Rob. That’s proper graft taking out roots and all. I always try to persuade a customer to mix a hedge up ie different types and colours always looks great when it’s established. I alway use a post digger spade when I’m making holes for the newbies makes life a bit easier in my opinion. Great post.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thanks Adam, appreciate your comment and expertise.
@AndyJ54318 ай бұрын
Great job Rob. Keep on top of the trimming when it gets established so it doesn’t get away from you. I’ve trimmed a Laurel patch today 6’ tall very wide. I had to use my one metre extension on my Stihl Combi hedge cutter to cut the top. I took off last years growth which was approx 4’ in length.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you for the advice.👍🏻
@adamstockton678 ай бұрын
Lovely job Rob. Great attention to detail.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Appreciate your kind words.
@liamjarvis928 ай бұрын
Great tidy job Rob! Finally got a glimpse of Ian to 👍🏻
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Ian is a bit camera 📷 shy. 😂
@jonnysgardenmaintenance8 ай бұрын
Hi Rob I planted 35 cherry laurels last week also they have a front side nice and glossy backside side not so, I only realised when I had them in the ground one or 2 didn't look quite right, good job as always Rob hope all is swell 👍
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thanks Jonny. All the best to you. Have a great season.👍🏻
@FromLawtoGardening8 ай бұрын
Lovely work you have done. A pleasure to watch Rob. Pure professional.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you , appreciate your kind words.
@spacemanwho5 ай бұрын
thank you for sharing this, gave me the confidence to do my own hedges.
@pablo93648 ай бұрын
Robert, that's a very nice job . Will look great 👍
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you , appreciated.
@stanionmowing8 ай бұрын
Nice job. I find laurel really satisfying after planting when it has a growth spurt and spreads out 👍
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Me too, cheers.
@philgardener70188 ай бұрын
that looks good. I enjoy planting. especially on jobs where you can go back months/ years later and see how it has grown
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
I agree with you. Thank you .
@darrenupton55008 ай бұрын
You need a farmers high lift jack pal for getting roots out. Wrap a chain around the roots and get her lifted out.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
That would be easier. Don’t have on so it’s the old fashioned way.
@david219688 ай бұрын
Couldn’t recommend this more. It saves so much effort on a stump
@markopolo-18 ай бұрын
Great job as always Rob but tbh, as a gardener myself I'd much prefer to cut and maintain a Conifer over a Laurel any day but each to their own!
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Leylandii is easier to trim, doesn’t look as nice though. Thank you for watching and your comment.
@matthewblazer79327 ай бұрын
Get yourself a farm jack and a length of good chain. Wrap the chain around the stump. Fix with big screws. Connect to the jack. Sit the jack in a double thickness section of scaffolding board and just jack the stumps out as you dig and cut. It'll save you hour's of work.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices7 ай бұрын
Thank you for the advice.
@mcpheesgardeningservices8 ай бұрын
nice work Rob ,great to see you in action and I am very impressed !
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you Geoff.👍🏻
@jakelamotta23876 ай бұрын
@@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices HI Rob, I'm staying my own business and struggling for a quote similar to this job. Any help on how to quote this job would be brilliant mate. I Love your videos. Thanks for the content once again👍🏻
@williambrown37628 ай бұрын
Great job , i like the laural hedges , i tend to like convincing customers to go for 2 foot spacing if possible especially on smaller runs , a makes a nice quick full screen, anywhere between 2ft and 3ft spacing is 100per cent, obviously the larger gap will take longer to grow in so to speak, i like using root balled plants as i generally can get a larger plant for less money as a root ball vrs pot grown, but those plants look good and they will grow fast , a tidy job well done, as you say keep them watered!
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you William, appreciate your comment.
@bradroller60728 ай бұрын
Very nice job it looks great mate 👍🏻👏🏻
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@funkyduckproductions.88448 ай бұрын
Top job 👍
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@JamesGriffiths-k7b8 ай бұрын
Nice neat job, well executed 👌
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@jasonhewlett12838 ай бұрын
Good job, Rob, but I would not plant a cherry laurel hedge as I hate the bugger s. Lol .I would stear the customer towards a Portuguese laurel instead. 😉. The green gold will shortly be growing !
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Cheers Jason. Each to their own. 👍🏻
@waynehammerton56988 ай бұрын
Superb work fellas
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you kindly, appreciated Wayne.
@waynehammerton56988 ай бұрын
My pleasure as always Rob
@mycolliesandme2688 ай бұрын
Nice 👍
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@robertreader65393 ай бұрын
Looks fab. May i ask for a rough price for taking the old hedge down and clearing the waste
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices3 ай бұрын
Two men two day labour plus waste away.👍🏻
@markcorcoran98662 ай бұрын
I am thinking of planting a laurel or beach hedge along a straight line 45 metre fence. The ground is compacted stoney clay. Would it be ok to dig out the holes for each plant like you did or would I have to get a mini digger to cultivate a trench ?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices2 ай бұрын
Dig out the holes 3x than the pots. Good luck.
