Gardening & Landscaping
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~NB~ - Best Living Screen Recs
NB - What are your best recommendations for evergreen trees that act as a privacy screen? I'd like something that gets no taller than 15ft. Right now, I'm looking at this Arborvitae, but I didn't know if there was anything else that would work. It's the 1st thing that came to mind.
My zone is 7b and the area gets full sun.
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Re: ~NB~ - Best Living Screen Recs
Ilex (American or Chinese hybrids), Ligustrum, and Myrica.
All grow fast and are drought tolerant. Myrica is flood tolerant and salt tolerant as well. Serious disease or insect problems are uncommon, and bad soil/pollution don't faze them. They will also do very well in partial shade.
Euonymous is good, but frequently gets scale; if you don't mind treating the outbreaks, you could consider that too.
Sorry to butt in but do not plant arborvitae if you have deer in your yard. Around here we just call it "deer food" since they love eating them bare in the winter when there isn't much to eat. My parents just replaced all of theirs earlier this year after the deer stripped them.
And for that matter Euonymus seems to be at the top of their list:
http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/advice_and_how-tos/articles/the_buck_stops_here.php
Thuja is the scientific name for arborvitae BTW.
NB - Thanks. Privet is out. I can't tolerate the smell from the flowers. When it's in bloom, I smell it and start sneezing. That's the biggest downfall of being a gardener with allergies. You can't plant everything. I love oriental lilies. I think they are beautiful, but I can never plant them.
FoxFiji - Thanks. We're getting a fence around our yard; it will go up to a retaining wall. The trees will go along the retaining wall. We do have some deer in the area, but they typically don't come in my yard. I may go with the Holly because if someone wants to get bold andcome across my yard to break in, they'll get stuck trying to get out!