Renovating a Hedge - Laurel

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1. i have recently purchased a new house and the hedge is is terrible shape. Some of the plants in the hedge have grown alot better than others and now is terribly uneven. How should i repair it?
2. You're cute. Too bad you are married.
3. Hi Nick, great video. I have an enormous laurel hedge at the front of my new house. We live in france (north) and the summer has been really good recently and the thing has gone crazy. I want to cut the height down to about 1/3rd. Can this be done at this time of year or should I wait until later in the year when the hedge is dormant? I obviously want to avoid killing the hedge, how much can I cut bacK? Cheers.
4. hi, we have laurel, its about 50 ft long and about 6 foot tall. it looks good from a distance but you can see through it in places, its very bushy on top but empty inside, its about 3 foot wide, i have tidied it up today. if i want to thicken it up inside would you cut it back on one side and the top then do the same on the other side next year. would you water the plant and add some fertiliser to it , ours is about ten years old. i have cut all of the very new growth off the top to let some light inside the hedge
5. The smaller I think I want. Following you on you tube.
6. I am curious about the differences of English Laurel ant the Otto Lukens, size and zone preference and sun tolerance. May be called, also, cherry laurel?
7. Great tips.
8. that is really nice of you nick. I will get you some pics in the morning. thanks again.
9. hi nick, appreciate the video. we have recently moved into a house with a large mature laurel at the front. this has been absolutely butchered on the public side, exposing lots of thick 4" branches. it's very unsightly but I'd like to save it if possible, any ideas. thanks kindly Paul.
10. this is an old vid, hope you till monitor it. I stumbles upon this because I have a laurel to prune and its over 15 feet high, thick trunks and has been hacked back, it looks a mess, a lot of the trunk is exposed. I was thinking of chopping it right down, but maybe that's extreme, Most hedges are fine but I am not sure about laurel. I have 3 days before the job!
11. Hi Matthew. As long as you cut it back soon. Once the hard frosts hits you don't want to continue with any hard renovations. Don't know where u are geographically, but temps here are still only getting down to abou 8c overnight. That's ok. Any hard ground frosts and you want to stop as sometimes the bare cuts can cause some damage with the cold or introduce disease at the 'damaged' areas where u have made cuts. As long as it's not too cold where u are, u should be alright. Thanks for the post. Hope to hear from you again soon
12. hello there nick just a quickie. i look after 5 acres of gardens and being quite new to the gardening world cauld you tell me if its ok to cut a laurel hard at this time of year. oh yea brillant work on that laurel.
13. Yes, it has happened a couple of times. Fortunately I have a fair amount of immunity when cutting other peoples hedges. I just refer them to the owners and things get cleared up. I've never had it develop into a nasty situation fortunately. I was asked to leave someone property when they found me smoking in their garden! Go figure :)
14. Great question I need to ask,  when you're trimming hedges have you ever had a dispute with a neighbour ..i.e someone who comes out and has a go at you for cutting a hedge down..happened to me, I had a guy come round to trim my laurel bush, the neighbour came out and had a go at the hedge trimmer.......I told the neighbour to go away in a pokite way and let the hedge trimmer do his job..
15. Hi Jim. Thanks for posting. Avoid pruning on hedges once autumn frosts have started. So for now, you have a month and a bit to get your pruning done. Cut branches can be more susceptible to disease.
16. Thanks for making and sharing vids, very useful :). Please tell me if I can prune back during winter months or not as advice seems to be spring and summer? 
17. Cheers Chris. Always good to know that these are useful. There are another 20 videos still to upload right now but bit busy through the summer months. I'll get some more up soon. Thanks
18. very useful thanks.
    Keep uploading videos, they're great.
19. Smart fit that I have comes a with a strummer attachment as standard - £425. The trimmer head is an additional £200. It would be worth your while buying a good quality 12" serrated hand saw for some of the bigger internal branches. If you need anything else, drop me a line here or on my Facebook page :). Do what you live and love what you do. Send me some pics before and after
20. Morning estelle. Glad it was useful. No, my ones are tanaka which I've been using for 12 yrs. I find Stihl a bit too expensive for what I get. Also, the new models run a weird 2 stroke/4 stroke system that means a lot more maintenance as the valves have to be repaired/adjusted VERY often. The long pole smartfit