What narrow trees make a good Boundary/Privacy Screen in Zone 4 ?
Paul Francis
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narrow 8' tall privacy screen wanted for NJ (zone 6)
Comments (2)I think you're out of luck. Any clumpers that would survive your climate (same as mine pretty much) would not be very upright, and would take probably 5 years to reach the height you want. How about running bamboo in large pots? Might be worth a try, although I'd be most concerned about winter damage....See MorePrivacy Screen - Year Round - Zone 4a
Comments (8)white pine in my z5 MI.. have serious snow and ice load issues .. IN THE WORST OF STORMS ... not your every day stuff ... yet scots/sylvestrus dont ... google musser forests for bulk young plants ... NEVER go with all one kind of anything in a large project ... 3 or 4 different pines.. some abies .. some picea... etc ... diversity rules ... you might want to also look into thuja green giants.. but insist or make them single leader ... i think they are OK for z4 ... check that .... ken...See MoreFast growing tall privacy screen and tree for sunset zone 17?
Comments (8)Just getting back to this now. The plant on he left is a wonderful thriving but unruly-looking lemon tree. I’m not sure the variety but it has been producing delicious juicy lemons since December (all our friends and neighbors have been well supplied!). I’m not sure whether I should prune it for appearance since it’s thriving so well. The green “stuff” on the right is a big mess of things - in winter we discovered a nice flowing quince behind, covered with brambles, an old grape vine, and underneath some aloes and some yucky invasive species. There’s some kind of fruit tree in there maybe peach or plum but it’s gone wild, and an apple tree sapling planted in front. All in about 10x10’. We removed some of the brambles and invasive but for now left the rest so we don’t have to look at the neighbor’s deck there. We ended up planting a toyon, a coffeeberry and a Ray Hartman along that fence line. The lemon tree will stay but I hope to gradually prune back the sad stone-fruit tree and remove it as the toyon replaces it, and I should probably transplant the apple tree and the grapevine to a more suitable location this fall after they go dormant. We had too much more pressing to do on the house last fall/winter. Will I likely kill them if I try to transplant?...See MoreNarrow Juniper Privacy Hedge for Zone 9b California?
Comments (6)That’s interesting. I just went to the Monrovia.com website and put all my requirements in for growing zone, height, spread, evergreen, full sun and lower water use and only 3 options came up. Blue Arrow juniper, Taylor juniper and Spartan juniper and I didn’t even specify that I wanted junipers. Spartan juniper says it can get 5 feet wide at the base. So, I don’t know why it came up when I had filtered it for 2-3ft spread. Maybe the Spartan can be pruned to keep a narrow base? The Taylor juniper says it can grow to 30 feet and the Blue Arrow 12-15 feet. I think anything over 10 feet high will be good enough so even the Blue Arrow would be fine. Since the mature height of the Taylor juniper is 30 feet, does that mean that it will reach the 10 foot minimum height I need for privacy much faster than the Blue Arrow would? Since the intended use is for providing privacy from the neighbor’s upstair window view, are there any issues spacing them close together so there would be no gap between them at mature size?...See More
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