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Beeching Hedging

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  • 01-11-2018 3:24pm
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    underpants
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭


    I'm looking to plant 300m of beech hedging as a border to a property and I've got quotes for doing it with 3-4ft or with 4-5ft.

    The 4-5ft is coming in about 65% more than 3-4ft. My questions are...

    - Is that price justifiable?
    - Is the risk that 3-4ft will fail that much high than 4-5ft?
    - Or is the only issue that it will take longer for 3-4ft to grow and fill out?

    Any advice or your experience would be good to hear

    Thanks


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    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭blackbox


    underpants wrote: »
    I'm looking to plant 300m of beech hedging as a border to a property and I've got quotes for doing it with 3-4ft or with 4-5ft.

    The 4-5ft is coming in about 65% more than 3-4ft. My questions are...

    - Is that price justifiable?
    - Is the risk that 3-4ft will fail that much high than 4-5ft?
    - Or is the only issue that it will take longer for 3-4ft to grow and fill out?

    Any advice or your experience would be good to hear

    Thanks

    3-4 ft is LESS likely to fail and will probably fill out better. Unless you have something that you need to hide immediately it's a no brainier.


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    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,698 ✭✭✭standardg60


    blackbox wrote: »
    3-4 ft is LESS likely to fail and will probably fill out better. Unless you have something that you need to hide immediately it's a no brainier.

    completely agree


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    pwurple
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    Are they the same spacing and density? How many plants for your space? Unusual for there to be that price difference.

    Bare root or pots?


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    Hoof Hearted2
    Registered Users Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Hoof Hearted2


    underpants wrote: »
    I'm looking to plant 300m of beech hedging as a border to a property and I've got quotes for doing it with 3-4ft or with 4-5ft.

    The 4-5ft is coming in about 65% more than 3-4ft. My questions are...

    - Is that price justifiable?Only you can be the judge of that, but if you can afford it then IMO yes it is, because the larger plants are roughly 2 years older and essentially you have an instant hedge.

    - Is the risk that 3-4ft will fail that much high than 4-5ft? No there is no discernible difference in the risk, bare root hedging has roughly a 10% failure rate, but IME in the vast majority of cases the success rate is 100%, providing the work is carried out to best industry practice.

    - Or is the only issue that it will take longer for 3-4ft to grow and fill out? Yes essentially that is the only difference, the difference in height equates to about 2 years.

    Any advice or your experience would be good to hear

    Thanks
    Hope that helps.


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