One common hedge plant that can cause problems is the Chinese privet, otherwise known as Ligustrum sinense,' says Reese Robbins, garden expert and creator of Just Pure Gardening. Considered an ...

The berries of these shrubs are distributed by birds, and when they arrive in your lawn, they sprout up easily and spread fast. Burning is one eco-friendly option for removing Chinese privet.

Choose a mixture of hedging trees and shrubs; birch, beech ... that you can clip into a neat wall of foliage like leylandii or privet. Source the whips from your local garden centre.

Like clockwork, roots would appear on the bottom of each cutting, sometimes just three weeks after planting. By the end of summer, even the sluggish varieties had roots.