Have just discovered the house beside us will be a 2 storey with a view right into our backyard! Wanting to plant some established FAST GROWING screening trees to impede their view - Any Suggestions?
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Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 4Aug 26, 2008 10:32 pm evergreen ash (fraxinus griffithii)
Cottonwood hibscus (hibiscus tilleaceous) very fast grower and easy to maintain. The above posted one is great. Vibernum emerald lustre with its glossy green leaves. grows to about 3-4mtrs Magnolia little gem and magnolia kay Parris will also make a good evergreen screening hedges but may cost a bit and are slow:( will smell bloody wonderful though Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 6Aug 27, 2008 10:23 pm Got to get the right sort of Pittosporums though... The silversheen and green pillar only grow to about 3m. There's another common sort (? can't recall the name right now ?!), which grow to about 5 or 6 metres and are very fast. Plant some slow growers in between.
For a real "green wall" there's the famous Leighton Green. There's none so fast growing, thick and tall. It's the mother-of-all of screening plants. It's got some bad press in recent years for its "Berlin Wall" character - a massive green barrier. But I think if your neighbours are rude enough to plan a build that overlooks your yard, you're quite entitled to erect a big thick green wall. (I know I would) Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 7Aug 27, 2008 10:28 pm And some are environmental weeds, so just check first - maybe with your local nursery 'chelle We have a hand-over date...15/10...but I won't hold my breath! http://people-in-glass-houses.blogspot.com/ Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 8Aug 27, 2008 10:57 pm Cabinfever There's another common sort (? can't recall the name right now ?!), which grow to about 5 or 6 metres and are very fast. Plant some slow growers in between. Limelight or Pittosporum Tenuifolium? Has light green variegated leaves....? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Another vote for Lilly Pilly ......2 years what fence? mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 9Aug 28, 2008 1:00 am Yes, the limelight ! Thanks Got quite a few of these. I was going to go with the lily-Pily, but was warned they are suseptible to frost. Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 10Aug 28, 2008 8:27 am Cabinfever Yes, the limelight ! Thanks Got quite a few of these. I was going to go with the lily-Pily, but was warned they are suseptible to frost. Did you get aphids on the young shoots when they were small....apparently one of the issues with limelight? I struggled with that for a while - Pyrethrum spray gets expensive on a hedge of 8 plants.... ....I got around using a Peter Cundell trick of companion planting with garlic chives, apparently the moderately strong scent of the chives throws off the aphids, worked a treat. One garlic chive per pitto and once the pittos were about a metre or so they the garliv chives died off in the shade and the pittos could handle the odd aphid invasion. Didn't have the frost problem with the lilly pillys but by the suburb had built up a bit we didn't have the same number of frosts (which are probably less than in your part of Tassie) but the limelights were the first plants we put in before the suburb established and had survived some pretty bad frosts. mmm....donuts Homer Simpson 1956- Links: Site Costs Ready Reckoner | H1 Addiction Medical Advice | Château TDL: The Backyard Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 11Aug 30, 2008 7:52 am Tolstoy Have just discovered the house beside us will be a 2 storey with a view right into our backyard! Wanting to plant some established FAST GROWING screening trees to impede their view - Any Suggestions? My neighbours did the same thing but they were required to install frosted windows on the offending areas which has given us peace of mind. Now I am wondering if this is a legality or they were just being nice... Cabinfever Got to get the right sort of Pittosporums though... The silversheen and green pillar only grow to about 3m I just bought another 4 Green Pillars this week; IME they have grown well and are impossible to kill (I tried my hardest!). Never watered them once in 4 years and they're 3 metres high and look great (FWIW other neighbours have James Stirling and they are not very bushy at all and don't do a lot to block out anything...but they look better IMO). Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 12Aug 30, 2008 9:48 am Interesting you say that Kelly.
I agree with you on that. The James Stirling was the variety that Screen Master was developed from way back and in my experience growing them neither variety really get as bushy as they should and that is still with lots of clipping. The more clipping that is done, the denser the foliage will become on almost any plant. I still can't get the bloody things to fill out There must be lots who can get them dense and bushy because lots are sold surely not just the name sells them Re: Screening Evergreen Trees? 13Aug 30, 2008 6:43 pm ^^ I just saw some people buying a tonne of these at my local nursery today and I was tempted to intervene to save them the heartache.
I do think James Stirlings look lovely but they are quite....um, wispy? My neighbours also found that almost every second one died...but I sorta offered a view that maybe the were planted too close. Well, it made sense to me at the time and they thought so too I am also surprised to hear that your heavy pruning hasn't resulted in some additional 'bushiness' D@mn recalcitrant pittosporums!!! A survey must’ve completed by a certified surveyor. This form part of every DA requirement 3 223588 |