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Dead leylandii

Emma 40Emma 40 Posts: 3
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HI. Total garden novice here.

have recently moved in to new house with long leylandii hedge protecting front of house view from adjacent road. Within the thick hedge are brown patches ( would seem to be aphids from reading this forum) but also two or three trees seem to be totally dead. Can you dig and gring them out and just replant - or will they just die again. Really don't like the leylandii and have already spent £1700 cutting and clearing some other overgrown ones the other side of the garden. We are wondering whether to start whole hedge again. It is big and we'd really want instant coverage. Any thoughts anyone?

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    I agree with Tetley - you don't like them, they don't look good so get rid!!!

    You may not need to grind the stumps out - if you cut them down but leave a 4 ft trunk you can use as a lever, as the ground softens in the winter you should be able to 'rock' them out - they're quite shallow rooted. 

    That'll save you money to put towards a fence and new shrubs image


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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    Ditto what Dove and Tetley have said. I've done exactly the same thing, though I didn't have to remove an existing hedge.

    I moved here two and a half years ago and the garden boundary was completely open to the pavement. I put in a fence myself and planted bare root blackthorn hedging that winter. It's now quite dense and mature. The section forming the back garden boundary has a border with a variety of shrubs and hedging including buddleias which are fast growing and easy to maintain.  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Emma 40Emma 40 Posts: 3
    Thank you all for really helpful advice. Was hoping to avoid a fence but sounds like the best thing.

    Goodbye leylandii. X
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    We took out a 100ft row of them a couple of years ago and made a flower border with shrubs at the back, they are not difficult to get out, best with two people though, as one wiggles and digs, the other cut off any holding roots. They are shallow rooted so not much digging.

    a mattock or pick axe and some big loppers and your half way there.

    this is it earlier in the year but it's grown a lot more now, the laurels are out, so more places to plant nice stuff.

    image

     

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Emma 40Emma 40 Posts: 3

    This is beautiful! Helped by the gorgeous view! We have not such an attractive looking road but will certainly do something similar - really pretty. The other side of the front where we have already taken the trees down would look very good like this.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Sit on a bench Tetley...you must be jokingimage

    but yes the patio faces that way and I have had the odd cup of coffee sitting there, then you see something needing attention and up again.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Tetley wrote (see)

    Know what you mean....I have a job to stay sat sitting until the end of the coffee.  image

     

     

    Oh good -thought it was only me....imageimage

    I have a nice bench but  don't sit on it nearly enough! image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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