Posted by admin | Posted in trees,shrubs | Posted on 30-06-2009
Tags: evergreen shrubs ligustrum
What to plant as a shield from the neighbors?
We live in the Austin, Texas area, so our climate is hot and somewhat dry and our soil hard and not very good. Our yard is domiated both above (shade much of the day) and below (many roots) by live oak trees.
I want to plant some tall hedges or shrubs along a fence to shield us from our neighbors (we can see right over the fence into each other’s houses). To give whatever I plant a fighting chance, I am going to create a raised bed and augment the sprinker system to help them get established before they have to compete with the oaks for water and soil.
- Any suggestions on the plan in general are welcome.
- Any suggestions on the plant to choose. We have ‘red tips’
elsewhere and they do a good job, but my wife is sick of them. I want something else with many of the same properties as a red tip (evergreen, tall, thick, hearty, fast growing). Any thoughts? One suggestion has been a wax leaf Ligustrum. I also am considering crape myrtles.
Maybe cleyera. I hear they are a good screen type plant for privacy and fairly fast growers. My aunt has some about as tall as her house. They are pretty. I have 4 of them and when the new foliage grows its a pretty orangy -red color.
Ligustrum Landscape Shrubs