Ich habe diese Hecke, die an der Seite der Garage wächst. Es wird mit dem Nachbarn geteilt – sein Teil beginnt dort, wo es am Mülleimer hervorsteht. Das Problem ist, dass ich keinen grünen Daumen habe und daher nicht weiß, was ich damit machen soll. Soll ich jemanden bezahlen, der es aufräumt? Mähen sie gleich zurück, damit ich etwas Gras anbauen kann? Sollte ich versuchen, es abzutöten und auszugraben? Wenn ja, womit ersetze ich es? Ich schätze Ihre Gedanken.
Von: KingusUK
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Chainsaw, it needs brutal.
Cottoneaster.
You could maybe give it a very light trim in early Spring and remove any deadwood you see. I don’t know how well they react to hard pruning.
I would ask myself how much time will I have to maintain what I replace it with?
As it currently is, I am guessing this takes little to no maintenance time. If you replace it with almost anything else, you are potentially looking at increasing your gardening activities. Is that what you want to do?
Can you post a picture which is more close-up, showing leaves and berries(?)
It looks a bit like a cotoneaster to me but I’m really not sure.
If so, you can trim with a hedge trimmer in quite heavily in late winter. Up to a third is the typical suggestion but it will probably cope with more if you want to really reshape it. It should then grow back in a more appealing manner.
Try it, see if you are happy with it. If not, then you can think about something different.
If it’s not a cotoneaster, to be frank many hedges can be treated the same way. But with a clear ID you can be sure.
leave it, don’t birds like it?
It just needs a tidy up, you don’t need green fingers just some gloves and garden loppers and hour or two and it would be back under control.
Why remove it and replace it with grass or something else.
You can trim this once or twice a year. Plus all the wildlife would love the berries and the home its providing them.
Grass would need more maintenance and any ither hedge you grow there will also need trimming.
Just neaten it up and jobs a gud’un
Frank Reynolds uses a magnum for his monster
I think it’s cotoneaster judging by the berries, it can be a bit of a bully if it’s not hacked back every now and again. Just lop it lightly back into shape, pull out as much of that straggly grass as you can and it’ll look a lot better. You’ll probably want loppers and a hedgecutter or sharp shears unless it’s got really big in which case a chainsaw or pruning saw. Most folk seem to recommend doing renovation pruning over a couple of years, so don’t go too mad in one go. Once it’s trimmed you can just go over it as and when, much less faff than grass and it keeps the peasants off your driveway. The birdies enjoy it as well so it’s much nicer for wildlife than some muddy grass that dogs pee all over.
[https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/cotoneaster](https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/cotoneaster)
Just trim it back. Get a cheap hedge trimmer.
Leave it . It looks great . Iv bought a cotoneaster in the hopes it does the same
It’s Cotoneaster and will come back fine after a hard pruning. Just prune it back to where you want it.
Technically that’s a shrub not a hedgerow
If it is Cotoneaster as many here have suggested, it’s also worth mentioning that it’s an invasive non-native species in the UK: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/trees-and-shrubs/cotoneaster
I say that to inform, rather than because I think you should get rid of it. I definitely don’t think you should replace it with grass. Woody shrubs in an urban environment offer habitat/refuge for a variety of wildlife, and they store more carbon than grass too!
As others have suggested – I agree, keep it rather than remove it. Having more grass to maintain and keep tidy wouldn’t be a major benefit.
For now, you can tidy it up by removing any dead branches, and cut back the taller branches growing up the side of the garage (if you want to) and possibly give it a very light overall trim to give a neater shape for the coming months. Then in early Spring before it starts growing again (possibly mid to late February depending on where you live) you can prune up to around 1/3rd to reduce the size – and shape it to how you’d like it. You don’t really need ‘green fingers’, even if you make a mistake it will grow back strongly and quickly!
One option is having it completely removed, then prepare the ground for blue slate or white stones to sit on top of a ground sheet. From that moment on you have zero maintenence and somewhere to put the bins. Or just a nice tidy property line.
Or you trim it regularly.
Get a hedgetrimmer and prune it, Google when the best time of year for it is. There is an app called “picture this” that will tell you what plant it is.
I guarantee that giving it a trim once a year is less effort than maintaining a lawn.
Nobody starts off with green fingers either. I’d say I’m good at gardening and all I’ve ever done is use that app and then the rhs website for advice on what to do with the plant
Is that Japanese Knot Hedge of Heaven?
Is that Japanese Knot Hedge of Heaven?
Think of all the wildlife that might have homes in there. I’d leave it.
I bet there’s all kinds of wildlife living there, I’d leave it
You can give cotoneaster a deep trim. It’s a source of food and shelter for wildlife; bees feed on the flowers, birds build nests and hide inside it, and eat the berries, hedgehogs hide in it as well. Shame if you removed it. Good trim twice a year is less work than replacing with grass that needs a biweekly mow.
Find the points where it is coming from and take it given half a foot grace.
When you pull it you’ll find allot of it has runner. Decided if you want separate growth. It will grow new but some will fail so keep you should keep on top of it and get at the dead before the new over grows it.
Gives you the option of changing the landscape but provides new consistent work or it will goto shite quickly. Tonn of waste. Etc. How much weed and grass is layden in yhe ground. More work to keep smart.
Or just run a hedge cutter and shape it. Line then over hang straight and it will look good and tidy after two of three trims. New growth will look lush but some heavy removal would also give the plants new figure.
If you try to remove it, you more than likely will be unsuccessful. It will pop up all over the shop. Even pops through the path given enough reason. Very determined plant. Its got bird to feed after all.
Embrace it
Trim it into a crocodile shape!
I really appreciate all the comments, thank you. It sounds like persisting and trimming it is the best way to go. I’m not off to spend far too long ogling at long handle trimmers – mine doesn’t reach far enough. Thank you all again
Just cut the parts that stick out by the bin. The hedgerow looks nice and benefits wildlife.
So I can’t help you on the gardening front, but my husband recognised the street straight away and said that as a stupid teenager he used to jump into that bush. Twenty odd years ago now, so glad to see it’s still going strong, even if it’s unruly!
Hire/purchase a brushcutrer. Sweep up. Plant something els.
Literally an hours work and you’ve got and written up and big paragraph and asked the internet… sigh
Cut back what is growing out and ignore your neighbours problems.
Cheap add hedge trimmer will do this.
Electric hedge trimmers will soon take care of that. First cut will take you a while, but once it’s in shape, it will look great and it’s much less maintenance than grass. Couple of trims a year is all it needs.
Replace with some beautiful trees!