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Originally Posted by dguntertrees  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.
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Neat story about the scaffolding. I ve heard of stuff like that before with hedges (prob Leylands). We aimed a few LC's up at the sky today and will put another 12 in a row tomorrow. Those I will be able to set my picker right next to so I can beat them back.
Thanks for the info. I think around here they also will get the bagworms. A particular ly nasty little creature that if you don t get it at the right time (and that is elusive) then the little fugger is in the bag and mature and you have to pick them all off.