Hello
We want to plant a roughly 45-meter (150-foot) long area with plants that provide privacy screening. We are considering Thuja Smaragd. They should be relatively low-maintenance and offer good privacy.
Do you have any other suggestions?
We want to plant a roughly 45-meter (150-foot) long area with plants that provide privacy screening. We are considering Thuja Smaragd. They should be relatively low-maintenance and offer good privacy.
Do you have any other suggestions?
Bamboo does not need nearly as much water as some sources suggest. It definitely requires significantly less than regular lawn grass. We have about 10 different varieties in our garden, and have had them for around 15 years.
In summer, we might water them once a week, if at all. Since bamboo is evergreen, it’s important to water it during winter as well. Most people forget this, and in spring the bamboo is dried out, not frozen. For example, our forsythia and dogwood need constant watering in summer; their leaves wilt quickly. Meanwhile, bamboo Bissetii only needs watering about once a month and is very resilient.
Best regards,
Sabine
In summer, we might water them once a week, if at all. Since bamboo is evergreen, it’s important to water it during winter as well. Most people forget this, and in spring the bamboo is dried out, not frozen. For example, our forsythia and dogwood need constant watering in summer; their leaves wilt quickly. Meanwhile, bamboo Bissetii only needs watering about once a month and is very resilient.
Best regards,
Sabine
P
Peanuts7421 Sep 2016 08:46lastdrop schrieb:
I wouldn't bother with cherry laurel.
It's neither ecologically beneficial nor simply easy to maintain and attractive (the latter two only if you keep it tightly controlled).
I would rather consider holly.Why is cherry laurel not ecologically friendly?
P
Peanuts7421 Sep 2016 09:05Sebastian79 schrieb:
I could still suggest blackberry – only hydrochloric acid really affects them; otherwise, they spread even more aggressively than cherry laurel.
And they are very undemanding – basically need nothing.Stop with the blackberry. How do you get rid of it anyway, except by digging it out completely? It’s spreading like crazy in our garden, which thankfully hasn’t been landscaped yet, and of course without producing any berries.
A landscaper once suggested yew to us. I’m not sure if it has been mentioned here already. It’s supposed to stay evergreen and you can cut it back completely; it will regrow green, so it won’t keep getting wider if you need to cover up the brown parts...
Similar topics