In article ,
Kay wrote:
In article , Sacha
writes
Perhaps people take better care of beech hedges because they don't take so
much care and that is because they don't grow at such a terrific rate.

perhaps there are just fewer beech hedges?

Not in suburbia in the south-east - they compare with hawthorn and
privet in number. leylandii stand out more, but I doubt that there
are any more than ones of those three.

No, the reasons for beech hedges' lower objectionality are primarily
due to their nature (see my posting, and Sacha's point above). The
same does not apply to all hedges (e.g. laurel).

And don't forget the bandwagon effect. Leylandii complaints are the 'in
thing' atm.

Yes, that is so. A fair comparison is with laurel, and the reduced
number of current complaints about laurel IS because of the reduced
number of hedges. When laurel hedges were used in the way leylandii
is now, they got the same complaints.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.