@markvots4056 ай бұрын
Can you post an update on this? Would love to see how fast the Laurel Hedge grows!
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices6 ай бұрын
It’s only been in for a month or so. I will in twelve months. Many thanks.
@malthusXIII-fo3ep8 ай бұрын
Further to your ''vital to increase our prices'' commentary,...I suddenly remembered a few years ago how some gardening men in their newspaper adverts would add the comment...''Special rates or discounts for Pensioners''.....I wonder if they do that anymore Rob?! You'd be surprised how many of them are actually quite well off, probably receiving a pretty hefty private pension plus £10,500 annual state pension. Plus hundreds in the Winter Fuel Allowance...others receiving pension top-ups, both council rent and council tax also reduced to zero. Many such people are vastly better off than we are...whereas we are out in all weathers, enduring punishing physical work, day after day. How many of us are physically shattered when we wake up in the morning and then off we toddle and have to do it all over again,..it takes some degree of motivation...some real heft! Feel free Rob to knock out another video off my comments! All the best Rob.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thank you , appreciate your support and imput.
@dianachavez62326 ай бұрын
I really want to grow laurel for privacy. I think they are beautiful shrubs. Thank you for your video on this plant.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices6 ай бұрын
You are very welcome, thank you for watching.
@hithere57683 ай бұрын
My laurels have barely grown this year in the UK, is this normal for the weather?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices3 ай бұрын
Water and feed they will grow.
@dtn876Ай бұрын
Planted some of these a few months ago but they don't seem to be doing very well. Leaves going yellow and wrinkly. Some holes in the leaves also. Is there anything I can do?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservicesАй бұрын
Water and feed them. That will help.
@dtn876Ай бұрын
@@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices No need for any fungicide? Could you please suggest a good feed for them?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservicesАй бұрын
I use chicken pellets. Full of nitrogen. I have sprayed laurel with an anti bug spray from b and a works a treat. Lots of water.
@dtn876Ай бұрын
@@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices Ok thanks I will get some chicken manure pellets. It's ok to put down this time of year? What bug spray was it if you don't mind bud
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservicesАй бұрын
Yes put them down and water in. An off the shelf bug spray.
@hotsingledad3608 ай бұрын
Awesome video Rob! Quick question though, would you not need to give the hole a good watering before putting the plant in like you would most flower bed plants?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
You can do that, or dip the root ball in a tub of water. I give the whole area a good watering.
@AndyJ54318 ай бұрын
I always water the hole when planting shrubs, good point 👍
@ched999uk8 ай бұрын
Looks a great job, how fast do they grow - ie how long before its a solid hedge as opposed to separate bushes?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Two years they will be a six feet hedge. 👍🏻
@ivonne_ybn3 ай бұрын
hello!!! thanks, when is the best time of the year to plant this brush?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices3 ай бұрын
Any time, avoid frost and water well in the summer.
@hillbillyjohn2308 ай бұрын
Very professional job 👏 did you get it all done in one day
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
No over two days. Thank you for watching.
@danlaflamme93728 ай бұрын
Do u get ur plants from good nursery or big box store...??ty
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
A local nursery . 👍🏻
@malthusXIII-fo3ep8 ай бұрын
Great job Rob....but laurel is a horror to cut from my experience,...maybe privet would have been a better choice?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
It’s a beautiful hedge to look at . Each to their own. Thanks for watching.
@dciburnsidesniffsniff61198 ай бұрын
The bad yale reviews were from HD gardening services pal if you didn’t see my comment in other video 👍
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Thanks for that, appreciate your support.
@dciburnsidesniffsniff61198 ай бұрын
No problem I hate people who try ruin others 👍
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
Correct, does he have a you tube channel?
@dciburnsidesniffsniff61198 ай бұрын
HD Garden care channel problem is you never know who’s trolling who on here could be him behind the channel will get my fella to find out pal
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
No worries, it’s all good. 👍🏻
@iancadwallender97798 ай бұрын
Do you have people work for you all the time mate?
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
No, Ian and I come together on big jobs. Normally I work alone. 👍🏻
@iancadwallender97798 ай бұрын
👍
@markjefferson74928 ай бұрын
i wouldn't put laurels in, they are far too fast growing and take a lot of time to look nice. They don't make a nice tight hedge.
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
I really like them. 👍🏻
@geoff-638 ай бұрын
Hi Rob, love the channel but I have to say absolutely nothing beautiful about a laurel hedge, sorry not for me a hedge that has to be kept tidy with the secateurs and a absolute nightmare to remove from the ground.. keep up the content buddy, I'm just about ready to start back after a nice break everything sharpened and serviced..
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
I like them Geoff, you can get a beautiful hedge. 👍🏻
@backyarddosser8 ай бұрын
Cut down trees and plant laurels???🫤
@maxwellsgrasscuttingservices8 ай бұрын
The conifer hedge was awful.
@backyarddosser8 ай бұрын
Fair enough, I guess if it’s what the customer requests. Any recommendations for a different type of hedge that could be beneficial to wild life? Keep up the good work 👍