In article , Janet Baraclough
writes
Those beech are too big for laying, but if you saw the trunks off very
short, say 1ft tall, they will spring up again from the trunk below the
cut, then by regular trimming you can make a thick new hedge in a few
years time.

Aye, and the rest. I dug out the entire stump of a beech that had been a
large tree, and been cut right back and now the odd piece of root I left
in is sprouting leaves.

John
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John Rouse