Plants World

It’s a lazy, summer afternoon and you are relaxing in the pool.. wait a minute, your neighbor’s creepy kids are laughing at you over the wall! A man’s backyard is his kingdom, and any self-respecting king wants to keep prying eyes away from his kingdom. What you do in the backyard or the front, is your business and you have a right to privacy. A good way to get peeping toms to stop peeping, is to plant a privacy hedge. A thick, green, growing wall is the perfect deterrent to any intruders or snoopers. A hedge has branches and thorns, so nothing can pass through it easily. It gives a nice, clean, sophisticated look to the yard, like an English garden, instead of a jailed feeling with a fence or wall. Don’t waste time in constructing and building, pick a quick growing privacy hedge, to get your green wall up quick. You need to pick the right plant, to ensure that your hedge is green throughout the year and grows tall. Below are some privacy hedge plants, that are commonly used to grow such hedges.

Privacy Hedge Plants

Popular privacy hedge plants are evergreen trees. They cut down the noise level as well as maintain privacy. They are also tall privacy hedges. It is best to plant more than one type of evergreen in your hedge, so that if there’s a disease, your entire hedge won’t be destroyed. Here’s a list of evergreens that can be used for your privacy hedge:

• Yew
• Thuja Emerald green
• Leyland Cypress
• Thuja Green Giant
• Dawn Redwood
• Blue Sapphire Cypress
• Nellie Stevens Holly
• Spartan Juniper
• Blue Spruce

Shrubs are fast growing privacy hedges, that require less maintenance than evergreens, and are cheaper. They are considered one of the best privacy hedge plants. Some popular shrubs used for a privacy hedge are:

• Red Tip Photinia
• American Cranberry
• Chinese Privet
• Red Twig Dogwood
• Fragrant Tea Olive
• Willow Hybrid

A new fashion among privacy hedges, is using a trellis with climbing vines. Vines provide privacy along with more coverage area at a lesser expense. They also flower for most of the year, so your yard has a beautiful flowered border. Vines which can be used for privacy hedges are:

• Honeysuckle Vines
• Trumpet Creeper Vines
• Sweet Autumn Clematis
• Virginia Creeper Vine
• Wisteria Vine
• Bougainvillea
• Arctic Kiwi Vine

Another style is using tall grasses, which is an inexpensive, fast plant, that can be used for privacy hedges. Silver Feather Maiden Hair grass and Zebra grass are two grass varieties used nowadays. For privacy hedges evergreen in all seasons, Bamboo is also popular, to its low maintenance and quick growth.

Be sure to communicate with your adjoining property owners to prevent any encroachment issues. Hire a landscape architect to advise you on what plant to use and where. The benefits of privacy hedges are multi-fold, they block undesirable views and maintain privacy. They help reduce noise levels, help the environment and increase property value. Neighborhoods which use a privacy hedge, as a property divider, have this clean and green look, while maintaining uniformity. So instead of a concrete wall, opt for a privacy hedge, to prevent your neighbors from watching your every move, and do your bit for the Earth’s environment.