Tree Screen and Evergreen Tree Screening - List of Tree
Screens
The Best Tree
Screen
Evergreen trees without doubt make the best tree screen available and look much better than any other plant used
for privacy screening windbreaks or just a straight forward evergreen hedge. Whether you want a very tall
Leylandii screen to provide shelter and privacy or just an ornamental box hedge to border some planting, their
foliage looks terrific throughout the seasons.
Which Tree Screen Species To
Grow?
Whatever your reasons for
choosing an evergreen tree screen, you are going to have to decide what species to grow. Ideally you want your
screening trees to be as maintenance free as possible which will save you time, worry, effort and money! Should
you want your tree screen in place as soon as possible, you cannot beat Leylandii as they grow very
quickly and bush out well once cut at the desired height. Having chosen Leylandii, you have set
yourself on a lifetime of regular maintenance to keep their height and girth in check and will require pruning
at least once a year.
You may find yourself in
conflict with neighbors, should they
become intrusive on their side of the fence. Should you impose this burden on your neighbor when he has
not asked for it? You may also get accused of cutting out light to properties around you, if you let
Leylandii grow too tall. These days, in most situations, people have the right to light. In all cases, you
may find national and local regulations governing the placing and growing of hedges and the responsibilities
you must take on.
The easiest and fastest
privacy screen is traditional fencing, but what can be better than an all natural growing privacy fence,
provided you have the time and patience to achieve the desired result.
Bamboo Evergreen Tree Screen
Keeping with high evergreen
screen trees, there is an alternative which is bamboo, which will grow 15 to 20-feet high quite rapidly.
Planted densely, bamboo creates an excellent evergreen screen, although it can appear flimsy and waver in the
wind. There is also a tendency to maybe top heavy if left to its own devices and be rather bare lower down, but
when planted to produce a good deep fence, they look good and nothing will get through them. Some bamboos drop
their lower leaves and can leave the surrounding ground very untidy and require you to do some sweeping away of
their fallen leaves.
Bamboo,
for all its good looks has a major problem in that the hardy varieties just keep growing and run far underground
and you may find them spouting up everywhere you don’t want them including your neighbors property.
Without a natural barrier, you may have to install a buried barrier to constrict their
runners.
Alternative Evergreen Tree
Screening
Maybe you were not thinking
along the lines of hedging and just
want to screen an eyesore or hide some wooden fencing and gain a little height on an existing fence. Your tree
screen could be destined to be a backdrop for other planting or used to divide areas of a garden. You can also
create permanent living rooms within a garden with evergreen screening plants and gain privacy where you can
retreat away from any nearby eyes, especially in urban areas where people live so close side by
side.
List - Evergreens For Tree
Screen
Consider these, including some broad leaf evergreens, which make wonderful evergreen screen trees:
Bay Laurel
,
Euonymus
Japonica, Elaeagnus,
Golden Privet
,
Green Privet
,
Grisellina
, Leylandii - green and gold, Holly,
Laurel,
Holm Oak,
Photinia
Red Robin, Privet, Pyracantha
, Viburnum
Tinus, Scots Pine,
Thuja-Western Red Cedar
, and Yew, all of which make a good tree screen.
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