Hi

Perennial problem with a neighbour over a hedge we share - he wants it
down by his knees, I want it 6' for my privacy. So, he cuts it when
I'm out, but I have land on my side to spare, so could grow where he
can't cut. But, what grows quickly in shade and on clay? I need all
year round cover.

Have looked at Monster Bamboos! I have tried a couple of small
conifers but so slow and laurel doesn't get on either - either dying
or stagnating!

Any other suggestions?

The bamboo would be from seed by the way....

MG

privet?

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Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

"Sacha" wrote in message
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I agree 100% and I'd consider putting some trellis on top of that, well
secured against windy conditions and nosy neighbours. CAN he just cut
down the your half of the hedge?


IIRR in one of the "Leylandii Wars", the neighbour who chopped down
the hedge claimed he only ever owned the bottom half of the hedge.
So he started at the bottom and only cut to half way up, never thus
touching the top half owned by the neighbour.

Or maybe its an urban myth, or maybe I just deamed it up. Dunno.


michael adams


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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
Low maintenance.

"Sacha" wrote in message
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I agree 100% and I'd consider putting some trellis on top of that, well
secured against windy conditions and nosy neighbours. CAN he just cut
down the your half of the hedge?


IIRR in one of the "Leylandii Wars", the neighbour who chopped down
the hedge claimed he only ever owned the bottom half of the hedge.
So he started at the bottom and only cut to half way up, never thus
touching the top half owned by the neighbour.

Or maybe its an urban myth, or maybe I just deamed it up. Dunno.*


michael adams


* or maybe the story has already featured on GQT around 500 times. Ed


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michael adams wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
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I agree 100% and I'd consider putting some trellis on top of that, well
secured against windy conditions and nosy neighbours. CAN he just cut
down the your half of the hedge?


IIRR in one of the "Leylandii Wars", the neighbour who chopped down
the hedge claimed he only ever owned the bottom half of the hedge.
So he started at the bottom and only cut to half way up, never thus
touching the top half owned by the neighbour.

Or maybe its an urban myth, or maybe I just deamed it up. Dunno.

In my last house I had a 12' tall leylandii hedge which I simply
loathed, so I arranged to have it cut down. A serously dotty woman
living across the lane reported me to the council for 'mutilating
beautiful old trees'. The council man told me later that he laughed so
hard he was nearly sick. I left one standing which neatly obscured her
view of my garden from her windows! But this woman was so peculiar
that she wrapped rolled up newspapers in kitchen towel and stuffed them
down the manhole cover of the cess pit used by her house and the
adjacent one. Her nieghbours had to pay for it to be emptied, not her,
for some technical reason. After that episode, several neighbours
she'd upset, or whose lives she'd made difficult, banded together and
took out an injunction preventing her from any such further
shenanigans.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

"Sacha" wrote in message
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michael adams wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
oups.com...


I agree 100% and I'd consider putting some trellis on top of that,
well
secured against windy conditions and nosy neighbours. CAN he just cut
down the your half of the hedge?


IIRR in one of the "Leylandii Wars", the neighbour who chopped down
the hedge claimed he only ever owned the bottom half of the hedge.
So he started at the bottom and only cut to half way up, never thus
touching the top half owned by the neighbour.

Or maybe its an urban myth, or maybe I just deamed it up. Dunno.

In my last house I had a 12' tall leylandii hedge which I simply
loathed, so I arranged to have it cut down. A serously dotty woman
living across the lane reported me to the council for 'mutilating
beautiful old trees'. The council man told me later that he laughed so
hard he was nearly sick. I left one standing which neatly obscured her
view of my garden from her windows! But this woman was so peculiar
that she wrapped rolled up newspapers in kitchen towel and stuffed them
down the manhole cover of the cess pit used by her house and the
adjacent one. Her nieghbours had to pay for it to be emptied, not her,
for some technical reason. After that episode, several neighbours
she'd upset, or whose lives she'd made difficult, banded together and
took out an injunction preventing her from any such further
shenanigans.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon

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Yup, if only it was possible to kill-file neighbours from hell.


It doesn't actually say whether this chap was very tall or not
for some unaccountable reason, and no references are given for
any of the information, so its all on an allegedly basis -

Anyway in case anyone was wondering

quote

Short History of the Leyland cypress - X Cupressocyparis leylandii

The story of the Leyland Cypress really began in Liverpool with Thomas
Leyland, the founder of Leyland & Bullins Bank. In 1776 Leyland, with
his business partner, won £20,000 in the State Lottery and, initially,
Leyland used his profits to enter the slave trade in which he made a
fortune, notably with his aptly named ships, 'Lottery' and 'Enterprise'.

Leyland was elected Mayor of Liverpool three times, in 1798, 1814 and
1820, and in 1816 Leyland & Bullins Bank was established. (In 1901 this
bank amalgamated with the North & South Wales Bank). Two of Thomas
Leyland's great nephews, the brothers Richard Christopher Leyland and
John Leyland, were partners in Leyland & Bullins Bank. Both bought
estates in Wales, respectively, Nant Clwyd, Denbighshire, (now the
home of Richard's descendant, Sir Philip Naylor Leyland) in 1843 and
Leighton, Montgomeryshire in 1849.

It was in 1888, at the Leighton estate, that a hybrid conifer was
discovered. The parents of the Leighton hybrid had been introduced
to Britain some years earlier from the west coast of North America.
They were the Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa, which grows
near Monterey, California, and the giant Nootka cypress, Chamaecyparis
nootkatensis, which thrives a thousand miles to the north in the
Pacific temperate rain forest, often growing to over 200ft (60m) tall.

http://www.northwales.nccpg.info/nwgnl-16.html

quote


michael adams

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