In article , Duncan
writes
Noticed some oak seedlings growing in a gap in a hedge. If they keep
growing, how will they respond when they eventually become so big that the
hedge-trimmer attacks them ? will this treatment just kill them, or will
they produce new shoots ?

Duncan


Produce new shoots Duncan. I let two grow in my hawthorn hedge, they got
to about 20 foot high and became a pain as |I couldn't rim the hedges
properly and they were heaving up the path along the base of the hedge.

I had them chopped down to 2 foot but they make a lot of shoots every
year and don't seem to be going away!
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk