Brooklyn1 writes:

Dan Espen wrote:
Brooklyn1 writes:
Dazzamancs wrote:

I have a very large garden and I have purchased a 16ft Leylandi which is
going to be 40 meter away from any building structure. But I dont know
how to plant it.

You are speaking of a totally valueless weed... makes a quick growing
hedge that doesn't live long and is susceptable to many diseases.
You'd have done much better buying a 2' tall seedling for like $2...
actually you'd have done far better not buying that weed at all.

In real life, I find the tree attractive.

I can't picture a homeowner planting a 16ft tree.
There should be tractors involved in the process.


Agreed... probably an excavator to dig the planting hole and to lift
and set the tree... the root ball could weigh a half ton.

Wikipedia has some interesting comments about the
legal risks to having the tree:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leylan...#Legal_aspects

The plant's rapid growth (up to a metre per year) and great potential
height – often over 20 metres (66 ft) tall, sometimes as high as 35
metres (115 ft) – can become a serious problem. In 2005 in the United
Kingdom, an estimated 17,000 people were at loggerheads over high
hedges, which led to violence and in at least one case murder, when in
2001, retired Environment Agency officer Llandis Burdon, 57, was shot
dead after an alleged dispute over a leylandii hedge in Talybont-on-Usk,
Powys.

Part VIII of the United Kingdom's Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003,
introduced in 2005, gave a way for people affected by high hedges
(usually, but not necessarily, of leylandii) to ask their local
authority to investigate complaints about the hedges, and gave the
authorities in England and Wales power to have the hedges reduced in
height. In May 2008, UK resident Christine Wright won a 24-year
legal battle to have her neighbour's leylandii trees cut down for
blocking sunlight to her garden.

I like Dawn Redwoods, Not an evergreen but looks like one in the
summer and nice bark, shape, grows fast.

Dawn Redwoods are interesting ancient trees, I especially like their
trunk bark, cinnamon hued and fissured. I planted two... one was ~6'
when I planted it, now 12 years later ~18', the other was in a pot.
~30" when I planted it, now ~10'. They are not very fast growing,
perhaps 1' per year. They are planted in my wildflower meadow, I
keep them fenced from deer.
The smaller Dawn Redwood, that's Newt:
http://i65.tinypic.com/2qsuhlh.jpg
Same tree, I maintain many walking paths:
http://i68.tinypic.com/140dmjq.jpg
The larger Dawn Redwood:
http://i66.tinypic.com/2uiws2u.jpg
You can see the larger Dawn Redwood way out in the wildflower meadow:
http://i64.tinypic.com/20tkvhh.jpg
These pictures were taken in 2012.
Newt was a great barn cat, no longer with us.
He stopped eating, Vet said inoperable throat cancer.
Had to put him down, a very sad time, Newt is resting by his barn.
For those who don't know Tinypics can be enlarged; close the ads,
click on picture, then click on "View Raw Image" and click on picture
to enlarge.
http://www.dawnredwood.org/INFORMATION.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metase...yptostroboides
Keep in mind that most plant nurserys use photoshopped pictures and
greatly exaggerate plant growth facts. Dawn Redwood does not look
like that picture nor does it grow several feet per year, in my
opinion their reviews were obviously cherry picked and doctored:
http://www.fast-growing-trees.com/DawnRedwood.htm

My neighbor planted one as a sapling.
It's now about 50ft tall.

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Dan Espen