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When cutting down a conifer, should you get rid of all the needles that fall onto the ground or do they compost back into the ground.  For some reason my conifer has died, (been there some time) but not sure why, so am in the process of cutting

i need help quickly. i have a conifer hedge that is now 30 foot tall, (about 20 years old) and needing to be cut by at least a third. will this kill the trees????? no jac it wont kill them take what you want off the top and just trim all the sides

I have five corkscrew shaped conifers, all in various places in my garden. All of them to a degree have dry dead patches from the middle to the top. Can any body suggest what is wrong? They may have conifer aphid. Since there is no issue

Hi, Im after a bit of advice from gardeners that know their stuff (as I dont really). My neighbour has a wild overgrown front and back garden. He has 2 large conifers in his back garden that are approx 40 foot high and a what I think is a spruce

Can anyone advise me of a suitable small &slow growing conifer for pots, which will regrow from brown wood after pruning / frost damage .? I doubt that such a conifer exists-if it has gone brown it is like to regenerate green growth

My beautiful Conifers/Cypress are browning/dying/drying out from the bottom up and from inside out. Any ideas what is causing this and what i can do to fix this? What are they? Conifers aren't all the same. Any part of a conifer that doesn't get

My boyfriend planted a number of conifers in our garden about 12 years ago. The garden is very small - about 9 x 7'. Now the trees have become overwhelming, and have started to shadow our neighbours' gardens. I am a complete gardening novice and am

There are days nominated to celebrate apples, festivals for tomatoes and chillies, and whole weeks to inform us about bird nesting boxes, trees, allotments and composting ... and this week it's the turn of the conifer.The Association of British

mtr high, evergreen and fairly fast growing. I considered Leylandii, but from what I have read they do not stop growing at 20ish feet, and I would not be able to trim a 20ft hedge/tree. I suppose I am looking for conifers that stop growing when

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