Band frontman Lee Vasey has trimmed a trio of hedges on Overstone Court in Sprowston into a family of giant heads.

The hedges have been admired by many passers-by according to Mr Vasey (Image: Newsquest)

Mr Vasey says the hedges, belonging to his neighbour who consented to him carrying out the work, have been grabbing the attention of passers-by since they were sculpted five years ago.

The hedges, which have been trimmed with large facial features and no bodies, share similarities to the sculptures in Rapa Nui, known to most in the West as Easter Island, in eastern Polynesia.

One of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, it is famed for its enormous and mysterious sculptures carved between 1250 and 1500.

Mr Vasey trimmed the hedges to be a family – the one the right is the father, the one in the middle is the son and the one on the left is the mother (Image: Newsquest)

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But Mr Vasey, who moved from Middlesborough to Norwich in 1981, says he had no official source of inspiration before starting the project.

He said: “I’ve always been an artistic type and just thought they would look amazing as three big heads.

What the hedges looked like in 2012 (Image: Google Maps)

“I did the big one first and I thought ‘wow, this is brilliant’ so I carried on with the other ones.”

He continued: “The big one reminds me of Tony Soprano, from the TV show, and then there’s the mum and the kid.”

Although he is an avid gardener, Mr Vasey had only ever taken on a project of this sort once before.

Lee Vasey has been playing music since he was 15 years old (Image: Lee Vasey)

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The 71-year-old said: “I did the bush in my back garden first but that got bashed down when we had the Beast from the East.”

When asked whether he has considered turning the hedges into a different concept, he said the task would be “incredibly difficult”.

He said: “It’s a living thing and it takes a long time to get the tree itself to a place where it is in the right form.

“When we get heavy snow, the hedges tend to droop a bit so weather also has an impact on the shape they take.

“So they are going to stay like that. I trim them and keep them as nice as I can.”

Mr Vasey’s neighbour did not want to comment on the hedge sculptures.