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Fri, Mar 1, 13 at 11:32
| What I consider rather disreputable builder, North Main Design and Building, has talked the city of Greenville into letting him put a street 5 feet off my back fence. I need a fast privacy screen 15-25 ft tall. Upstate SC weather is 90s in the summer and 40s and 50s in winter but sometimes gets into the 20s. I want an evergree privacy barrier. Suggestions? The attached picture is my backyard view. The trees will be clearcut to make room for 10 McMansions. More the shame. |
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| A large running bamboo. Install a root barrier wherever you like on your side. I figure you don't care much what happens on the side against the road... |
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| No to the bamboo. Do consider a mixed screen to avoid issues associated with a monoculture (e.g., a disease coming in and wiping them all out). Pines are fast growing and cheap and can be used as filler while more desirable trees reach maturity. Evergreens for sunny areas: wax myrtle, hollies, southern magnolia. Partial sun - Carolina cherry laurel, chindo viburnum, Florida anise. Conifers like tree-size juniper (Juniperus virginana), leyland cypress, arborvitae, deodar cedar, Japanese cryptomeria, etc. Mix in a few non-evergreens to make it extra full in the summer and provide showier flowers, etc. |
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| There are clumping bamboos too. They behave as shrubs, no barrier needed. There should be many for SC. I am able to grow a few in zone 6, there are some for the south too. I think you can grow the more impressive thick culmed ones in your warmer area. |
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