Picture of the effects of using hedge clippers vs pruning

[Dirtmechanic]

 

[flowerbug]

i need to do some of that on a few bushes/trees here. they're trying to take over the pathway and i keep telling myself i need to trim them, and then i forget until i walk that way again.

 

[Niele da Kine]

Interesting that the main trunk isn't centered in the hedge.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Interesting that the main trunk isn't centered in the hedge.

Some of that may be how you trim it but I bet I could guess which side the sunshine comes from.

 

[Niele da Kine]

Bushes are solar powered, aren't they? One side does seem to have a narrower line of green on the edges than the other, too. Rather a fascinating picture and I'll be doing more thinking when trimming the hedge next time.

At the moment, the 'hedge' is a mock orange twenty foot tall thing that needs to be whacked in half. Probably a bit past the trimming stage and somewhere into the lumberjack stage. Is mock orange lumber good for anything? I may save a few pieces and make them into a small box or something and see what mock orange wood looks like. There's about fifty feet of new hedge to plant, not sure what species to select just yet. Maybe I should start a thread and ask?