Marie Staunton
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then you will find that they'll get out of control.
And they tend to get quite wide as well.
So, you know, if space is an issue, if you have a small garden, but you want kind of a hedge going around it and space is an issue, then you don't want something as robust as a Leyland cypress.
You could consider what are called pleached trees.
So, pleached trees, for anybody who doesn't know what they are, it's on one stem.
And then at the top, they're kind of framed on a bamboo kind of cane system.
And they almost look like a big square lollipop.
That's the best kind of description I can give.
They don't go wild because they're already on a kind of a frame.
So you keep that frame in check.
So most walls would be kind of eight foot, ten foot.
And these trees would have a leg or a stem roughly kind of eight foot.
And then you would have the canopy then on top.
But it's like a sail.
So they would have to be staked.
And it's really important that they are staked because they act like a sail.
So they will take the wind, but you don't want them kind of rocking out of where you've planted them.
So they need to be staked.
And it's a double, it's kind of a double stake with a,