HELP! Hey all, I'm really worried for my trees. I asked landscaper to trim off the fence line and he completely obliterated the midsection. Will these recover? I believe they are Leyland Cypress.
by Ready_Thought1370
HELP! Hey all, I'm really worried for my trees. I asked landscaper to trim off the fence line and he completely obliterated the midsection. Will these recover? I believe they are Leyland Cypress.
by Ready_Thought1370
33 Comments
Is your landscaper a deer? I’m sorry this happened
Wow this guy should be locked up
Wow 😬
As I understand it, these won’t grow back because new growth will not sprout from old wood. If the branches have been cut back below where it’s green there will be no regrowth on those branches.
Did they use a weedeater or an actual hatchet?
Neighbor did this to his trees. It’s been a couple of years ans they have not grown back yet
Oh, I’d be big mad,
Those are toast. That stinks
You could maybe plant some bushes to disguise it?
Well they’re off the fence but it looks like shebert . Could look a bit better but what’s done is done not much you can do about it now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/treelaw/s/rSgyPoUpZo
I’m sorry this happened to your trees!
My neighbor has similar trees and they were planted about 6 inches from their fence. 20 years after their planting, they were now taking up about 4-5 feet of my small yard. I trimmed back the part on my side, assuming this is probably something that needed to be done to keep them in line.
I had no idea they didn’t grow back until a few months ago. I apologized, but I still feel bad. And learned not to be so impulsive.
What were you trying to accomplish here?
Tell him to pay for full cost to have those removed and replaced, or you’ll bring him to small claims court. Where you’ll win.
Someone owes you $10,000 in grown trees
At least you didn’t pay him!!
Why are you not your own landscaper
Rip
He owes you new trees
Conifers do not grow back once they’re butchered like this.
I’d sue for every plant, replanted they won’t be the same butcher job. I learned that the hard way once on my own property I killed that poor evergreen it grew up never out after that. Had to replace to to get a bush again.
When I hire people to trim my trees I make sure they are directed by an actual arborist and I sit in a lawn chair and watch what they’re doing.
There is hope. It takes a long time. They need as much sun as possible. I help my cedars fill out by clearing out as much dead inside as possible. Filtered light will help too. Fertilizer helps as well. These were once naked up to about the fence line.
https://preview.redd.it/wc0aj0ao4fzg1.jpeg?width=2659&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd6eb7124917f1083f1f802775905450a918b840
Probably get blight and all end up dead ( depending on location)
You mean former landscaper right?
Despite some advice thus far, not enough info posted about your agreement with / direction to the “landscaper” to even posit restitution. If the landscaper works out of his/her truck for cash you can’t get blood from a stone anyway.
Those Leyland cypress are so close together that the bottoms are going to look like that 10 years from now. Might be best to clean up that hack job and plant a hedge underneath to compliment them.
Edit: Sorry, took me a minute to realize how high up he butchered those trees from the top of the fence, I’m so sorry.
Those are fucked.
That hurt to look at
👀. Wtf? That’s outrageous, who did that.. I’m a landscape maintenance guy.
This is why I ALWAYS ask to see someone’s ‘portfolio’ before I hire anyone. Any decent landscaper will have pictures of their work and you can judge if they’re competent or not.
I also believe those trees will 100% NOT grow branches again.
This is why I do things myself. God help me when I get too old to do so.
Zoomed in it looks like he cut it pretty close to the fence.
One of you should have been smart enough to realize that trimming them back off of the fence was going to result in this look and you Being unhappy.
They are planted way too close to the fence and way too close together, he sped up the inevitable by about 6-7 years.