Looking for tall narrow plants for fence cover? Landscape designer shares a list of her 18 favorite evergreen privacy plants, plus their growth rates!
This is the fourth video in a series about landscape design solutions to increase the privacy in your backyard.
🌱 THE WHOLE PRIVACY PLAYLIST… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efkmfC0O2A&list=PLT4LLM91GU1tDYtkriUPhQvuIqISuW8eS&index=1
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Here are some related videos that you may find helpful!
🌱 PART 1 OF THIS SERIES… How to design instant privacy for your yard 🪴 DIY Landscape Design Strategy:
🌱 PART 2 OF THIS SERIES… Creative Ways to Add Privacy 🪴 Landscape design strategies for instantly private backyards:
🌱 PART 3 OF THIS SERIES… How to select privacy plants to design a natural screen 🪴 Private backyard landscape design:
🌱 THE WHOLE PRIVACY PLAYLIST… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efkmfC0O2A&list=PLT4LLM91GU1tDYtkriUPhQvuIqISuW8eS&index=1
🌱 Designing a landscape from scratch? Start with USE, first:
🌱 Why proper plant spacing is so important:
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Great suggestions, dear Eve. Thank you so much!💜
Great suggestions, as always! Would clumping bamboo do well with only NE sun exposure (so morning sun)? And would it tolerate growing in a long skinny container? I love the look of bamboo and want to add to my small patio. Thank you💚
Wonderful information! Thank you for including growth rates, which is often overlooked and usually isn't even included on plant tags. It's very tempting to buy tiny plants online that local nurseries don't have, but some plants take years and years to put on any significant growth. I made this mistake. Also, I've learned the hard way that it's important to pay attention to your soil type and the soil needs of each plant, not just zone. Thank you again for your informative content!
Thank you for another great video on creating privacy!
the way literally just starting two days ago i've been looking for a tree/shrub to act as a windbreak since colorado blue spruces literally hate being alive here, far too humid and temperature variant apparently, so it's lost most all it's lower foliage. … the severe droughts and it being ontop of a sandy hill has not helped that at all lol. been trying to find something very cold hardy (6a) for such an exposed position as a windbreak, but also is extremely drought hardy in a very humid climate. i'll be looking into some of the ones you mentioned tbh.
Great and informative video! Do you have any suggestions/solutions for plants to use as a hedge to block cigarette smoke from neighbors? My neighbors smoke a lot, and the smoke drifts towards my backyard, and it's horrible.
I have used silverberry fruitlandii and pyracantha for privacy. They are growing very fast
Hi! Love your tenacity and exacting tips! I am trying to decide on what to put on my corners of foundation. I like blue juniper for the color (I have a green, blue front door), yet I really like the loose look of the dwarf hinoki cypress. I am trying to go for loose airy grasses, and a modern look. No stiff looking yews that look as if they’ll eat the house. 😬 I have a 1960’s ranch so I definitely want to keep things simple. Hope you’re having fun with your Chanel, Eve!❤
We have a 4 sided trench around our running bamboo. It must be tended like a toddler when actively growing in June and July. You cannot skip a single day of cutting new growth in June or it may escape into the neighbors yard. We’ve been able to keep it tame for over 10 years.
Some states have banned bamboo.
I got a row of skip laurels planted along my fence since it's good for areas that don't get a lot of sun. Arborvitae requires full sun.
Too much mis=information.
I've still read some horror stories about clumping bamboo.
How tall will it grow. Neighbor put on a deck that over looks my whole yard and decks. I need 15 to 20 ft. High but I only have narrow raised bed and my deck is right next to the deck. West side of my home the area gets very hot in the summer.
Plants you suggest are not cost effective.
Great ideas. Arborvitaes are great
I HAVE EXCITING NEWS!
🪴Design-Your-Own Landscape Layout ONLINE COURSE 🪴is now OPEN for enrollment!
For do-it-yourselfers who want to create their own landscape design, but just need a little extra guidance.
I’ll walk you through the design process, step by step, so you can create a practical, hand-drawn "layout plan" (a landscape design plan that shows the layout of the finished design).
Learn more and sign up, here!
https://www.gardenprojectacademy.com/diy-landscape-design-online-course/
Where have you been my whole life!! I love everything about you, your content, your knowledge and YOU – the way you present…you’re all content front to back! You have my complete attention. ⭐️
I’m in Seattle, may I please hire you?! 🙏🏻
Great video!!, I planted emerald cedar and they grow 10 cm each year, so never again, I am thinking in plant in white cedar now. What do you think? because my concern is that I will get lost of shadow and I need sun.
I need help! I have an ugly property line tree garden that will be gone. I have berry Poppins that I like, I was planning some nova zemblas behind those, and then I'm unsure of what else I want. We definitely want the Dr Seuss looking evergreens. But we would also like fast growing plants for privacy. I don't want a bunch of arborvitae though. So I'm conflicted. Thoughts?
I love podocarpus gracilior. The foliage is so delicate looking and it grows at a good rate, tall and wide. I am in a zone 10a, 9b.
You've convinced me to replace my Thuja oxidentalis (that I'm allergic to) with Japanese Temple Bamboo, with very stout root barrier. It'll grow fast to screen my condo from the parking lot and second story windows next door, and will be very low maintenance. Many thanks!
Your you tube channel is truly wonderful, thank you.
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love your energy, input, and encouragement – thank you!