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Originally Posted by NikV
Another issue, in the new house we have inherited a handsome hedge which
does a great job of sheilding us from the road
http://www.nasuwt.net/~nikvenn/hedge.jpg
What is it - any ideas, heres a close up shot
http://www.nasuwt.net/~nikvenn/hedgecloseup.jpg
it appears to have some disease any clue would be useful, I was planning on
cutting it right back to the dark green healthy leaves. In the dry it has
no smell at all but as soon as it gets damp IT SMELLS, initially I thought
we had a cracked sewer but it is definitely the hedge, dampening a few of
the leaves produces the revolting smell - what is causing it (nothing
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Looks rather like viburnum tinus. Problem with v tinus as a hedge is that you can only give it a light prune immediately after flowering or you lose next year's flowers, so it is hard to have both flowers and avoid it getting bigger. You will also discover the wood is very hard if you have to cut it back hard. But you can cut it right to the ground and it will come back, but will take a couple of years to flower. No idea why it smells, ours doesn't. But ours doesn't have the holey leaves either.