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Disposal of large garden hedges

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,138

    Put a message on your local Streetlife.com page - someone near you may have a shredder or a truck, or need some logs or have an idea what to do with them. 

    Whatever you do, don't burn them in your garden - leylandii hedging is very flammable

    http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/update_six_houses_damaged_by_serious_fire_in_the_drive_reydon_1_4102121


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





  • Just because it's convenient to you to cut down hedges in spring, it doesn't make it right or legal.

    The easiest way to get rid is to hire a skip. You may need two, but if you cut it all into smaller bits and pack it in well, it will help.

  • Daryl2Daryl2 Posts: 452

    Have you tried any local garden service companies? I use a garden services man who brings me big white builder's sacks and takes them away to the green recycling place for £15 a bag. Anything I can't compost myself I cut up and put in the bags. It's amazing how much will go in a bag if you cut it up. Just cut where the branches and twigs join so it will lie down flat with no big air spaces. Good luck.

    You have certainly cleared and opened up a nice big space there to get the garden ready for a future toddler image

  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    Joe is right, it is illegal to disturb nesting birds and with that much hedge you will have disturbed at least one nest.

    cutting hedges down between February and October is a no-no!

  • Not wishing to make life too difficult, March to end of July usually covers it.

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