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EuKiZFgAe0

     You’re lucky that your shrub seems to be a type that will respond well to clipping and that you have found a gardener who knows what he’s doing. 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • amv8amv8 Posts: 9
    Thanks for the helpful comments

    attached a few pics of the cuts - which don’t seem to be that clean. Would this cause any issues for regrow or possibly disease 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    They might.  If you have some secateurs or loppers I would cut those torn looking stems more neatly.

    Have to agree with the others tho.  It looks better shaped than shaggy.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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