In article , ned wrote:
mcloone wrote:
Ok,
the gardener seemed helpful at the start, but the owner of the hedge
expressed similar concerns that the hedge was now thin. The said
gardener charged 150 quid to spray cut branches with "fungicide". He
said this would ensure it turns green again.

................. He stopped short of spraying green paint, then?
:-))

I suspect that it was a weak solution of bullshit.

Now don't you go believing all that the anti-leylandii crowd tell you.
My experience is that grass grows well enough up to and under my
hedge.

It isn't leylandii's roots that are the problem, it's the umbrella
effect. Provided that a reasonable proportion of light and rain
reaches under them, you can grow any of the underplants that can
grow in fallen pine needles. And that is a lot.

If virtually no rain reaches there, then it's Cyclamen coum or
hederifolium and not much else. If the needles are ALWAYS dry,
nothing much will grow.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.