It could make a big difference what the particular hedge plants are like naturally.
My amelanchia hedge is loose and wilder looking. I am trying to trim it up a bit more but I rather like the more natural look. Some plants look better if they are not chopped back to rigidly suit our standards of neatness.
A case of needs must, the garden is not large by any means, I just seem to have inherited a selection of vigorous growing shrubs which I'm slowly replacing with smaller choice ones.
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Iamweedy
The same, everything looks really neat now which is okay, but I can't wait for the stuff to grow, just a little, for the more lived in look.
Sort of resembles Versailles with attitude.
I tend to use electric and manual on my hedges but as luck will have it the large perimeter hedge
which is Cotoneaster does not respond to electric cutters so I have to sharpen up the shears and
set about it which takes two days in total. I have just completed its summer trim this very morning.
The problem as always been electric cutters just turn the new soft growth over and strip the leaves
off. The job is not so bad though as passers bye always stop for a chat hence the two days.
I also love doing topiary by hand it really is relaxing.
I'm with you there iamweedy
In the sticks near Peterborough
A case of needs must, the garden is not large by any means, I just seem to have inherited a selection of vigorous growing shrubs which I'm slowly replacing with smaller choice ones.
It'll either keep me in tip-top shape or kill me.