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It seems your trees (yes, Leyland cypresses are trees) were never properly trimmed, more likely planted once and then left alone. Which means they behaved like all trees planted closely together: ...

Leave them as they are - Leylandii often have more than one apically dominant shoot, and attempting to reduce the number of them may encourage even more to form. Generally, Leylandii are used as ...

The recommended time for cutting back mature leylandii hedges in the UK is two or three cuts between April and August, so its a little late now, though you could risk taking some off if you're ...

Leyland Cypress are able to form multiple leaders but we always chose one and suppressed the other or others easily just by cutting the leaders completely off from the main branch or trunk or where it ...

Everything that Stephie said is fine. However, the trimming would most likely work for the right side of the hedge (right side of the last photo), but for the left hand side, it would be a difficult ...

The advice is to leave hessian in place when planting (though I personally never do unless the roots have already penetrated the hessian). You now need to go out and reduce the height of the plants by ...

Cupressus x leylandii, AKA Leyland Cypress and until recent years it was × Cuprocyparis leylandii. New genetic research has found that one it's parents was misnamed, resulting it being given a new ...

Leylandii trees are fast fast growing and always sparse when young. These trees need a good 5' diameter of soil per tree. I always offset the trees which makes for a more predictable screen as well ...

That's a pretty big tree to transplant. especially in May, it would have had an extensive root system which you will have inevitably damaged just as the weather is warming up, making it difficult for ...

Normally the way to fill in gaps where growth will not naturally occur is to bend branches from more densely foliated areas to the empty spots. This may mean constructing some kind of rigid grid to ...