Conifers pruned

[Kylonewton]

Hi All,

I hired a handyman to trim back the trees in the picture attached. He did it while I was away and just came back to this….guessing they’re ruined? Or anyone got any ideas on how I can help to rejuvenate them?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ETAF]

my understanding with conifers & lylandii is if you cut back to the old brown wood , it will never grow from there
Not sure what can be done , most online gardening forums.advice say - if cut back to brown no recovery

 

[aveatry]

Looks too much too late to me but I do see some green still there and over time hopefully that should grow and cover but then it will be big like it was.

 

[lloyda]

Doubt they will ever come back green, and if they do, it will take quite a few years. Dig them out now and replace with something else.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Take it all out and plant a Cherry Laurel hedge.

Andy

 

[blup]

Hi All,

I hired a handyman to trim back the trees in the picture attached. He did it while I was away and just came back to this….guessing they’re ruined? Or anyone got any ideas on how I can help to rejuvenate them?

Thanks in advance.

It wont grow back green, i guess your handyman has learned his lesson, did you pay him? Laurels grow strongly once established, and will take heavy pruning

 

[StephenStephen]

Is it leylandii (which will not grow back) or thuga (which could) ?

Unfortunately it does look like leylandii...

 

[Fred Blogs]

It's leylandii, an invasive species which should be cut down and burned and then banned countrywide. The way that is now it will never green up again. Take it down, get the roots out and put up a nice fence. Oh and if you, or anyone else for that matter, employ a handyman or even, so called, tradesman, keep a damn good eye on them so they do exactly what you want and not what they think you want. You are paying them not the other way round.

 

[jj4091]

Give it until October before you write it off.

 

[lostinthelight]

If the tips of the growth arch over its the dreaded one but if upright,has coarse sections and smells of citrus its thuja and usually grows back , post a close up pic of the growth tips

 

[scbk]

Best thing for that is cheap green fence paint and a sprayer.

 

[scbk]

It's leylandii, an invasive species which should be cut down and burned and then banned countrywide. The way that is now it will never green up again. Take it down, get the roots out and put up a nice fence. Oh and if you, or anyone else for that matter, employ a handyman or even, so called, tradesman, keep a damn good eye on them so they do exactly what you want and not what they think you want. You are paying them not the other way round.

I have my doubts it's Leyland Cypress, by the shape of the branches.
It's not an invasive species - it's sterile!
It's just a fast growing hybrid tree.