Tree Screens Using Evergreen Screening

                                                            The Best Tree Screens                                                                      Evergreen trees without doubt make the best tree screens 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 Screening Species To Grow?                                                      Whatever your reasons for choosing an evergreen 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 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 Plant 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 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 Of Evergreen Tree Screens                                                                                                                        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.

Tree Screens Using Evergreen Screening