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?
My household gardener (my wife – a trained landscape gardener) didn’t want cherry laurel, boxwood, privet, or especially thuja (I’m not sure if I spelled all of these correctly).
She advises against bamboo for everyone because it requires a lot of water and spreads aggressively, sometimes even penetrating root barriers.
She decided on three hedges:
1. A hedge of photinia. Depending on soil nutrients (or sunlight), the leaves at our place are either green or reddish (I assume these are the reasons for the different colors). It also produces very attractive flower clusters. We planted this hedge to conceal our L-shaped retaining walls and a railing above the retaining walls for fall protection.
2. A flowering hedge to hide another fence and to limit the view toward less favored neighbors. Since these neighbors excavated their entire property, we can see across their whole lot. My wife selected various shrubs (e.g., lilac) that bloom at different times.
3. A fruiting and flowering hedge planted together with our beloved neighbors. This hedge includes fruit plants such as raspberry, blueberry, and aronia. It is supplemented with other plants like elderberry and lilac.
On the third boundary, the neighbors planted cherry laurel. The front part of the boundary area hasn’t been planted yet. When the time comes, we will plant photinia there again.
She advises against bamboo for everyone because it requires a lot of water and spreads aggressively, sometimes even penetrating root barriers.
She decided on three hedges:
1. A hedge of photinia. Depending on soil nutrients (or sunlight), the leaves at our place are either green or reddish (I assume these are the reasons for the different colors). It also produces very attractive flower clusters. We planted this hedge to conceal our L-shaped retaining walls and a railing above the retaining walls for fall protection.
2. A flowering hedge to hide another fence and to limit the view toward less favored neighbors. Since these neighbors excavated their entire property, we can see across their whole lot. My wife selected various shrubs (e.g., lilac) that bloom at different times.
3. A fruiting and flowering hedge planted together with our beloved neighbors. This hedge includes fruit plants such as raspberry, blueberry, and aronia. It is supplemented with other plants like elderberry and lilac.
On the third boundary, the neighbors planted cherry laurel. The front part of the boundary area hasn’t been planted yet. When the time comes, we will plant photinia there again.
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Sebastian795 Aug 2016 10:10But there are bamboo species that do not spread aggressively – your wife should normally be aware of that.
Sebastian79 schrieb:
But there are bamboo varieties that don’t spread aggressively – your wife should normally know that. .I can ask her when she’s back from her vacation.
As far as I remember her argument, bamboo always grows toward water (i.e., high demand). But that’s a topic I don’t deal with much.
The choice of plants is up to my wife – I only have a financial veto right. .
Sebastian79 schrieb:
But there are bamboo varieties that do not spread aggressively – your wife should normally know that. .All Fargesia species are supposed to grow in clumps rather than form rhizomes. And yes, they require a lot of water.
I believe the Photinia plants (glossy photinia) are somewhat frost-sensitive when young.
Some people here have privet; there are varieties that keep their leaves during winter.
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Sebastian795 Aug 2016 11:53I could still offer blackberry - only hydrochloric acid can harm them, otherwise they grow even more vigorously than cherry laurel.
And completely undemanding - they basically need nothing.
And completely undemanding - they basically need nothing.
ypg schrieb:
I believe that Photinia plants are somewhat sensitive to frost when young.Last autumn, we bought 80cm (31.5 inches) tall plants for 11 euros each.
The last winter was quite mild (which is almost always the case here anyway).
So the "young years" phase should be over now — I hope.
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