Leyland cypress

I read out Emma from Enfield's one where she's done her mate's work.

We've already had a nomination for Leah's mom who didn't overreact when her friends puked inside her lovely Leylandi bushes.

Hi, John.

I recently got a letter from my local Haringey councillor.

And you're going to see them on, you know, your I'll say Christmas tree shaped evergreens.

So you're going to see them on Leyland Cypress.

You're going to see them on Sometimes Cryptomeria, Arborvitaes, Chinese Arborvitaes down here and Green Giant Arborvitaes really are very difficult plant in the South.

Our clay soil is not very plant friendly in general.

She's like, can you go over there and look? I don't know what's going on.

I'm like, why are all these green, healthy trees? needles falling but her tree looks sparse too really sparse and you like with that fusiform canker or rust you'll see like you'll see the limbs curl they'll start giving like this curling effect and then they'll get sparse and they'll kind of just try to recover and put along but it was it was kind of hard to diagnose that one usually I'll send something to the lab to confirm or Hey, I didn't even know this was a thing.

So see, they planted Leyland cypress down here, which is a man-made tree.

It's an Alaskan cedar and a Monterey cypress crossed.

Are there things now that are being planted, maybe something a, a new homeowner should stay away from that, that is just really not appropriate that people use all the time?

Yeah, like Leyland cypress and Bradford pears.

[laughs]

What, what, uh...

regulations that say they weren't fair.

Simon Constable in the south of France with the Leyland Cypress.

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I'm John Batchelor.

I've got some things more than 50% off.

I have Raywood Ash, Chinese Pistachio, no, Raywood Ash, Purple Leaf Plums, Flowering Pears, Leyland Cypress, and Arborvitae.

All on sale for $100 or normally $250.

And I just bought them.