"Tony Williams" wrote in message
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In article ,
Frank Watson wrote:


I'd think twice about a house with a solid evergreen
hedge..... the amount of labour, does it need ladders
to cut, and (most important) how much sunlight does
it block off the garden in winter.

Interesting comment. I share the view. When I lived in town I had a next
door neighbour who used a leylandii hedge as a bully tactic!
I lost a lot of light in my house and I learned the lesson.
When buying my next house I looked closely at the hedges , especially the
leyland before I bought.

Also re point about maintainance. I have such a hedge bounding my current
property. Its a b*gger . I need large ladders to get up to it from my land.
Ive just spent two weeks with two others helping to cut it down.

I now have a major bonfire heap! Its not just cutting. Its disposal of the
waste.

A couple of years ago my neighbour on the other side of this hedge ( I dont
have near neighbours btw) put his house up for sale. It didnt sell. Its been
on the market for the whole of two years.

A few weeks ago he approached me asking if he could have the leyland cut
down to about three feet because he had no light in his house!
Now I didnt know this because as I said, he isnt a "near" neighbour and Ive
never been on his property!
Anyway, I helped him cut it down and realised how close he was built to
that boundary.

Two weeks later he sold his house.
So it could indeed have an effect.

By the way, so severe is the cut back on this hedge, I suspect I am going to
have to replace it with something ..... I think its not going to survive the
cut.
Thats another problem with leylandii. It grows out and up and dies back in
the centre. It will not recover from the old wood ( unlike private for
example) so its not possible to keep it cut and to one height permanently.
It will always creep up and eventually be out of control.