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How to encourage new growth on hedge

indigosky63indigosky63 Posts: 17
in Problem solving
We recently demolished a single storey building in our garden, one wall of which was up against a mature Leylandii hedge - about 3 metres tall.  The top of the building came to about a metre below the top of the hedge.  The bottom 2 metres of the hedge, had, over the years, become denuded of any green growth, and as a result, is rather unsightly now that the building is gone. Is there any way I can encourage new growth on bald section of the hedge?  

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  • BiljeBilje Posts: 811
    I think the short answer is no sadly. 
  • indigosky63indigosky63 Posts: 17
    Oh well!  Thanks for your answer. 
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Sorry as @Bilje says Leylandii will not regrow from brown wood.  The only thing you could try is plant some climbers to scramble up onto them to help disguise it. You will need to improve the soil as it will be very dry and depleted of nutrients. 
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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited September 2022
    Allotment Boy said:
    Sorry as @Bilje says Leylandii will not regrow from brown wood.  The only thing you could try is plant some climbers to scramble up onto them to help disguise it. You will need to improve the soil as it will be very dry and depleted of nutrients. 
    I will confirm this.  If it is ugly, have it down and grow something else.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • indigosky63indigosky63 Posts: 17
    Thank you both for the advice. 
  • Wild_VioletWild_Violet Posts: 221
    If the top metre of the hedge is still green and you are keen to keep the height for screening purposes, you could cut the brown branches right into the trunk and put up a 2m high (decorative) fence or screen under the good bit of hedge.  
  • indigosky63indigosky63 Posts: 17
    Thanks 
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