"Cat(h)" wrote in message
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article . com,
"Cat(h)" writes:
| I have had the most life affirming experience of getting a tree
surgeon
| to cut down a line of leylandii cypresses on the boundary between my
| garden and my neighbour's - to the intense satisfaction of all
| concerned. I have now planted the "hedge" with a variety of
flowering
| shrubs, including fuschias, flowering rubus and a couple of roses.

That sounds good!

I hope it will look as good as it sounds in a few years' time. I also
hope that the W of Ireland fuschia cuttings, grown very successfully in
pots for the last year in situ, will do well in the open ground, in a
slightly harsher climate than they are used to (E Midlands of Ireland).


| Do I need to treat the stumps - including the trunk - to kill them
and
| avoid re-growth?

No. They are conifers and only a couple of species of those will
regrow, and leylandii is not one.

Now, this is good news!!


| Also, the root network of those nasty creatures is
| making it relatively difficult to dig and plant anything there. I
| there any type of product that, painted on the cut section of the
| remaining stumps, would kill the roots (a little like round up does
for
| more conventional weeds?).

Realistically, no. They are effectively already dead, but the actual
removal will be done by fungi over the next few years. There are
products that are said to speed that up, but doing nothing is quite
effective.

More excellent news.


You can dig holes by using a heavy spade, grub-axe, trowel and
hatchet, but there is no quick answer short of heavy machinery.


I have managed to find sufficient pockets of loose soil to fit all my
well rooted cuttings, so the problem has not been too great so far, and
no JCB has been required :-) I might have some greater difficulty
planting my climbers, though...

Thank you very much for your informed advice.

Cat(h)
The world swirls...



Since Leylandii strip the ground of nutrients i would not have left the
roots in ..........when i removed some i painstakingly cleared out the soil
around every root and got them out .......then i was able to pile in tons of
compost and the new plantings soon got going

Theres no substitute for doing a proper job