On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:56:15 +0100, "Steve Drake"
wrote:



Don't every cut them back, they don't regenerate,

They can do actually, as long as you don't go right back to brown
wood.

I had a couple of out of control leylandii and experimented on them. I
found that if I cut back each branch so that it still had a green
shoot then, after a few months, more green shoots would appear further
down the branch and the branch could be cut again, still leaving at
least one green shoot.

Eventually what had been a 10' diameter tree became a 1' diameter
"pole".

Then I cut it down :-)

Cheers,

John