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How to cut an overgrown hedge – expert tips for tackling unruly and out-of-control boundaries

A hedge often makes a fantastic way of creating a boundary and giving privacy to a backyard. Pruning hedges is important to ...
The Gazette

The Iowa Gardener: The right way to prune a hedge

Hedges are wonderful landscape assets, providing privacy as well as a green backdrop. Some hedges are small — just a few feet high and a few feet long, while others can soar up to 10 or more feet and ...
Richmond

Gardening Q&A: Tough privet can handle severe pruning -- if timed right

QUESTION: We have four overgrown privet bushes that we would like to murder! When can we cut them back to about 2 feet tall? ANSWER: All the way back to 2 feet might be a little too aggressive. I ...
The Red & Black

Student SEEDS prune privet, thicket

University students pruned and plucked the thicket under Sanford Bridge last weekend, cutting back an exotic weed that's worse than kudzu.About 20 volunteers gleaned piles of privet, which grows up ...