leylandii again...

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      This always seems a bit ridiculous to me, there are rules about what height you are allowed to have a fence and what height you can build an extension to and yet HUGE trees are allowed to stay!! :dunno: I think sabotage would come to my mind!!! :whistle:
       
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      There's no such thing as bad leylandii just bad owners;) I had a beautiful hedge of them and kept them at just under 6 feet for 20 years:smile:
       
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        There will just be 20ft of bare trunks left when they are hacked back to 20ft.

        My leylandii hedge is 25 years old and 8ft tall.

        I think a new law is coming in in Scotland this year where a boundary hedge including 2 or more trees can be trimmed back to 2m if they are posing a nuisance.

        I may well be wrong ?
         
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        Another good law, no tall hedges and no air guns, I always have admired the Scottish.
         
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