"Sacha" wrote in message
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Matt Barton26/4/04 10:17

Hello,

Appologies if this is an all too familiar query, but I couldn't find an
FAQ
for the group...

Here it is: http://www.nugget.demon.co.uk/MetaFAQ/index.html

Thanks very much.


I moved into a new house just before christmas, and at the bottom of the
garden is a 30ft leylandii. I've no problem with the tree itself (I
quite
like it actually - it's a nice counter-point to a *massive* leylandii
hedge
which shelters my house from a railway line), but it's so big that I'm
worried that if I don't deal with it now, it'll be too big for me to
manage
in 6 - 12 months (and I'd hate to have to pay someone to do it if I can
do
it now myself).

I want to cut it to about half of its current height, and then maintain
it
at that height - my questions a is it likely to survive, is there a
better course of action, is there a particular reason why doing so is a
bad
idea?

Once you cut into old wood on leylandii they don't sprout back and look
very
ragged. We advised a neighbour of ours not to do this, she thought she
knew
better and she's now left with trunks sticking out of the top of lower
growing foliage looking simply awful.

Hmmm, I can imagine that looking unattractive. What would you advise
instead?

Matt