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dguntertrees · 29th April 2008, 05:26 PM

Yep they were all the rage in UK too...thats the problem.
I think the Thuja is a much nicer tree all round, don't know about salt tolerance tho'.

I know that Leyland foliage dies off if exposed continuously to road de-icing salt though. And it won't grow back.

Possible P+D includes: Armillaria (honey fungus), Heterobasidium annosum (root and butt rot); Coryneum canker (to bark and cambium); Shoot blight, Aphid damage, mined shoots, drought, honeydew and sooty moulds.

I have to say though that they are pretty tough old things. I know a few people back in England who used to do leyland hedging as a specialty and they would create a wooden walkway along the top of the hedge by attaching scaffold planks to the top of the cut stems, they could then walk along the top of the trees trimming the regrowth at about a metre from the top of the stem with their hedge trimmers. Looked fantastic and there was never any discernible damage or associated problems that I saw.

DeeGee

29th April 2008, 05:26 PM	#59 (permalink)
dguntertrees Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Mudgeeraba, SE Queensland Posts: 127	Re: To TOP or Not to TOP Yep they were all the rage in UK too...thats the problem. I think the Thuja is a much nicer tree all round, don't know about salt tolerance tho'. I know that Leyland foliage dies off if exposed continuously to road de-icing salt though. And it won't grow back. Possible P+D includes: Armillaria (honey fungus), Heterobasidium annosum (root and butt rot); Coryneum canker (to bark and cambium); Shoot blight, Aphid damage, mined shoots, drought, honeydew and sooty moulds. I have to say though that they are pretty tough old things. I know a few people back in England who used to do leyland hedging as a specialty and they would create a wooden walkway along the top of the hedge by attaching scaffold planks to the top of the cut stems, they could then walk along the top of the trees trimming the regrowth at about a metre from the top of the stem with their hedge trimmers. Looked fantastic and there was never any discernible damage or associated problems that I saw. DeeGee