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GarethAustin
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 Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject: Leylandii anyone? |
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Leynadii anyone?
This has got to one of the most mis-planted plants for all time.
I will stand up for it and say that when it is well maintained it makes a super hedge. Lovely and dense.
But this is the exception rather than the norm, everyone has saw many a Leylandii hedge all straggly, bare, burned, patchy and more. |
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GarethAustin
Rowan Tree
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My spelling is absolutely shocking!
Abologies everyone. Spell check would be great on this - GPI can you organise this!? with urgency!!!!! |
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verge
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Location: Ireland
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| GarethAustin wrote: | My spelling is absolutely shocking!
Abologies everyone. Spell check would be great on this - GPI can you organise this!? with urgency!!!!! |
You can use the edit button above your post to rectify the misspellings in the title and post body.
There is no spell check on the site at present, so I suggest you cut and past your reply into a WORD document, that will show up the misspellings for you, and correct them.
It works for me, I think  .
Except for the Latin plant names, that is a whole other days work. 
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maryrose
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| leylandii should be banned or limited by law to 5 or 6 feet as in northern Ireland.I have had major hassle with neighbours who allowed their hedge to grow to more than 25 feet ,cutting out all sun in Winter in my own garden |
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GPI
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| maryrose wrote: | | leylandii should be banned or limited by law to 5 or 6 feet as in northern Ireland.I have had major hassle with neighbours who allowed their hedge to grow to more than 25 feet ,cutting out all sun in Winter in my own garden |
I believe to ban them outright is a tad too harsh.
Thats a slippery slope, where next we might then possibly ban high pollen plants, then thorny plants, and so on.
Who knows where it would end.
Education is the way forward as long as people listen and learn.
First lesson... x Cupressuscyparis 'Leylandii' is a tree and not a shrub, It creates a screen not a hedge.
Don't try and battle nature by planting it with the hope it will grow quickly to 6ft, screening you, then stop or slow down its growth.
It will not.
Like many trees it continues to shoot upwards and outwards.
Eventually reaching 60ft tall at a rapid growth rate.
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Tobar
Hazel Tree
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:04 pm Post subject: my new Leylandii |
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I've planted a row of Leylandii along the side of my back wall garden in the hope of growing it quickly to form a screen for privacy.
Our back wall is about 5.5 feet tall, and can easily be looked over. We've been having problems with kids jumping over it & vandalising any new work (planting) we do in it.
While I can appreciate people hating the plant for the above reasons, our planting of it will not block anyone's light (we're on a corner site). I think it is the best plant for our immediate needs. We have Pyracantha in the front garden, and that simply does not grow quick enough.
What do people think? am I right or wrong? |
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