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Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees
Acmena smithii
love to be trimmed
Ohh!!.. Careful with those clippers Marie! |
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Chris and Marie spent a couple of days in 1999
looking at gardens in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. They saw magnificent tall narrow
screens and hedges of Lilly Pilly. The Lilly Pillys were closely clipped, very dense and
covered in fine, bright red new growth, they looked very classy and provided absolute
privacy.
 When Chris got back to Australia he started looking
for varieties of Lilly Pilly that would be suitable for this type of hedging. The criteria
was that it must be fast growing, clip well, have dense, dark green foliage and nice
bronze/red new growth. It must also be resistant to Psyllid attack which causes little
blisters on the newly formed leaves.
When Chris was visiting one of our best growers in QLD, a man
named Griff, he had a field of just the right strain of Lilly Pilly.
Chris asked Griff about his Lilly Pillys and in Griffs southern drawl he said
“ I call these my ‘neighbours be-gone trees’, you plant them in a row along
the back fence, they grow really quick, very bushy, and in a flash, the neighbours be gone and you can run around in the nude and do whatever you want in your backyard.
In fact they are so thick and bushy, you can’t even hear your neighbour’s dog
barking through them!” “Really?” asked Chris and Griff replied “No,
but it’s a great story.”
Chris wrote this story on his website and it became one of the most popular stories on the
web.
The problem was that Griff couldn’t supply enough
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii. Chris and Marie’s Plant Farms have
collected seed and grown over 100,000 Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii.
We have started
advertising
 The Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii on the radio using
Griff’s funny story as our creative and on our first day of advertising the phones have run
hot. |
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Neighbours-Be-
Gone�Trees
Acmena smithii
can grow two or more metres per
year once established |
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees are a select form of Acmena smithii and are exclusive to
Chris and Marie’s Plant Farms. Neighbours-Be-Gone�Tree Acmena smithii
(Lilly Pilly) is trademark that belongs to the Hello Hello group of companies.
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii have deep green, dense, fine foliage and
copper red new growth and can grow two or more metres per year once established, and love
to be clipped and shaped.
They grow in full sun through to light shade and withstand mild frost, wind, heat and
drought. They thrive in almost any soil including heavy wet and occasionally waterlogged
soils.
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To produce a perfect fast growing hedge or screen
Plant your trees at a 1 metre spacing,
keep free of grass and weeds around base and fertilise regularly and irrigate when dry |
 Psyllids
Psyllids are the only pest that attack
Lilly Pilly. Fortunately the Neighbours- Be-Gone�Tree Acmena smithii is a
resistant strain. Psyllids cause little blisters on the newly formed leaves and the damage
they cause is only cosmetic. Spray with folimat when attacks occur.
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees
Acmena
smithii
in the Landscape
 Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii can be used to create tall
screens, large hedges and large topiary. They can be planted in pots or confined areas.
Although they have the potential to grow into large trees, their size can be contained by
regular clipping. The trunk and roots only grow to serve the needs of the crown of the
tree, so the trunk and root system will remain small, while the tree is being kept small
by regular trimming. Neighbours-Be- Gone�Trees Acmena smithii are a long living
tree that don’t become woody or sick from long-term regular pruning. A well
maintained Neighbours-Be-Gone� Trees Acmena smithii hedge or topiary can last
for many decades. |
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Chris and Marie flew to LA recently for a
well-earned holiday. Whilst they were holidaying in LA
they couldn't believe how many
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii that
they saw. Chris and Marie observed that the
people of LA are very creative with their Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii and they found
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii hedges, screens and topiary shapes used in almost every street of
LA. |
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Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii
hedges, screens and topiary shapes |
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| One particular hedge located just off Melrose Ave caught Chris and
Marie's eye. They decided that they must shoot some footage of this
hedge and bring it home to Australia to create a Neighbours-Be-Gone�
Trees Acmena smithii TV ad. |
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Marie was concerned that Chris was
going to be arrested
George, a friend of Chris and Marie's, who is involved in community projects with
underprivileged
 youths, directed them to a Cameraman by the name of Dan who films
documentaries for a living. They asked Dan if he would help them to shoot their
Neighbours-Be-Gone� Trees Acmena
smithii TV ad and Dan agreed. When Chris & Marie were driving around
LA discussing and looking at which  Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii
to shoot for their TV ad Marie was concerned that Chris was
going to be arrested. All of the homes in Beverly Hills are protected by
security response and armed guards, you can imagine peoples
surprise when Chris knocked
on their doors asking them if they would mind
if he could run around nude behind their Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees
Acmena smithii!!Chris & Marie filmed the hedge of a lovely South African women
who told Chris & Marie that she really loved her hedge because it gave
her good privacy and she couldn't understand why everyone in LA didn't
have one!
 Whilst
driving around LA Chris and Marie took several pictures with their digital camera of the
Neighbours-Be-Gone� Trees Acmena
smithii hedges, screens and topiary shapes so that they could show our
customers the versatility of this beautiful tree. They observed that all the
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena
smithii screens were beautifully lush and green with bright new bronze
growth developing and that the screens were thick and dense with foliage growing right
down to the ground, making them a totally solid screen. Chris and Marie marveled at just
how beautiful a screen the Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii can create.
Marie says that she is glad to be home as now she can rest. Chris & Marie love
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii so much
that they spent most of their holidays filming and photographing The
Neighbours-Be-Gone�Trees Acmena smithii. |
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