Hedge removal project in my backyard today. My regular gardener sent two guys to cut down my overgrown hedge. It was about 6-7’ high, approx. 25-30’ long and a good 12" thick! They took about 3 hours to cut down, remove, clean up and had to haul ALL this hedge away in their not-so-large truck.
$150 but worth it. It had become way too thick, and apparently had never sufficiently attached itself to the wall, which is why it was falling away and collapsing. It had become more root than hedge. The fact that the hedge didn’t attach to the wall very well, could be because I had painted it a few years back. It just fell away like wallpaper before it’s glued!
They used a gas powered chain saw and even that was barely cutting it at certain points. Glad it’s gone, but it’ll keep growing from the next house over, so I’ll have to keep cutting it as it starts to grow back.
in front of my house I had the bad idea to plant a pyracantha hedge
it has grown wildly and it needs a cut every fortnight! I hate that + I get wounds from bad thorns! (though it is beautiful in winter : read berries all over).
I want to get rid of it but is has grown into trees: I will cut it but will not be able to uproot it … what can I do to poison the roots without poisoning other plants?
in my backyard I inherited a 40 m long hedge of spindle trees (is that the name: I don’t know for sure). Here it grows wildly again, it is often full of white fungus that makes me sick when I breathe … I cannot cut it down completely for different reasons but need to make it small and slow in growth … any magic to slow down growth? any magic to kill fungus without poisoning me and my grand-children?
Hah wow, that is an intense hedge. I like how it comes off in one huge ‘sheet’, makes it look like it wasn’t too tough a job! (though I’m sure it still was :o)
There are some specialized herbicides that are ment to be injected into a tree under the bark. I think that that would be a lot of work for a hedge that is a whole bunch of shrubs.
Not sure but I think that you aught to be able to paint the stumps with some sort of herbicide while they are still wet and the poison should be pulled down into the roots. You want to get the herbicide in the “floam” between the bark and the sapwood.
I should have paid more attention in my urban foresty class.
That artist is a GENIUS!
