Heckenschnitt Simulation

Take the trimmer in both hands and get to work. The hedge is really cut: the blade removes foliage exactly where it passes and leaves clean, even surfaces, while leaves flutter and twigs tumble to the foot of the hedge. Thin shoots snip, thick water shoots make the motor labour until the teeth are through, and a blade that hits a fence, wall or kerb stone cuts out with a bang.

Thirty jobs across five gardens await: a terraced-house front garden, a villa, a palace park, an allotment and an office campus, in the morning, at noon or in the evening, sometimes in drizzle. Privet, boxwood, hornbeam, arborvitae, cherry laurel, yew and photinia with its bright red new growth are cut into boxes, rounded tops, waves, battlements, archways, balls, cones and tiers. A guide mesh shows the target shape; precision counts, because cutting into the shape costs money and the next hard cut is never far.

After the cut comes the calm: rake the clippings into piles, pick them up with your arms, a garden bag or a wheelbarrow, unload them at the trailer and watch the van hitch up and drive away. Each job pays according to your trimmed share, precision, clean-up and time; earn stars and money, then buy a longer blade, a pole trimmer or a petrol machine in the tool shed. The hedge builder lets you grow your own hedge with any species, shape and size. Relaxed mode keeps a steady hand, realistic mode adds tool weight, sway and real deductions.