Inherited this perky leylandii – basically the only thing the previous owner left bar an overgrown lawn and a heap of buried asbestos ðŸ«
It has doubled in size over the last two and a bit years, so I'm thinking it's crunch time…
I've seen all of the bother people have to go through removing leylandii when they get big – and the folk on here saying it adds almost nothing for the wildlife – so I reckon it's time to go. Beyond bringing a bit of height, I'm not arsed either.
So if I ripped it out, what would be your recommendations for replacing it?
It's a sunny, albeit slightly boggy corner of the garden. Some sort of evergreen treelet?
by listenupuk
21 Comments
Rip it out while you can. They add nothing positive to a garden.
What are your plans for the rest of the garden?
Even if you want to keep it move it while you still can easily and cheaply few more years it will destroy that wall
Chop! Chop chop chop! And dig the rest out.
Get rid of it now and put something nice there like a flowering cherry, or crab apple, or rowan – if you want a tree there at all.
Destroy it. One of the worst plants ever to be planted in any garden.
Design the garden as a whole. Is a tree in that location really the best option? What other planting does it need to relate to? This is a designing the whole garden issue, not an ask Reddit issue.
Chap. They grow very fast & the dropped needles turn the surrounding soil so acidic nothing else will grow. The roots will suck the life out of the surrounding soil too.
RIP it out and let that little heather next to it grow and be free.
If you keep it, say bye to that brick wall you have.
I’m not going to say where you live, but I’ve just created a disposable account to say, report that arse hole to the council. An anonymous complaint was made at the time because they took their shitty asbestos shed down themselves and the council claimed they went out and verified that the owner disposed of it responsiblly. This was 4-5 years ago.Â
You’ll need to plant something to soak up water because there is a lot of run off in heavy rain and a lot of clay in that area.Â
Your neighbour at the back is a very nice person, be good to them please.Â
If you take your eye of it for a few years then you will regret the day you passed on ripping it out. Take it out.
Yep get rid of it.
Set fire to it and plant a cherry tree or something instead
I like these, not sure why all the hate. But I would move it a good 6 or 8 feet in from that wall while it’s still small enough to move.
Grub it out with extreme prejudice.
Kill!
For me this is the garden version of an avocado bathroom suite with piss soaked carpets around the toilet and just the same the 1st thing anyone should do is rip it out
Get rid of it asap. It will not stop growing. It offers nothing to wildlife. They’re are awful. I had to get the two in my garden that were destroying my path taken down and it was such a huge effort. Massive trunks, dead inside but grew outside. They’re absolutely awful.
Dig it out, they draw so much nutrient from the soil and grow obscene amounts, if possible try and take it out and pot it so somebody can make use of it. I hate seeing plants destroyed
Dig it out. They have shallow roots and the taller they get the more susceptible to wind tbey become.
Chop.
Looks like *Cupressus macrocarpa*, or Monterrey cypress, to me. If it is, it’s one of leylandii’s parents; which will explain the superficial similarity.
Not that it makes any difference; it’s a conifer that’ll get too big for the space, just not so quickly. Bin with prejudice.