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  • 26-04-2008 01:19AM
    #1
    the GALL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭


    The neighbour planted 150 of these bad boy's around there perimeter there's loads of land and that's not a problem but as we're on a wind swept plain there takin a battin... so what's the solution heavy stakes and strap them to it or....?........ there strapped nto bamboo stakes as is in a bed fillred with pea/ish gravel....... all help would greatly be appriecated in a neighbourly kind of way
    thanks in advance.


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  • #2
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    the GALL wrote: »
    The neighbour planted 150 of these bad boy's around there perimeter there's loads of land and that's not a problem but as we're on a wind swept plain there takin a battin... so what's the solution heavy stakes and strap them to it or....?........ there strapped nto bamboo stakes as is in a bed fillred with pea/ish gravel....... all help would greatly be appriecated in a neighbourly kind of way
    thanks in advance.

    I hope they realise what they are doing. I read somewhere that Wexford Co. Co. are waging a campaign against Leylandii. Anyway, is there a perimeter fence? if so, I've always found the best solution is fine mesh netting, (the green stuff, and not the rigid type) fixed to the fence gives excellent protection to saplings, this filters the wind rather than blocks it.
    If there is no fence you can apply the same principle using wooden stakes. Don't go to the garden centre for the mesh, use a good Builders providers for the type builders use as dust screens.


  • #3
    bauderline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭bauderline


    One thing to note is that if your neighbor does not "top" these yokes in about 10 years time one good storm and the whole shebang will be uprooted.

    Best not let them get much over 8 foot ....

    B.


  • #4
    the GALL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭the GALL


    Cheers lads

    and while I have ya there B
    should he lob them every year to thickin out and if so what time of year
    thanks
    Roy


  • #5
    Reyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Reyman


    You're not allowed plant Leylandii in a lot of areas of England. They're regarded as a total menace.

    Tell your neighbour he'll be hacking at them for the rest of his life!


  • #6
    artieanna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭artieanna


    Reyman wrote: »
    You're not allowed plant Leylandii in a lot of areas of England. They're regarded as a total menace.

    Tell your neighbour he'll be hacking at them for the rest of his life!

    I Agree I must say
    If they get ahead of you at all they can look awful untidy when cut back and he will get sick hacking at them.


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