How To Cut A Overgrown Privet Hedge Over A Three Year Period & Get It Back To Its Former Glory (596)
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- ♻️May Bank Holiday Weekend ♻️In my work duties I come across house holders with Privet hedges that are encroaching the public highway and they haven't a clue how to go about cutting it back without killing it or making every side an eyesore so we can surface the paths so I would like to share my personal experiences withmy Privet hedge.
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Over here in France you are not allowed to cut any hedges or trees until the end of July due to birds nesting
I did a full inspection before I took the top off and never found any nests each year that I cut more away and the restrictions have been increased in the UK.
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Pinned your comment as its important that we check first before we cut and forgot to mention it in the video.
Not a bad thing at all :-) 🍺
Good tip
There’s different rules here for ‘commercial hedges’ and ‘private hedges’ commercial hedge cutting season (which is near enough everything that isn’t on residential land) stops end of March. You can cut your private hedge whenever you want but you must check first, it is a technically a crime if you disturb a nest still.
On Nantucket in MA, USA and looking for exactly this. Have two hedge entryways to the yards and the previous occupants let them grow in too far so now they’re at awkward angles. Will cut them back hard when we leave at and of summer. Thank you!
Good luck and do a bit or side at a time the hedge does recover better to get the size or shape you need.
As a kid, privet hedges where everywhere, sadly now they are few and far between. I remember keeping stick insects and feeding them on privet. A nicely clipped privet hedge can hold it's own against any good lawn. We done for keeping this going and giving it a new lease of life 👍
Its so easy to put up a wooden fence and this way it costs nothing to maintain, free hedge cutter helps.
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Thanks Terry. We have box hedging, once cut with electric cutters. Now i gently do with a scissors, i only prune it really after that big cut.
Thanks for sharing your methods and thoughts Lorraine.
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Excellent pinned comment. Probably wouldn't even thought about it until it was to late.
Cheers
The pinned comments are a good source of information.
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You did it really good. I know that it was a difficult work. Have a beautiful day
Last time I did this I thought it was the last, but doing it over 3 years helps to make it look reasonably good.
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Crazy improvements in 5 years !!
It does look nice now my friend's.
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You can't beat a well trimmed hedge 😉
Really nice to look at and smells good too 😉.
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Youve done a cracking job here Terry, nice one!
Lots of my videos are used by many for reference so get many views over the years and this was worth sharing.
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I love having a privit, all around my front garden, saves you replacing fencing, and helps with drainage, my privit is old around 40yrs plus, I dont enjoy the hard work of cutting it, but if done regular is easier in long run
That is awesome and mine could be 60 years old and still doing well.
Hi Terry
I wish I had a hedge. Very interesting watch, when I do finally get a hedge I'll know how to prune it.
Take care
Becky
We planted a new one in the garden and it doesn't take long to get established.
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I dont use the sheeting, I pick it up with my mower it hoovers it up great and chops it up perfect for the compost bin, Privet is a great hedging material you can really chop it hard and it will come back.
all the best
Rich
Hello Rich, how do you find it breaks down as I have never composted privet before?
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@@terrykingsallotmentgardening It breaks dowm really in a hot compost pile because of all the green leaves, if it is composted cold it does take a while but you have a great mix of brown and green. I have tipped it back out on the path and gone over it again with the mower a second time to really chop it up. Try it one time you will be suprised
all the best
Rich
Thank you Rich.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Catherine.
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You did a great job, Terry. Looking grand!
Cheers Mike, my wife does an inspection after I have finished cutting so well worth doing a good job.
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Nice one Terry. I was wondering how to do mine thank you for sharing
Pleased you got something from this as its not so daunting as it looks.
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Awesome job done Mr. Terry!
Cheers CB and Rene.
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I keep my bush Brazilian ;-)nuff said
I favour the french wax myself, le landing strip.
@@PetalsonthePavingSlabs I got mine in the hospital but i kept it as every time the wife sees it she is laughing. when she is laughing I am half way there ;-)
Does it need a close inspection Dave for nesting birds or other critters.....lol.
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@@terrykingsallotmentgardening Its like a sea food party ;-)
That's the brilliant thing about privet you can be really brutal and it'll still come back
Could do it all in one year, but I like to keep it reasonably tidy.
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It always looks worse before it looks better Terry, nice job mate :-) 🍺
It was making it difficult to walk down the path so the time was right. Cheers.
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Thank you for the info Terry. You speak about intertwining stems and I've just done a heavy restoration of my 50+ year old hedge. A lot of stems had started rubbing and burning one another so leading to a risk of infection. Not a problem anymore as I've been brutal but I'd be interested in your views. Cheers.
Hello Jim, I haven't had any issues in the 3 times that I've done this and it's a hedging that is hard to kill. Good luck with yours my friend.
@@terrykingsallotmentgardening Hi Terry, thank you for the inf2i and good wishes. Cheers Jim
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great
Cheers.
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Years back I cut my overgrown hedge down to 2feet using just sheers as it grows back I tucked in all outward branches by year 3 it was 4 feet and under control.
This is the second time I have done this and we have issues at work with hedges that over grown the footpaths and the owners didn't realise that the hedge would grow back after a good Pruning so this what inspired me to blog this.
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Top top always cut your hedge on a windy day so you don't have to sweep up.
Lol
Done that before Grant, but then the wife wants it all picking up......lol.
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put a blanket down first...good tip thx
I have a sheet of plastic, saves lots of time.
Hi! Is this a common privet or wild privet
Well you have got me there, I would imagine it is a common privet Stuart, is there a massive difference?
Is there a better time of year to trim them? Spring or fall? Not for birds but just for the life of the hedge itself?
I personally believe that it's best done just before it starts to grow Luke after the chance of frost so it puts its energy into new growth which has worked for me.
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I've got lots ivy in my hedge , should I pull it out or just leave it and keep trimming the hedge back
Me personally I would remove as much as I could as it will eventually strangle your hedge.
Happy gardening, Terry.
What's the right time of year to really hardly cut back hedge
I would wait till after the last frosts in Spring, early summer so it had all summer to regrow Mack.
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@@terrykingsallotmentgardening ok thanks
Hi Terry, I have pruned my hedge topping it off as it was too high at the end of March but it still looks bare, do you know how long it will take before new growth will come back? Thanks
You should see signs of life very soon and it will take 2 years to fill out, just done an update on my hedge if you haven't already seen it so should help you.
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Terry King's Allotment Gardening On A Budget thanks I will check it out now.