You know, if it's done right and is used in the service of an appropriate landscape for the site in question, I'm totally okay with sheared hedges. It's the mishmash of formal, informal, and just plain unplanned landscaping you see so much, at least on this side of the big pond, that gives some sheared hedge work a bad name. Oh, and the fact that nine out of ten monkeys have no idea what they're doing!

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big toys... yeah sure...

but having the dude running them on retainer would be best ... two more down below cleaning up the mess .. lol ...

for sure.. its a lot of work .. you know all i want to do is make peeps aware of the work they are signing up for ... all the power to them.. if they want the job ...

ken

It was in the grounds of a 17th century house. The guy works all year round just looking after the trees, shrubs and hedges. His wife does the gardens.

I wish I had those in my backyard -- such nice privacy!

A good example of a situation where anything but a tightly sheared hedge would fail. There are places for such.

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