What once was woods is now this. Considering Green Giant evergreens to block? (Kia dealership is being built 😡)
by PalJuicy
What once was woods is now this. Considering Green Giant evergreens to block? (Kia dealership is being built 😡)
by PalJuicy
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Green Giants are a solid choice because you need height and you need it yesterday. A car dealership means massive floodlights blinding you at night and noise all day long. Do not plant them in a straight single file line like soldiers. You need to stagger them in a zigzag pattern. This gives you a thicker screen much faster and actually absorbs the light and sound waves coming off that future asphalt lot.
A wall of tall evergreens is functional but it looks like a prison fence if you stop right there. You need layers to make it an actual landscape. Bring the bed out into your lawn and plant sweeping masses of mid sized shrubs in front of the trees. Add a couple of native understory trees like dogwood or redbud to frame the view. This builds structure and creates visual calm by keeping your eyes inside your yard rather than looking at the commercial lot behind it.
When you put them in the ground make sure you leave the root flares exposed. If you bury them deep like fence posts they will rot and die right when you need them most. Connect the entire planting area with a thick layer of mulch instead of leaving grass between the trees. You have to water them deeply all summer because that clear cut site just ruined the natural moisture retention your property used to enjoy.
Standard 56 cypress trees should do the trick here
Diversify your hedge. Wouldn’t want a single disease to while out your entire row. Use different species in the hedgerow.
Personally I would move. This has been my fear the last 8 years because I back up to farmland that’s been for sale the last 5. I know it’s coming just a matter of when. They just planted again so figure I’m good at least another season.
Gonna add that having a mound even two feet would be good, like a berm. And they won’t block noise unfortunately. You would need 100 feet of solid mature dense trees to help much. But the sights and lights will get blocked Â
Our local Lowe’s had several super healthy huge green giants on sale for around $10-$20 as of yesterday! Check them daily if you need to save some cash.
Go make friends with the paving crew and get them do your driveway on the side.
Did you go to any of the meetings regarding the development. Maybe they are already planning on putting something on their side to achieve the same.
When buying a house, always check where the house is in relation to the zoning map. If it backs up to an area zoned commercial or high density residential or a busy road, that beautiful woods behind your house can disappear at any time.
I add the busy road to the list of things to watch out for because all too often folks say ‘oh yeah, there is a road back there, but there is a 25 feet buffer of woods.’
And then a few years later, the road gets widened and that tree buffer gets replaced by new lanes of traffic.
Ask the new land owners to pay for it. You never know. They may be keen on having good neighbors. You don’t get what you don’t ask for
Not sure how far back your property goes, however unless it’s against code, you could plant three Leland Cypress at the very back of your property line to sort of reestablish the tree line. However if this closer area is the end of your property then I would agree/encourage a mount of the property line with staggered Green Giants and then some other evergreen shrubs in front of those.
Get the right evergreen. The ones i got years ago have shallow roots and when they get big can come down in strong winds.