I am an Ivy League and Oxbridge educated EE & AI Computer Science engineer and mathematician, where I also studied creative writing in the summers and as a minor. Published by New York in full length literary suspense and by literary magazines in poetry and short fiction.
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Just wanted to say @bml that I'm impressed that you have a 100 year old hedge. Ancient plantings are so important to our ecology and I really hope you are able to do as @Fairygirl suggests and remove the ivy and get some young privet (I think it's privet too - bees love the flowers!) in there. Keep us posted!
I don't see anything that I would definitely say was privet in the picture. Is that one of the larger-leaved cotoneasters on the right-hand side?
In any case they're not conifers, so if there's green leaves at the top of a branch, then if you cut that branch back it should make several new shoots from just below where you cut.
It's often difficult to get new plants established within an existing hedge because of competition from the established plants already there, so you might get better results by pruning what you have and letting it regrow more bushy.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
You are a jealous troll trying to spin everything milk and honey and white angels into dogpoo, stalking and trolling me around the site everywhere and hacking at me with made up nonsense. There is nothing you cannot twist and bitch at. Your inner jealousy and ugliness colours what you read in and rotten motive blackens what you write.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Perhaps that means something?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
EVERYONE who is a real good person can see those who are trolls trolling, abusing, defaming, bitching, and nothing but bad mouthing trying to undercut an honest, real person.
They can see me never stalking another person everywhere doing nothing but trash, bitch, abuse, defame, trash, bitch, abuse, slander, hack, hack, hack, undercut.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.