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Old 18-07-2010, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by harry View Post

Any replacement will take years to grow. Why not cut them back? You
can be as savage as you like.
Well, not quite. You can reduce the height quite easily, although they might look quite strange with truncated tops. But the OP I think is also worried about the width, and this is less easy to reduce. If you cut back beyond the green tips to the branches, they won't regrow, so in practice you can reduce the width only be a foot or two.