"K" wrote in message
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Judith in France writes

I seem to remember that you had a row of Lleyandi along the drive with the
Church. I can't remember if they took them down or not?

There's two sets of Leylandii. There are our four, which block the view of
the rather boring side of the Church, and there's their half dozen around
the war memorial out the front. We've taken the tops out of ours, so
they're now about 15 feet high. They've also topped theirs. more recently,
and I guess theirs are about 10 ft high. None are a problem to us atm as
they're all some distance from the house. The only tree near to the house
is the beech.

We may top ours again, and we are considering taking them out one by one,
and letting the bay tree have more room - it's as tall as the leylandiis
and growing at much the same speed.
Kay

Thanks to all. The caller offered to chop it down, remove the bits and
*poison* the roots; all for £40.

Why would he poison the roots, I wouldn't have thought much of them would
survive once the tree is chopped down?