It'll grow back but no privacy now !

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More of a little vent /what should I do now ?

Had a boundary in my garden that was all 7.5m tall established trees. (It's about a 15m long run. It was blocking out quite a lot of the southern aspect sunlight to the garden, so called in tree guys to trim it all off to about 3.6m. It was suggested that we entwined the offcuts into the lower parts to keep the garden secure.

So left them to it, they have worked for us before, and I had no reason to think they wouldn't do what we'd discussed.

They have taken everything down to a height of about 1m!

Now anyone can see into my garden and even climb in if they wanted . To the rear of this boundary is an access point to neighbours run of garages. My privacy and security has gone completely.

I was shocked, but was too bloody polite to show it or say. The tree guys live very locally so drive past and wave almost every day, and it's done now so not much point in causing ill feeling by ranting at them. But WTF do I do to reinstate some privacy and security?

I was really looking forward to sunbathing in my garden this summer. I'm so disappointed.

They'll grow back from the base of the trunk. it's quite difficult to kill a tree. The trees have been coppiced.

What did you do in the end @121hugsneeded ?

It must have been a terrible shock - 1m is rather low

Ash and Hazel can both be coppiced so will grow lots of shoots and Sycamore is a weed and grows just about anywhere and is hard to kill off.

Usually if you fell a tree, you need stump killer to stop it growing back.

They have mature roots, so will be aiming to grow back to their previous size (although not necessarily the same shape).

Give it a year and see how they get on. Like Ochre said, they may need trimming every year to thicken up.

Bum - Zombie

As others have said, all those trees can be coppiced so they should grow back, it may take a bit longer if they are very old but I'm guessing from the height that they have either been cut back before or are young trees.

It'll be a pain this year, but next year should be fine.

Aah bollocks 🧟‍♂️