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Old 27th April 2008, 12:48 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Default Re: To TOP or Not to TOP

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Originally Posted by arbdog View Post
I dont want people to think im a hack, I spend hours carefully pruning trees correctly! But we do "top" conifers ( layland cypress ( x Cupressocyparis leylandii)) which people have planted and they have grown too tall or conifer hedges when they have frown too tall and that is the only exeption! Anyway there only scanky conifers and this is the only way to maintain them in a urban area! Wrong trees in the wrong place.
Arbdog, wondered if you could tell me why this a skanky conifer. They are starting to turn up in retail nurseries around here and look kind of nice in a young healthy state. Leyland Cypress
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