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| Hi All,
I'm feeling kinda lost on what to plant along the back of my property for a tall privacy hedge. I've read at least twenty threads on hedges, maybe more and I'm as unsure as ever about what to plant. Here's what I want:
Here's what I'm working with:
I've considered Thuja, Cypress, and Juniper. My guess is that slow to moderate-growing to is better for me because I don't want to trim often. Am I wrong? How far apart should I plant to make the wall? Thanks for the help! |
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- Posted by gardener365 IL 5/6 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 27, 12 at 7:49
| Juniperus virginiana 'Taylor' spaced 2' apart. I have some of these, I like them. Dax |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 27, 12 at 13:13
| anything that grows.. rather quickly to 15 feet [kinda the point of a privacy hedge].. WILL NOT STOP AT 15 FEET ... and i myself.. never figured out how to repeatedly trim something at 15 feet ... short of a big checkbook ... all height estimates are at 10 years.. double for 20 years ... etc ... ken |
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- Posted by strobiculate none (My Page) on Thu, Sep 27, 12 at 15:45
| Arbs be my choice. Junipers a possibility, depending on exact locations and conditions, you may able to grow some of the irish junipers. Numerous cypress to choose from. If chamaecyparis, a hedge of some of the moderate growers may be a show stopper. Tendency to pyramidal growth, but some pruning and close planting would give you the wall effect. How ambitious are you. You can espalier anything...know a place on PA that had a blue atlas cedar espalliered against a barn wall...pruned about once a year. Takes a bit to establish, but memorable. |
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| If you are really into pruning you could do a pleached barrier. There's a very successful whitebeam pleached hedge near me which increases the height of a 6 foot stone wall to about 15 feet. |
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| I've heard Sequoia sempervirens makes a good hedge, but haven't tried it personally. |
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| We're USDA 8 here, not 7. The top favorite for a skinny green screen is Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd'. Local bamboo specialists also sell a lot of plants to people who have priced the cost of fencing beforehand. |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 28, 12 at 13:33
| Agree with bboy - the 'Smaragd' arborvitae (aka 'Emerald' or 'Emerald Green') is the privacy hedge material of choice around here. Pretty inexpensive, you can obtain at a relatively good size to start, needs minimal attention and seldom will ever attain much more than 15' regardless of age. Much better suited to the Seattle climate than junipers too :-) I am also a fan of controlled bamboo as well . Perhaps not as dense a privacy screen as you may want however. |
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| Although the plant is everywhere here now if you want to see a known example of it used as a row the South Seattle Community College arboretum has a memorable planting of the 'Smaragd' at the rose garden. The tallest ones there had reached 17' by around 2005. It wasn't common on the market here until the 1980s, there may not be a lot of fully developed ones around. Multiple examples of the older 'Fastigiata' over 30' tall are known in Seattle, with taller ones having been seen elsewhere. |
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