dont know where you are located zonewise, but both forsythia and
especially spirea, bridal wreath makes spectacular hedges that dont
need to be trimmed, just pruned a bit after blooming. these are my
dwarf spireas http://weloveteaching.com/landscape/spirea/spirea.html
they were too big and had to be removed unfortunately. Ingrid

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:21:41 GMT, "Charlie S."
wrote:

A good friend of mine has a long, wide row of hedges in his back yard. They
are about 8.5 to 9 feet tall. (Yes, they are a pain to trim.) In the front
yard there is one gaping top section cut out by storm, injury or whatever?
This section is about 3 feet in length at most. I asked him if he ever
thought of removing the hedges in that area and replanting a fuller ones.
He said he'd like to but that it would take years for replacement hedges to
grow to that height and fill in.

Is he on target here or is a there a work around to this problem?