Hedge Maintenance
Its important for any landowner to maintain their hedges and large bushes periodically to improve the aesthetic appearance within the garden or landscape.
New hedges require formative pruning for their first couple of years after planting. Formative pruning is usually carried out in winter or early spring.
After this, maintenance trimming is carried out, usually once a year for informal hedges and twice a year for formal hedges. Some formal hedges may need three cuts a year. Maintenance trimming is generally carried out between spring and summer.
Failure to maintain your hedges may result in severe cutting which incurs higher costs and processing of waste to achieve this result.
The Hedge Maintenance Process
Client Discussion
Conversation with client to establish work requirements
Site walkaround to agree details and specifics of the site (Including site access)
Assistance with (TPO) Tree Preservation Order/ Conservation Area(s) application submission (if appropriate)
Team Discussion and Site assessment
Assess the site for hazards relating to the hedges, terrain, other operations
Assess the overall weather conditions for the scheduled work
Allocate responsibilities to the team members for the planned work
Assess public access safety for any potential concerns
Individual hedge assessment
Determine what can be trimmed from the ground and which work can be completed from either within the hedge or on ladders
Determine what can be trimmed to maintain the agreed hedge aesthetic
Place any required public safety notifications (where identified as a concern)
Commencing Hedge work
Applying professional trimming techniques for safe, accurate, consistent results
Team coordination to remove any hedge debris
Cleanup & Client Approval
Initial client inspections of works carried out
Agreement of work completion
Site cleanup process to restore the original state