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"kenty ;-\)" wrote:

if the leylandi grows bigger than you intended then why did you plant it in
the first place?We all know these grow at pace,you could have planted
something more suitable.There are loads of conifers of all sizes,people just
dont use there brains when concidering what to plant were.If we did it would
save alot of time & stress.
kenty
I can testify myself (being both on the receiving end and on the
delivery end) that it's *very easy* to allow a leylandii hedge to grow
taller than you ever intended: the bigger they get, the faster they
grow.

(a) I didn't plant it - my predecessors did. (Personally, I have
planted beech, privet and Russian Vine!)

(b) I should have made the point more clearly: you get used to seeing
"a hedge" at the bottom of the garden -- you don't assess how high it
is. Then one day you realise, when you go out to cut it, that you're
needing to be one step higher up the stepladder than you were last year
.... and you realise that the _shape_ of the hedge is the same, but its
_height_ has crept up. You have the same effect with ornamental trees.

I was suggesting that the neighbours in Northern Ireland might not
actually realise how high their hedge has become.

John