I have a 480sq M L shaped garden with 2 mature walnut trees canopy along but set in by 2 meters from a 6 foot hawthorn boundary hedge with other trees (inc a sycamore and crab apple) in the garden. There’s a slight slope steepening to 25% to a 3 foot drop essentially edged by a dry stone retaining wall as another main boundary with the last boundary (the inner of the L shape garden) being box hedging surrounding the decking to the house. I’ve had a 2021 husqvarna 430x (oversized for the area) working within boundary wires and it’s been fine but I’m always conscious of the wires when lawn maintenance is scheduled etc. I also find that I have to have the mower cutting for 6 hours plus every other day to avoid tufts remaining. Moreover, the weight of the mower on the narrow rear drive wheels combined with its random bounce off boundary mowing has caused grass/earth erosion at some of the boundaries, particularly those on the shade.

I plumbed for the Yuka mini 2 1000 with Lidar but have upgraded the order to a Luba mini 2 1000 (with tri vision and edge cutting) but I’m second guessing if that was the right move given the trees next to hawthorn hedging and whether my first choice (the Yuka with Lidar) was the best choice…?