Has anyone ever chopped the top off their evergreens down? We live in a terraced house. Next door is rented and in our back garden we have a small brick wall so you can see over into each others garden. The owner of next door planted evergreens to make some privacy. Because it is rented and the current tenants don't use the garden at all these trees have just grown and grown and are now taller than the house and there are about 6 in total. My cousin has said he could cut them down but after looking on the internet this could apparently kill the trees? Has anyone done this before? We would probably be looking to chop them to about 8ft so we could maintain them easily after that.
We have been in touch with the council and they will kindly cut the trees- at a price to us of £560. The landlord isn't bothered because the tenants aren't bothered and the tenants don't speak English and I'm certain would be unwilling to foot the bill anyway. They have however give us permission to chop them down. We want to sort it out before the summer because the trees are literally running the whole way down 1 side of our tiny garden.
