Hi,
If anyone can help me I would be really grateful.
I don't get on with my neighbours and they are really driving me mad,
what I need is a fast growing tall (10 foot plus) hedge to block out
the view of the awful people.
Any suggestions would be great as I have no idea.Definatly an
evergreen, I don't mind if it has flowers or not. Just the speed of
growth is most important.
I need to erect something on the boundry before I explode!
Thanks very much.

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Hi,
If anyone can help me I would be really grateful.
I don't get on with my neighbours and they are really driving me mad,
what I need is a fast growing tall (10 foot plus) hedge to block out
the view of the awful people.
Any suggestions would be great as I have no idea.Definatly an
evergreen, I don't mind if it has flowers or not. Just the speed of
growth is most important.
I need to erect something on the boundry before I explode!
Thanks very much.

Why not the ever unpopular Leylandii cyprus....will need some pruning at 15
feet.....plant 'em closer than most suggest and pretty soon you will have
what you want.....give them some rich soil and water them well and the
growth might be explosive....

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If anyone can help me I would be really grateful.
I don't get on with my neighbours and they are really driving me mad,
what I need is a fast growing tall (10 foot plus) hedge to block out
the view of the awful people.
Any suggestions would be great as I have no idea.Definatly an
evergreen, I don't mind if it has flowers or not. Just the speed of
growth is most important.
I need to erect something on the boundry before I explode!

Leylandii. But someone will be along soon to:

a) say "Yeuch!"

b) there are regulation now about the height a hedge may grow tp without
the agreement of both neighbours. I can't remember what it is, but it
should be sufficient.

c) point out that you'll probably have to see them as you trim the top...

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Legal limit that hedges can be grown to without complaint is 6 feet,
grow it any higher and your neighbour could complain, and if you don't
trim it down you may get an order telling you to, or the council will
do it and send you the bill.


Sorry, not 'quite' true :-((

Legal limit that hedges can be grown to without complaint is 6 feet,
grow it any higher and your neighbour could complain, and if you don't
trim it down you may get an order telling you to, or the council will
do it and send you the bill.

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Legal limit that hedges can be grown to without complaint is 6 feet,
grow it any higher and your neighbour could complain, and if you don't
trim it down you may get an order telling you to, or the council will
do it and send you the bill.

Am I glad we have no such rule.....had a similar problem 6 years
ago....noisy b*****and their swimming pool...up went Leylandii.....two
metres at planting....we just stayed for two years and by that time they
were close to four metres.....took a peek at them a few weeks ago and they
were over 8 metres.....the new owners intend letting them grow and
grow.....not much sunlight getting into the swimpool these days....H

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wrote in message
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Legal limit that hedges can be grown to without complaint is 6 feet,
grow it any higher and your neighbour could complain, and if you don't
trim it down you may get an order telling you to, or the council will
do it and send you the bill.

Am I glad we have no such rule.....

why do people come out with such stupid statements? :-(((

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wrote in message
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Legal limit that hedges can be grown to without complaint is 6 feet,
grow it any higher and your neighbour could complain, and if you don't
trim it down you may get an order telling you to, or the council will
do it and send you the bill.

Am I glad we have no such rule.....

why do people come out with such stupid statements? :-(((

Which statement is stupid?

Legal limit that hedges can be grown to without complaint is 6 feet,
grow it any higher and your neighbour could complain, and if you
don't
trim it down you may get an order telling you to, or the council will
do it and send you the bill.


Which statement is stupid?

I know exactly how you feel, living next door to a single mum and all the
dross that she drags home every weekend. You can hide it all behind a hedge,
but unfortunately all the filthy language used at the other side of the
hedge still comes through. Try Leyllandi. (Think iv'e spelt it right)
wrote in message
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Hi,
If anyone can help me I would be really grateful.
I don't get on with my neighbours and they are really driving me mad,
what I need is a fast growing tall (10 foot plus) hedge to block out
the view of the awful people.
Any suggestions would be great as I have no idea.Definatly an
evergreen, I don't mind if it has flowers or not. Just the speed of
growth is most important.
I need to erect something on the boundry before I explode!
Thanks very much.

[Russian Vine, can get a bit out of control if not cut back yearly. Pyracantha, orange or bright red berries in the winter. Berberis, beautiful tiny clumps of orange flowers in the spring. Deep green leaves. An evergreen honeysuckle. Winter and summer jasmine. Beautiful heavenly scents. Put a fence up on your side of the boundary and plant the above. They take a while to get established but you will be amply rewarded with a professional display which will give you hours of enjoyment, cascade over the top to calm and sooth your annoying neighbours. Try to avoid the Leyllandi it can quickly become an expensive mistake. Robs the garden of light and robs the soil of nutrients and water and can cause your garden to become waterlogged in the winter making the ground stagnant killing off the grass too. It is a native of a hot climate and only recently introduced to this country by the Victorians.]

I know exactly how you feel, living next door to a single mum and all the
dross that she drags home every weekend. You can hide it all behind a hedge,
but unfortunately all the filthy language used at the other side of the
hedge still comes through. Try Leyllandi. (Think iv'e spelt it right)
wrote in message
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Hi,
If anyone can help me I would be really grateful.
I don't get on with my neighbours and they are really driving me mad,
what I need is a fast growing tall (10 foot plus) hedge to block out
the view of the awful people.
Any suggestions would be great as I have no idea.Definatly an
evergreen, I don't mind if it has flowers or not. Just the speed of
growth is most important.
I need to erect something on the boundry before I explode!
Thanks very much.
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Isn't 6 foot enough? You can put up a 6 foot fence without planning permission, and get blockage of the view immediately. Even if there is an existing 3ft chain link fence on the boundary, nothing to stop you putting up your own fence a few inches inside your property.

The law on hedge height control is very long-winded. To force you to reduce the height of a hedge, they have to be willing to go through a long process, and 6 ft is your minimum, in many situations you are allowed more, it is all about how much light you are taking from them. So, unless your hedge is very annoying, you will frequently get away with 10 ft.

Leylandii is the traditional super-fast-growing hedge, but they also fairly quckly become problems. They often become a source of dispute between neighbours. Growing a leylandii hedge could be just what you need to do to get on even worse with your neighbours. If you fail to maintain it every year, and then want to manage it back to the intended size, it doesn't work, it becomes an eyesore.

Laurel (or any of the similar things) is just about as fast growing, and has the advantage that it is easily renovated if you ever neglect it for a while. Cut it back hard as you like, and it grows back. I also find it just as easy to maintain as the coniferous hedges my neighbours have planted and thus forced me to maintain.

In fact there are several other broadleaf evergreen that are as good as, or better than, laurel. There are several kinds of berberis that make really attractive hedges, and several are evergreen, and some of those are as fast-growing as laurel. Some are a bit thorny, though. My neighbour has a pyracantha hedge that looks very good, though the growth on it looks a bit tougher than on my laurel hedge, so might be harder work. I also inherited a bit of Viburnum tinus hedge - you have to prune this with discretion to get it to flower, lovely perfume when it does, prune just after flowering; and when it does get overgrown the wood is very hard. Bit smelly at other times of year though - subject to the depradations of an insect that makes holes in the leaves, and gives off a nasty niff.

The other think to bear in mind is that the back of hedges needs pruning. If your neighbours insist you should prune their side of your hedge, in theory you ought to, though probably difficult to force you to. Though if you volunteer, and they are happy to let you do it, it might improve neighbourly relations.