During mild, dry weather it should be possible to plant deciduous hedges on well drained land and. If hedging plants are delivered when the ground is frozen or excessively wet, keep them in a frost-free shed with fleece wrapped around the roots. Continue with planting as soon as the weather permits.
Prune hedges. Cut back overgrown hedges towards the end of the month or early in March so that they produce new growth during the spring. if cut back earlier, the shoots may be killed by frosts or cold winds; if cut later, the dormant buds on the older wood may fail to produce new growth. Cut the top growth 1 ft. or more lower than the height ultimately required, so that there will be space for new growth to hide the old skeleton.
  Use a sharp saw for the larger stems, checking both height and width as the work proceeds and width as the work proceeds and dabbing each cut with Vaseline to seal the ends.