Hello! I am new here and glad to find a place to talk about trees, hedges, plants, etc. My first question is about removing a long standing cedar hedge from one side of our property. The hedge is about 14 - 16' tall and very thick. The trunks of the trees are about 6" diameter, at a rough guess. The problems with the hedge are: 1. size - we can't see anything out our main floor windows but this wall of hedge. It feels clautrophobic. 2. security - the hedge completely screens any visibility from the street, we have been broken into before, once a person is inside the hedge, nothing can be seen from the street (climbing up to a second story window and entering that way. 3. cost - the hedge is too big for us to trim by ourselves. My father has been paying $700 x 2 per year to keep the hedge trimmed. 4. the garden inside the hedge - it is very difficult to get anything to grow as the hedge sits like a behemoth on the southeast corner of the lot and shades everything. I would like to remove the hedge growing at least on the south and east side of the lot. This is probably going to be 40 or 50 stems. Does anyone have any experience with this? We don't know what to do. One idea is to cut it all down to 6' high, but I suspect it will look terrible and it is still between 4 and 5' wide. Does anyone need some well sized cedar trees?
Cut it down, hire an excavator and pull it out. Replant the area with a better hedge option or leave the area open.
