How to Prune a large Privet Hedge Reduction with Hand Tools
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- In this video I will be showing you how to do a reduction prune on an overgrown privet hedge (Ligustrum Vulgare) just using hand tools. This is a large hedge is growing in full sun with a drainage ditch in front so has put on a huge amount of growth over the 4 years it has been neglected for. In the video I explain the methods I use to cut it back to the bare wood, encourage new leafy shoots and how to get it back to its original shape. The best time to do hard prunes like this are the winter months when the hedge is dormant as it reduces shock to the plants and the wounds can heal without bleeding sap. Make sure you use clean sharp tools and cut back to a leaf node to reduce disease and die back.
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As always, very pleasant to watch! Very soothing video, thank you!
Hey 5 Minute Psychology thanks for your kind words and support, much appreciated! 😁👍
Perfect video for me as exactly the job I have been meaning to do the last couple of years
Hey Tracy thanks so much for your comment much appreciated, glad this is going to help you get your Privet under control 😁👍
Thanks for the video, I was afraid to cut my Japanese Privet back this far but will do it in the next few weeks.
Hello your most welcome glad this video helped you, happy pruning 😁👍
Oh, good to see I've done it right 🙂 I've just done similar to the outside of my very long, and very wide privet hedge. Taken it back at least 2 foot, and need to bring the height down as well. Can't do the top till I've made space on the patio by shredding the massive mountain of cuttings. I did the inside of it last year. Hoping to finally get it to a manageable size 🤞
Hey Kathy thanks for your comment, good to hear. Yes they can put on a huge amount of growth and there always seems to be a lot of waste sometimes two or three prunes a year is necessary to keep it in shape once it's down to a manageable size. 😁👍
this work is really good and professional skills
Hey Fredy thanks very much for your comment it's appreciated 👍
Thank you for the Vods! Love your channel
Hey Cody Craig thanks so much for your comment means a lot 👍
Awsome video and great work Thanks for sharing
Hey Crazyblah867 thanks very much glad you liked it 😁👍
Another great video! Thank you sir!!
Hey Imre thanks for the comment glad you enjoyed it 😁👍
really helpful, thank you
Thanks Louise glad it helped 😁👍
I missed you!
Thanks for the support more content will be coming out soon 😁👍
Excellent video! Quite dramatic!
Thanks so much glad you enjoyed it 😁👍
Please can you show the hedge once it had greened up and had it's first trim.
Hello Carol thanks for the message I will certainly do an update video on this in the future 👍
How would you deal with an old Privet Hedge (about x40 yrs old.) On a Garden Boundary to a Verge and a main Road that runs parallel to it.
In the Garden its about 7ft Tall. On the outside Verge about 5ft Tall.
Question :
Its become very see through and sparse at the base, twiggy and lots of tall growth stems on top. Its did get cut regularly until the Pandemic. Not much since. An odd top Trim. Its Condition has got worse (!!)
Also the Verge (Boundary) has started to sink and collapse in towards the (lower Garden on my side !)
Council will not take any responsibility on the Verge.
Do I prune the Hedge to get it Strong again. Or rip it out, and have a very Expensive (semi) retaining Garden Fence.
Reluctant to take the Privet out as its an amazing Nectar Source for my Bees ! Think Privet is only second to my Front Cotoneaster Hedge re Flowering capability ! This Hedge is also getting thin at the Base, bushy at Shoulder height and long whips up top.
Do I also Prune this hard back ?
Can those long Whips of both, be Rotted as Cuttings.
Would love more Privet and Cotoneaster Plants for the Bees. And could these whips be planted in those gappy areas?
Hope you can advise.😎
PS.
That "Boggy Soil" footage in this Video : is how my Garden has become. An old Lawn (worn away) heavy Foot fall. Wet soggy Weather (!) And Clay Soil hasn't helped things !
Need to go backwards and forwards to a small side Garden. Would that Plastic Hex Structure (in Sloping Lawn Step Video) be the answer ?
Have a line of Concrete Slabs, but still 'steppings stones' in a mass of Mud ! I despair. Need an effective Cheap Plan of action. Have you a SoS for boggy Wet Soil Garden Video 'How to Solve'. GQT said NOT sand but organic matter. My Garden looks like the Somme !
Better at Bees and Container Gardening. . .
Putting these awful jobs off due to (what's the best option !?!) Then leave it, for 'later' another Season passes into baked hard in Summer, to become super soggy again & again. Never have a Solution.
Can you advise / Or have a Video ? 🙄
1. Yes you can cut it back hard. You can also lay it - much more work & some small cost for stakes, but you keep the bulk of the hedge.
2. Yes you can root privet cuttings easily. They will often take if you just stick them in the ground.
3. If you can get free / cheap wood chips, they will carpet the mud nicely and over time improve the drainage + prevent the soil baking hard in summer. However, they can also harbour slugs so may not be ideal around veggies. The wood chips can be fresh (which are usually free), but seasoned bark chips are more attractive and not too expensive if you have them delivered in tonne bags, it's up to you
Thos is invasive in new Zealand
Hey Greylynnjr thanks for the info, they do grow pretty fast and out complete other plants, I have seen it in UK woodlands where it takes over. Is there any regulations in New Zealand to remove them?
@gardenerstale hi. Yes there is. But nobody does anything really unless they are posh or informed. It grows wild around my area here in the inner city. Mainly in the undeveloped bush parts next to the motorway. Once I knew what privet was I cant unsee them. And they are a hearty species. Takes alot of work to kill them off
I totally understand you, I see correlations with other plants and social understandings on certain plants here in the UK. Once you know the plant you do see it everywhere. Thanks for commenting and sharing your info 👍
How come you use hand tools over say a hedge trimmer? Is it just preference or a specific reason your using secateurs and what not?
Hey Wardy, so in this video I wanted to show how you can still tackle a large hedge/shrub without the need for power tools or expensive equipment. Secateurs and loppers leave a cleaner and more accurate cut but you absolutely can use a hedge cutter to prune Privet for a faster job. 😁👍
can`t cut thick stuff with a hedge trimmer - that`s the main reason