Overgrown hedges make a whole garden look neglected. Cut clean, level and shaped by hand, with every last cutting cleared away.
Trimmed regularly into the green growth and never back to bare brown wood, because conifers like leylandii do not regrow from it.
Between spring and late summer every hedge is checked for active nests before any cutting starts.
Hedges are one of those jobs that creep up on you: a foot of growth a year and suddenly they're blocking light and spilling over the path. We cut them back level and true, reduce the height where they've got too tall, and shape the tops and faces by hand so they look sharp rather than hacked.
Timing matters and we work with it. We avoid cutting during nesting season where there's active wildlife, and we prune the right way for each type, conifers, privet, laurel, box, so they thicken up rather than going bare and brown. Formal shapes and topiary kept crisp, informal hedges kept tidy.
The big difference is the clear-up: every cutting is raked, bagged and taken away, so you're left with a neat hedge and a clean garden, not a pile of green waste to deal with. Across Ilkeston, West Hallam and Shipley, fixed price agreed before we start.
Leylandii boundary hedges on the estates around Kirk Hallam and Cotmanhay are the ones that most often get away from people, because they put on height fast and will not grow back from bare wood if they are cut too hard. Most other Ilkeston hedges, privet, beech and hawthorn, forgive a harder cut far better.
Both: regular weekly, fortnightly or monthly rounds to keep things tidy, or a one-off job whenever you need it. Most people start with a one-off, then go regular once they see the difference.
Yes: every clipping, cutting and bit of green waste is cleared and taken away as part of the price. No bags left, no skip to hire.
Almost certainly: we cover Ilkeston and everywhere around it including Cotmanhay, Kirk Hallam, West Hallam, Shipley and Trowell. Send your postcode and we'll confirm.
Only so far. Leylandii will not regrow from bare brown wood, so cutting past the green leaves bare patches that never recover. It can usually be reduced in height and kept in shape, but a hedge that has grown too wide may need replacing rather than rescuing.
Most hedges are best trimmed in late summer and again in autumn or winter. Cutting in spring and early summer is limited by nesting birds, which the law protects, so hedges are checked before any work at that time of year.
Talking to the neighbour is the usual first step. If that fails, Erewash Borough Council can look at complaints about high hedges. Trimming your own side back to the boundary is normally fine.
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