I agree with @Obelixx. If your side is green, just keep it like that. You might think the top is ugly, but if it isn't kept cut back to around that height, they'll keep on growing...and growing. They can reach 100 feet. They've probably been allowed to get to a huge size, and someone's had the sense to cut them back to a good height - hence the thicker trunks visible in your 2nd and 3rd pix. As long as you keep the hedge trimmed each year without cutting into the brown wood, it'll stay as it is
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Who owns the waste ground? If it's yours, use it for compost heaps and the like. If it's not, just ignore it and concentrate on your side of the conifer hedge.
Part is the end of someones drive, and part is waste ground.
Will do, thanks. May also put a fence on the other side to create a boundary and stop anyone in the future thinking about cutting the other side back even more.
Be careful about making it a solid fence with wooden panels as that may make a rain shadow which will reduce water at the roots and compromise the hedge and will also cut out light. Think wire mesh instead.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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You might think the top is ugly, but if it isn't kept cut back to around that height, they'll keep on growing...and growing. They can reach 100 feet.
They've probably been allowed to get to a huge size, and someone's had the sense to cut them back to a good height - hence the thicker trunks visible in your 2nd and 3rd pix. As long as you keep the hedge trimmed each year without cutting into the brown wood, it'll stay as it is
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...