Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 May 31, 2016 2:31 pm Hi everyone, hopefully someone is able to give me some advice on our Photinia Hedge. We have recently moved into a house and it has a great photinia (red tip variety I think) hedge that runs along the border of the block. It is well established, very thick and is approximately 3 metres tall. We are in the process of extending our house, and one option is to extend towards this hedge which would block all sunlight to the hedge as it runs along the south side of the house. We have another section of this hedge which doesn't get any sunlight (it is about 40 cm from the house) and it is very twiggy with hardly any leaves on that side of the house, while the other side of the hedge is looking very bushy. My question is, if we extend the house towards the hedge so no sunlight hits it, will the leaves start to drop off and become twiggy? Or because it is well and truly established (it might be 20+ years old) will this not effect the hedge? Thanks in advance! Re: Photinia Hedge Advice 2Jun 02, 2016 10:43 am Hi, If you block the sunlight it will definitely effect the growth. It will get 'leggy' searching for light and end up in very poor condition. Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 19273 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 7118 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 7150 |