Keep your hedge trimmed or else

**H*@aol.com**

I thought I would throw this out for the list to chew on.  The Village  of 
Southampton has passed a law requiring residents to keep their hedges  
trimmed.  I pass this along without comment looking to see what you think  about 
it?

As a little bit of background for those not familiar with the village  
properties in the Hamptons,,, most of the upscale properties inside the villages 
 are surrounded by privet hedges or some other kind of hedging material.   
These hedges can be quite tall getting up to fifteen feet and taller and 
three  to four feet wide.  Some are pruned several times during the growing 
season  keeping them tight and well manicured, others are left to grow and 
sprawl and  still others are pruned sometimes and not others.  You can drive 
down a  village street and see that each property's hedge is done a little 
differently  as one may be cut to keep it at six feet tall and the next ten feet 
 tall.  Another variation is that one hedge may be wide at the bottom and  
tapered towards the top while the next is is cut straight ground to top and  
the next ragged and flopping over.  But what about the property owner who  
does nothing and simply lets his or her hedge sprawl?

The common theme though is that these hedges provide the properties with  
'privacy' keeping them boxed in and somewhat sheltered from prying eyes along 
 the road and nosey neighbors to the side.

So, what's your take?

_http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Southampton-Village-Surrounding-Area
s/397856/Southampton-Village-Passes-Law-To-Keep-Hedges-Well-Groomed_ 
(http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Southampton-Village-Surrounding-Areas/39785
6/Southampton-Village-Passes-Law-To-Keep-Hedges-Well-Groomed) 

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener is a  registered trade mark and is published every 
Thursday in The Southampton Press,  The Press and the Easthampton Press
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