Founded in 2008. The Landscape Juice Network (LJN) is the largest and fastest growing professional landscaping and horticultural association in the United Kingdom.
LJN's professional business forum is unrivalled and open to anyone within within the UK landscape industry
LJN's Business Objectives Group (BOG) is for any Pro serious about building their business.
For the researching visitor there's a wealth of landscaping ideas, garden design ideas, lawn advice tips and advice about garden maintenance.
Replies
If the hedge is looking untidy with bits sticking up, I just trim it.......... any species....... If you trim it frequently, it looks nice all the time, thicken the hedge up and the whole job is really quick and easy with little mess to clear up. I find privets look nice once a month....... conifers every couple of months or so, beech hedges a couple of times a year. You must not "intentionally" disturb a birds nest in a hedge so if you are aware of one, you should give the hedge a miss for now. I've found birds very reluctant to nest in regularly trimmed hedges so not found much of a problem myself.
Conifer (leylandii type) once per year between October and December. Privet/Beech 2 trims per year in mid summer and again in the autumn. To keep them looking perfect one can do them more often but not when birds are nesting of course
can we discuss this 'any hedge' thing please??
Tim, I hear ya
Deffo wouldn't be taking that on lol
Omg!!!! Fair play to you for tackling that!!!
Canterbury's finest, very scary when close by wink wink
Seems a bit excessive Graham, hedges are great habitat for birds and we should be respecting this and trying to minimise disturbing them in the nesting season.
Thanks. That's one of my concerns. A client has asked me to trim a small privet hedge - they like it trimmed several times during the spring/summer, just the new growth to keep tidy. But this is during nesting season. The hedge is small enough to be able to have a good look for any activity however
-
1
-
2
-
3
of 3 Next