Hedge trimming
Hedge trimming Comox Valley
Cedar hedges cut square, topped and tidied.
What hedge trimming involves
Hedge trimming in the Comox Valley is mostly cedar, and mostly the same two problems: it has gone taller than anyone can reach safely, and it has gone wider than the path. Both are fixable in a visit.
What is included
- Sides and top cut to a set line, not eyeballed
- Height reduction within what the species will tolerate
- Clearing back from paths, drives, fences and windows
- All arisings chipped and removed
Who it suits
Cedar, laurel, boxwood and beech hedges on residential and strata property.
Worth knowing afterwards
Cedar will not reshoot from bare brown wood. There is a limit to how far a neglected hedge can be brought back in one go, and we will show you where that line is on your hedge before cutting past it.
Hedge trimming
Questions about hedge trimming
Once a year keeps a hedge tight. Twice a year keeps it sharp. Leave it three or four years and you are into reduction work rather than trimming, because the green only lives on the outer few inches.
Only as far as there is still green growth. Cut cedar back into bare brown wood and it stays brown — that section will not come back.
Yes, chipped and removed as part of the price unless you ask to keep them.
Demonstration content
Get a price for hedge trimming.
Send a photo and a postcode. We will tell you whether it is a job, a permit question, or something that can safely be left alone.
Quotes are free, and we come and look at the tree before we price it.