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from Sacha contains these words:

The first look like lilies and the second, dwarf conifers.
With regard to your leylandii, you'll find that when you get rid of them,
you have more garden than you thought you had! Their spread is as awesome
as their height *and* nothing grows beneath them. I cut down a row of these
and gained about 6' of garden width.

The Leyland cypress hedge between me and next door takes about eighteen
inches of ground, and rises to the majestic height of seven feet.

I have just rerouted a clematis into it, and I intend planting two
wisterias each about a third the length from the end.

It grows out of the conifer most spectacularly, and the boring thug is
persuaded into something quite interesting and protective.

Oh, and as for nothing growing beneath them, I have two things - nay,
three. Brambles, goosegrass, and more usefully, Agaracus augustus.

I shall be keeping the area moist this summer/autumn!

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from Ronald Hickey contains these words:

How difficult looking at those pictures would it be to remove those,
they are quite small, could I yank them out without specialist
equipment?

If you can't get the roots out easily, just cut the beasts down to as
near the ground as you can. They don't regenerate like some trees. (Or
at least, I've never known them to have done.)

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On Sun, 11 May 2003, Anthony E Anson wrote:

The Leyland cypress hedge between me and next door takes about eighteen
inches of ground, and rises to the majestic height of seven feet.

I have just rerouted a clematis into it, and I intend planting two
wisterias each about a third the length from the end.

(How) do you intend to synchronise the pruning of these plants with
the Leylandii?

Interested,

Kostas

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from Kostas Kavoussanakis contains these words:
On Sun, 11 May 2003, Anthony E Anson wrote:

The Leyland cypress hedge between me and next door takes about eighteen
inches of ground, and rises to the majestic height of seven feet.

I have just rerouted a clematis into it, and I intend planting two
wisterias each about a third the length from the end.

(How) do you intend to synchronise the pruning of these plants with
the Leylandii?

Interested,

That's it. Mainly pruning rather than clipping, and clipping during the
winter.

Keep your fingers crossed!

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