The same shock every year...

The same shock every year... it is spring, and it is April and the front hedge looks like this:

Beech (?) hedge, mid April 2015

 

 

 

This hedge really looks like it won't ever grow green and back again. Compare that with the privet hedge at the end of of this "dead hedge", and the neighbour's privet hedge.

Anyway, then in May/June the hedge starts turning green again until it is back to "normal" (see photo to the left). I even cut it a bit afterwards, and it still looks happy, more or less. :-)

I have never ever noticed a hedge looking sooo dead and bad for such a long time into mid to late spring. So if you are ever thinking of buying or planting a beech hedge - maybe this is a good warning, not to bother;  however, if you do leave it space to grow, it's so wide and thick that even in winter time (when all the leaves are brown) it blocks out views from passers-by. And now it definitely looks fine. Ah well, nature, eh?

CHG