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Botanical Latin Names: Cupressocyparis leylandii, Cuprocyparis leylandii, Cupressus leylandii

Speed of growth: up to 1 metre (3ft) per year

Why choose Leylandii
Fastest-growing hedging plant
Evergreen (keeps its leaves all year round)
Least expensive (cheapest) especially at heights over 4ft (120cm) tall
Hardy & wind tolerant
Available in larger sizes

Description
Leylandii is a conifer that is the fastest –growing, evergreen, hedging plant and will create a hedge quickly. Because it is fast growing, it is generally the cheapest way of forming an evergreen garden hedge and hence the most popular.

If it is pruned every year, Leylandii will create a formal dark-green evergreen screen or box-shaped hedge, similar to a Yew hedge. Leylandii can be kept to any height as long as you trim it once or twice a year. We have kept a Leylandii Hedge 4ft tall for over 25 years. We trim the tops of most of our Leylandii Hedges twice a year and the sides once a year.

Leylandii is also very tolerant of wind and cold temperatures.

Other benefits of Leylandii hedging plants are:

Dense foliage acts as sound barrier
Best at filtering particulates (air pollution) from passing traffic.