Blimey, I am confused so of course I come here as I know someone will have the knowledge to help!
We currently have ten or so large trees in the back garden screening us from the houses behind. These are in quite a state now as frankly they had not been looked after before we came here and to be honest, we hadn't really bothered with them. After speaking to a Tree bloke, we have been advised to cut them down and put something new in their place. Hence, my post.
I don't want to bother with trees again (I think they are Leylandii) as they are a right pain to have someone in yearly to trim them back, so I would like to put a hedge in instead, something which I can trim myself. So, my wishes are that the plants grow to no more than 5m, grow some 30cm to 60cm per year and are either evergreen or keep their leaves (dead or otherwise) over the winter. I must also be able to get them from the supplier standing already 2 to 2.5m high.
Oh... and they must be wildlife and pet friendly.
Finally, any ideas how to get tree stumps out of the ground... I had thought about hiring a mini digger. Would that work?