If my experience is contrary to yours what shall I do ... just keep quiet?
You are making it up for some personal female antagonism reasons everywhere. Trolling and talking me down every time, "Don't do, don't do."
I have proof in photographs. And there is a hedge linked for proof that it need not be taken down. All she needs to do is put one vine down in one pot with one bamboo steak and then into the ground when not tender to see this proof that she has a wonderful flowering, scented solution for herself.
Now trying to gang made up fake attack me. "I am the queen bee here. I can gang up 10 people to make up fake things.
She only needs to put one down for proof of a wonderful solution she can see with her own eyes. A simple thing that you don't want to allow her to do and see my proof provided is right.
There is a hedge that gives PROOF here that she need not destroy her whole hedge and be without any privacy.
@Jac19 I see in all your replies to people on various threads you want them to grow Jasminum Officinale no matter what their conditions are for growing it, do you have a vested interest perhaps to a seller of this plant?
The pictures @Khanivore posted shows neatly trimmed structural hedges providing year-round screening to the property. From the style of house etc I imagine neighbouring properties will have a similar style of screening.
I think, therefore, that the section of hedge which has died needs to be replaced with something which will give the same year round structure. IMO jasmine will not give that structure. Whenever I've grown it, it's been a loose floppy plant with lots of wayward stems. It's pretty and well scented but I don't think you could ever call it a structural plant - in fact I consider it rather untidy.
If only a section of the hedge is affected I would remove that section - including as many roots as you can (mini-digger hire or a landscaper job maybe). I would invest a bit of time in trying to remove some of the larger weeds from under the rest of the hedge and I would then buy in loads of well rotted farm yard manure. Dig in as much as you need to improve the cleared area (I'd put down at least 15cm deep by about 90cm wide) and dig it in thoroughly. Use the rest of the organic matter to mulch under the rest of the hedge to a depth of about 4".
Come November you could then buy in some bare root hedging to replant the section. My first choice would probably be yew because it can be clipped nice and neatly and the small needles are not dissimilar to leylandii leaves. It will be a different colour.
Personally, I wouldn't replace it with new leylandii bushes because - a) I don't like them b) - they grow very fast and take a lot of cutting (at least twice per season) to keep them tidy and c) - if there is a disease or pest causing the problems you don't really want to be reusing the same plant.
Yew has the additional advantages of growing much slower than leylandii and will reshoot if cut back really hard.
A big job if it's a long stretch but very doable if it's only a few metres of hedging.
Failing all that I'd go with the ivy too....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
@Jac19 I see in all your replies to people on various threads you want them to grow Jasminum Officinale no matter what their conditions are for growing it, do you have a vested interest perhaps to a seller of this plant?
It is the solution I provided for the two hedges only, because I have done it in the same conditions and it works easily and beautifully in the same conditions. I am doing one right now, killing off the underlying hedge shrub in place. It is a flower with heavenly scent and one that attracts bees and butterflies to the garden for nectar.
I sell nothing related to gardening, unlike others here. I am an electronic engineer and AI data scientist by profession. I moonlight as a published writer. I have been gardening as a hobby gardener all my life.
@Khanivore you may want to try something like Lonicera nitida. Any hedge is going to compete with the tree for water but L nitida is fairly forgiving, pretty fast growing and clips to a neat low hedge. They're cheap to buy too so if you're unlucky, aaprt from time you've not lost alot.
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I have proof in photographs. And there is a hedge linked for proof that it need not be taken down. All she needs to do is put one vine down in one pot with one bamboo steak and then into the ground when not tender to see this proof that she has a wonderful flowering, scented solution for herself.
There are plenty of other experienced gardeners on here who are agreeing with me.
I shall continue to answer queries in accordance with my own knowledge and experience. If that's different to yours, so be it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
She only needs to put one down for proof of a wonderful solution she can see with her own eyes. A simple thing that you don't want to allow her to do and see my proof provided is right.
There is a hedge that gives PROOF here that she need not destroy her whole hedge and be without any privacy.
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1030818/which-climbers-will-be-suitable-to-cover-a-brown-patch-of-leylandii#latest
The pictures @Khanivore posted shows neatly trimmed structural hedges providing year-round screening to the property. From the style of house etc I imagine neighbouring properties will have a similar style of screening.
I think, therefore, that the section of hedge which has died needs to be replaced with something which will give the same year round structure. IMO jasmine will not give that structure. Whenever I've grown it, it's been a loose floppy plant with lots of wayward stems. It's pretty and well scented but I don't think you could ever call it a structural plant - in fact I consider it rather untidy.
If only a section of the hedge is affected I would remove that section - including as many roots as you can (mini-digger hire or a landscaper job maybe). I would invest a bit of time in trying to remove some of the larger weeds from under the rest of the hedge and I would then buy in loads of well rotted farm yard manure. Dig in as much as you need to improve the cleared area (I'd put down at least 15cm deep by about 90cm wide) and dig it in thoroughly. Use the rest of the organic matter to mulch under the rest of the hedge to a depth of about 4".
Come November you could then buy in some bare root hedging to replant the section. My first choice would probably be yew because it can be clipped nice and neatly and the small needles are not dissimilar to leylandii leaves. It will be a different colour.
Personally, I wouldn't replace it with new leylandii bushes because - a) I don't like them b) - they grow very fast and take a lot of cutting (at least twice per season) to keep them tidy and c) - if there is a disease or pest causing the problems you don't really want to be reusing the same plant.
Yew has the additional advantages of growing much slower than leylandii and will reshoot if cut back really hard.
A big job if it's a long stretch but very doable if it's only a few metres of hedging.
Failing all that I'd go with the ivy too....
I sell nothing related to gardening, unlike others here. I am an electronic engineer and AI data scientist by profession. I moonlight as a published writer. I have been gardening as a hobby gardener all my life.