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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?

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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6

inches
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these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?

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Yep! Absolutely.
........ Unless, of course, he intends to keep them trimmed to 2 feet
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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
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prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?


The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.

Mary

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Mary Fisher wrote:

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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?


The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.



Is there any hope at all of growin a reasonable hedge there, assuming
I prune it back over to her side ? I would have thought you'd want a
more bushy plant for such a thin hedge ?

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Mary Fisher wrote:

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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?


The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.



Is there any hope at all of growin a reasonable hedge there, assuming
I prune it back over to her side ? I would have thought you'd want a
more bushy plant for such a thin hedge ?


If you keep it cut back at your side it will look awful.

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Mary Fisher wrote:

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Mary Fisher wrote:

wrote in message
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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?

The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.



Is there any hope at all of growin a reasonable hedge there, assuming
I prune it back over to her side ? I would have thought you'd want a
more bushy plant for such a thin hedge ?


If you keep it cut back at your side it will look awful.



they've put some string across as if they are expecting the branches to
grow along it... not my experience with Leylandii, it just goes where
it wants to doesn't it ?

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In article . com,
" writes:
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| they've put some string across as if they are expecting the branches to
| grow along it... not my experience with Leylandii, it just goes where
| it wants to doesn't it ?

They clearly don't know their leylandii from their Lonicera.


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On 26 Oct 2006 08:51:21 -0700, "
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they've put some string across as if they are expecting the branches to
grow along it... not my experience with Leylandii, it just goes where
it wants to doesn't it ?


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Mary Fisher wrote:
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Mary Fisher wrote:

wrote in message
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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?

The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.



Is there any hope at all of growin a reasonable hedge there, assuming
I prune it back over to her side ? I would have thought you'd want a
more bushy plant for such a thin hedge ?


If you keep it cut back at your side it will look awful.


I'd move house now, before the things make the place harder to sell.
Let somebody else have the aggro.

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On 26 Oct 2006 08:53:15 -0700, "Mike Lyle"
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Mary Fisher wrote:
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Mary Fisher wrote:

wrote in message
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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?

The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.


Is there any hope at all of growin a reasonable hedge there, assuming
I prune it back over to her side ? I would have thought you'd want a
more bushy plant for such a thin hedge ?


If you keep it cut back at your side it will look awful.


I'd move house now, before the things make the place harder to sell.
Let somebody else have the aggro.


Don't talk rot.
I have a mature Leylandii hedge that is no more than 2 ft thick 6ft
high and around 20 ft long and it is perfect and causes no problems at
all.




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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:37:25 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
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prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?


The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.

Mary


Not necessarily

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Not necessarily


I heard this terrible story about some chap getting hold of old car
batteries and inverting them along his boundry fence. Apparantly it
killed the plants that next-door had planted, or something.

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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:37:25 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?


The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.

Mary


Not necessarily


Perhaps I should have said that it would if the hedge were not kept in
order.

We have a Leyland cypress and its trunk is well over a foot in diameter.
It's about thirty years old and is a solitary tree, not part of a hedge. It
does good work and doesn't affect any neighbour..

Mary



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Mary Fisher wrote:

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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:37:25 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
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My next door neighbour has planted a row of the things about 6 inches
away from my boundary, presumably I will have the right to keep these
prune off my side.. so isn't this a bit close ?

The trunk will eventually grow to be more than 6" diameter.

Mary


Not necessarily


Perhaps I should have said that it would if the hedge were not kept in
order.

We have a Leyland cypress and its trunk is well over a foot in diameter.
It's about thirty years old and is a solitary tree, not part of a hedge. It
does good work and doesn't affect any neighbour..

We cut one down a year or so ago that was 18" diameter and about 50ft
high. We've another twenty or so to go, they make good firewood for
our wood burner (if well seasoned) and there are other prettier trees
immediately behind them which will benefit from their going.

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