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Damaged hedging with strimmer! Help!

  • 19-07-2016 07:25PM
    #1
    Mafra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭


    Hi, does anyone have any advice please on damaged bark on beech hedging? The bark was cut with a strimmer on lots of the bushes. It was only sown last winter and they are about 4 high.
    I had a guy cut the lawn and only noticed when I cut it myself today. He obviously trimmed the edges with a strimmer. ( I wasn't there) It could have happened a couple of months ago but the most recent timeframe it could have happened was about a month ago. It's all still alive but will it eventually die as a result or is there something I can do at this late stage?
    I'd really appreciate any advice. I'm gutted! 😞


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  • #2
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,472 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If the bark was only cut on one side, which presumably it was, with a strimmer, you will probably get away with it. It will probably form a callus in the bark but the bark usually needs to be cut all with way round to kill a tree. I don't think there is anything you can, or should, do at this stage.


  • #3
    Gautama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭Gautama


    I moved into my house last year and there is a beech hedge that's about 5 years old. It's made up of about 60 plants. Most of them have strimmer damage from the previous occupants. Two failed last year and I've lost one so far this year, presumable for the strimmer damage. The bark itself seems to be peeling back beyond the original damage so I expect to lose a few more over the coming years.
    Strimmers should not be used near young trees.

    I suggest you point this out to the guy that did it.


  • #4
    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    I have seen an article, some years ago which showed how to repair damage to a tree which had had the bark cut all the way round; you had to take a patch of bark from nearby on the trunk and quickly and carefully insert it across the gap, taping it up to keep it in place until it 'took'


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