I would like to plant a hedge around my property and have decided on using cedar. It would take alot of cedars to do what I would like. I was taking to someone that said they had used middle aged eastern white cedars by digging the trench, cutting down a cadar with good foilage and laid it down in the trench leaving one side of the cedars branches out of the ground and cutting the other side branches off. I guess then he burried it with peat, kept it well watered,trimmed branches to same hight and now has a hedge. It sounds to me like bull, but would like to think it might work. Is there any way a cedar could re-root through the cut off branches that are now burried in peat? This would be a much more economical way for me to get a hedge if it would work. Also it would be kind of neat. Thanks for any input.
Are you serious? Much more economical? Cedar limbs can root in highly organic materials but this idea to create a hedge seems a bit excessive to save a little money.
It does to me too! It might (possibly) work with a tree half-cut and bent over, so that it still has some contact with the original root system, but it definitely won't work if you cut a tree completely so that it has to behave as an unrooted cutting.
