Hedge Trimming & Hedge Cutting in Edenbridge

Hedge trimming in Edenbridge

Hedges shape how Edenbridge looks. We keep them neat, healthy and off the pavement.

Read the council’s study of Edenbridge’s streets and one word keeps coming up: hedges. Crouch House Road is described as a green corridor, its houses set back behind mature hedging. Ridgeway’s houses sit behind hedges and low walls. Even the post-war terraces on the Stangrove estate have low hedges at the front. Hedge trimming in Edenbridge is a big part of what keeps the town looking the way it does.

We cut low box edging, privet, beech, laurel and tall leylandii boundaries. Every cutting is cleared up and taken away, and we check for nesting birds before we start. For anyone in TN8 searching hedge trimming near me, we’re based just over the border in Horley, and hedge cutting in Edenbridge slots easily into our rounds.

When’s hedge cutting season in the UK, and when do we cut?

Birds nest in hedges roughly March to August, and it’s an offence to damage an active nest. So we plan the main hedge cutting for September to February, and we look through every hedge before the trimmer starts. A light summer tidy can be fine if a hedge is clear, but if we find a nest we stop and come back later. On fertile clay, fast hedges like privet and leylandii often look shaggy again by July, so many people here have a second, lighter trim in late summer once the young birds have gone.

Hedge trimming for old hedges in the conservation area

The Edenbridge Conservation Area follows the High Street and takes in parts of Lingfield Road and Hever Road. Its appraisal says the many mature hedges and walls there are an integral part of the town’s character, and asks owners to keep original boundary hedges. That suits us. A neglected old hedge can usually be brought back rather than grubbed out. We reduce height and width in stages over two winters, one side one year and the other the next, so the hedge recovers and stays green.

Hedge Trimming in Edenbridge: your questions

Anything else, just ring. You’ll speak to the people who do the work.

How often should a hedge be trimmed?

Privet and leylandii usually want two cuts a year to stay tight. Beech and hornbeam are happy with one in late summer. Laurel we cut by hand, so the big leaves aren’t sliced in half and left to brown.

Can you take a tall leylandii hedge down in height?

Yes, within reason. We’ll reduce it in stages, because leylandii won’t regrow from bare brown wood. If it’s grown into a line of trees, that’s work for a qualified arborist, and we’ll tell you so.

What happens to the cuttings?

They all go with us. You won’t be left with a heap to squeeze into garden waste sacks.