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Gerry, Can you recommend a suitable feed for a young beech hedge (2.5 years old) ? Should feed be applied now or in early spring ?
When is the best time of year to sow griselinia? Can you advise on ground preparation for sowing? Is it possible to buy bareroot plants now and plant them temperarily until intended area is ready and dryer, as budget is low.
Hi Jerry. we planting yew hedging approx 4 ft tall in April. on a border of a sloped garden. We have been very careful with watering when necessary. Wen we found it bronzing and some of plants loosing leaves one foot from the soil, we added more soil and some suitables feed. It still doesn't look great and chatting with a friend her hedge looks great and was planted at the same time. Her garden is'nt sloped. We have acid soil ? Should we be concerned or do we give it time to settle in? Thank you ,Nell
Hi Gerry, I have a couple of holly trees approx 2m high - they have never been pruned but I would like to restrict their height and train them into a 'hedge' shape. Should I just lop the top third off? When should I do it - Spring? Thanks , Conor
Hi Gerry, It's currenly apx 8 feet deep X apx 7 feeet high.I heard that you can cut it back hard on one side one year and repeat the process the following year.What would you advise please and Thanks.
I planted an eccallonia hedge from one litre pots one week ago. When planting I added some fertilizer and compost to the ground. However after the weekend rain most of the plants have lost their leaves or their leaves are brown. Is this due to the fertilizer. Will these plants recover or will i have to replace them?
I'm establishing a laurel hedge from small plants. They have grown approx 6 foot in 4 yrs but are "leggy" at the bottom. How should I prune them? e.g. cut back to 2 foot high or just trim lower side branches? thanks, Conor
We have a large hedge of viburnum tinus. Some plants have wilted, the leaves have gone brown and the shrub eventually dies. We replaced these. Now the same thing is happening to a number of them. Is there anything to do to save them as they are 6 years old? What could be causing the problem?
Hi Gerry, I have a laurel hedge along the front wall of my house. Its 30ft long and planted two years. In the past week the leaves are turing, yellow..brown..black at the top of the plant working its way down through it. I dont think it is water logged as I have checked. I would be grateful for your opinion.
Enter the detail of your question BRIEFLY (in up to 100 words).Hello Gerry,I have just taken down 3 Leylandi and another hedge bush at the back of my garden. I am having a a wall built instead. The wall will be 180 inches long then a door/gate about 30 - 33 inches wide and a short wall of 32 inches. It will be about 7 feet high.As I am on slope of a hill the top windows of the houses at the back of me will now be looking into mygarden and can see into my sittingroom as I have an 8 foot patio door with a small patio outside it. My whole backgarden would be about 34 foot long and 22 feet wide. It will be walled in now completely.My house is in a terrace - the middle one in a block of five-.My question is: What could I plant at the back wall that would grow up a few feet above the wall for privacy but would not require alot of maintenace -would there be any small trees that would suit? What would you recommend?
At what time of year should Griselinia be prunned and are there any special tips for looking after the hedge
we have an old sally hedge which we want to get rid of. We cut it down to the base is there anything else we need to do. We want to set new hedge in its place.
I have a blackthorn hedge which did have birds nesting in it up to now. Is it safe to clip the hedge now?Have all fledglings flown by now or do some birds hatch later in the summer? Thank you !
we are looking to plant hedging to surround a large garden of 1 acre. what is the fastest growing hedging available and lowest maintence.?
Hi. We planted an Escallonia hedge about four years ago and its growing well. Last year during the summer the leaves got black spots and turned yellow and the hedge seemed to die. So in the autumn we cut it back to see if it would come back this year. Once we had cleaned around the bottom of the hedging this year as the summer came in the hedging took off and had lovely green healthy leaves and new growth and pink flowers started to appear. Then last night it rained and this evening we noticed that the black spots were coming back on the leaves and some of the leaves had started to turn yellow. So we are wondering should we have had sprayed it for any particular disease or bug?
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