Decorating Leyandladii

I think they spread out, fan like over a wide distance, rather than far down.

Vile things - chop them down as quick as you can!

 

They stretch, with a few breaks, the full 70 metres of the side of the plot. I was thinking maybe a match... :thumb:

Cheers
Richard

 

I know this has happened to at least one specimen. My father-in-law's neighbours weren't exactly keen gardeners, but they did believe in planting loads of Leylandi and then leaving them completely unchecked. The wretched things ended up dwarfing everything else and putting the garden into a permanent Total Eclipse. Then, one windy night, a particularly fine specimen blew into my FIL's garden, flattening a greenhouse in the process. The offending monster didn't seem to have an extensive root system.

 

They can be a pain to take out. Make sure you have an axe and a pickaxe when you do it. I think laurel is pretty horrid as well. grows fast and the leaves are a pain to deal with when you cut them cause they don't seem to rot away. i have to cut some laurels at my mother in laws. I hate them only slightly less than leylandii.
i prefer beech. It grows fast but always seems easier to cut to my mind and you can get a nice dense hedge that is only a foot thick - you cannot do that with the evergreens. It also changes colour with the seasons. It looks nice in winter with the brown leaves catching the winter sunlight and the colour of the new leaves at the moment is absolutely gorgeous....and the leaves make good leaf mould or compost. There is only a few weeks when you can see through it, when the new shoots push off the dead leaves but that is far outweighed by the advantages.

 

I'm a huge fan of beech hedges as well, especially the 'two tone' layout with alternating green and copper. A bit more slow growing, but worth it

 

Sorry for the delay, but here's the climbing Nasturtiums. I.m trying to cover that fence. The little red flowers are poppies (Ladybird). I love them.
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Looks like William Morris to me. Nature imitating art :D

Cheers
Richard

 

Yes, I know what you mean Richard . But we had only been in this house 1 year and starting a garden from nothing - well from gravel and grass.
It's not our final planting scheme - more of anything that would hide that fence while deciding on a more suitable arrangement. It did the job.

 

We cut back our neighbours leylandi back to the brown as it was so invasive in our garden and blocked all sunlight! We now have a montana and jasmine climbing from either side - we've gone for nic jasmine smell but as its slow(ish) growing the montana is the immediate (and rather pretty currently!) coverage - its starting to look nicer already. We have found we have to tinker with the montana to make sure we get full coverage but just pop out once a week and thread it nice and low :-)