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| awemawson:
OK Steve - you asked for it :lol: |
| Manxmodder:
--- Quote from: mattinker on August 01, 2014, 12:10:56 PM --- --- Quote from: awemawson on August 01, 2014, 10:52:02 AM ---Uckfield is 22 miles from us Matthew - drop by any time you are there visiting --- End quote --- Thanks, I will although I can't see it happening in the too near future! It would be nice to have a face and a place to relate to. Regards, Matthew --- End quote --- It's the only place in East Sussex where the Leylandii have been skillfully sculpted to look like topiary amputees,you can't miss it :lol: :lol:...OZ. |
| awemawson:
Oz, I'd dearly like to fell the lot of them and replace with an indigenous species hedge, but there are masses of them. Trouble is we need the shade in summer and windbreak in winter that they give and any replacement would take at least 5 years to grow. The previous owners ran a greyhound training establishment here, and planted them to hide their activities from a public footpath that runs one field across. |
| Spurry:
You seem to have a few more than the 50 odd 40ft leylandii we chopped down along one of our borders. Heaving the roots out (and their disposal) was a bigger problem than the trees. :-) Still, our neighbours are now happy having endured the darkness since they moved in. Pete |
| awemawson:
We grubbed out about 200 when we were ditching a few years back. The problem is once they get above a certain height they are the devil of a job to contain. I understand that there is no known upper height limit for them, since the hybrid was created no one has yet let them go full height over a sufficiently long period. When we came here I put a advert in the local paper for 'pick you own leylandii - free' - quite a few were dug up this way but people found it quite a job to extract them with a root ball despite the fact they were probably only 3 years old at the time. I wish I'd had the time (and cash) to pull them all out and as previously said, plant an indigenous species hedge. We have planted 100 metres of mixed Blackthorn, Whitethorn, Alder, Willow, Crab Apple and Rambling Rose and I have another 100 metres to do at the back end of the year of a similar make up |
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