The mountain laurel is another broadleaf evergreen suitable for hedges. One of its best features is that it blooms in late spring to early summer.
However, do not try to trim laurels as you would boxwoods. Laurels look best when they are allowed to grow into their natural mature shape. The pink-flowering types are the most popular. Among needle-bearing evergreens, yew bushes are perhaps the most classic hedge plants. They are popular partly because they tolerate shade. While some yews grow tall enough to serve as privacy screens, yews are slow growers. Deciduous hedge shrubs look great while in bloom but are just so-so during the winter.
Also, because they drop their leaves and stand naked for part of the year, deciduous shrubs make for less-than-ideal privacy screens. Lilac bushes are one of your more fragrant choices. To form a hedge with lilacs, simply plant several of them in a line, and do not fuss with making them conform to precise dimensions. Another deciduous shrub commonly found in hedges is the rose of Sharon.
It is a valuable plant for gardeners wishing to maintain a continuous sequence of bloom because it is one of the late-summer flowering shrubs that display color during a part of the season when many other bushes have already finished blooming for the year. Forsythia bushes are among the first plants to bloom in spring.
You probably will not want to prune them as meticulously as you would, say, boxwood. Most people agree that these early-spring flowering shrubs look best when allowed to "have a bad hair day. Like mountain laurels, privets are broadleaf shrubs that put out flowers, although their white flowers are not much of a selling point. However, not all varieties of privets are evergreen, and those that are will not necessarily grow well in your zone. Check with your local county extension to see if you can grow evergreen privets in your area.
Also, ask if they are invasive in your region. As with privets, azaleas can be either evergreen or deciduous, but their flowers are far superior to those on privets.
Stewartstonian azalea has it all: Its dense branching structure makes it a good hedge plant in contrast to the Exbury-type azalea, which has a looser branching structure. And, it is a shrub that blooms in early spring and offers good fall color.
Azaleas also bear flowers in a range of colors, including red, pink, white, orange, and yellow. Arborvitae shrubs have a dense growth habit that makes them popular privacy screens or windbreaks.
There are many types of arborvitae that come in various sizes, shapes, and colors. Although Canadian hemlocks grow as trees in the wild, they are often sold in shrub form for use in hedges. The MacPhail Woods site states, "Prune hemlock lightly but often during the first few growing seasons two to three times from late June to late August for two to three years.
After three years, prune once, in late June, as with white spruce. Toxic Plant Profile: Yew. University of Maryland Extension. Do your research before planting, choose a plant that suits your site, and you will be just fine. Keep in mind that a plant that tolerates both shade and sun will generally grow faster in more sun.
Planting an Amur Maple hedge in the middle of July in full sun with limited supplemental water is going to set the plants back significantly. The ideal time to plant is fall, after the hedges are dormant. You can also safely plant fast growing evergreen trees for privacy through the winter in areas where the ground does not freeze hard, and spring is also a good time. Doing this for fast growing shrubs saves your work and worry and saves the plants a lot of stress.
Once your hedge has been in the ground for several years and has had a chance to send roots deep into the soil, it will need very little supplemental water, if any. However, it is important to provide ample water during the first growing seasons after planting. The best way to do this is to lay a drip line along the length of your fast growing shrubs and run for an hour at a time every few days to water deeply.
Fast growing shrubs are very low-maintenance, but if you want optimum growth, applying a high-nitrogen, slow-release fertilizer will help.
It is best to apply in the spring right before growth begins. Spring is generally the best time to prune, as this stimulates new growth and ensures that no tender new shoots will be frozen if they emerge too close to winter. Yearly pruning, although it seems counterintuitive for a fast-growing hedge, really helps create a nice, dense hedge.
Flame Amur Maple is our favorite deciduous fast-growing hedge. It has outstanding fall color in fiery reds, oranges, and yellows. It can easily be grown as a hedge thanks to its multi-stemmed natural habit and can be maintained by pruning once per year.
It thrives in full sun to part shade, and it is quite drought-tolerant once established. Flame Amur Maple makes one of the best fast growing shrubs screens that provide shade in the summer and still allows light through in the winter. English laurel or Cherry Laurel can make an enormous fast-growing hedge. Under the right conditions, it can grow up to 3 feet per year! It does very well in heat.
It has glossy evergreen foliage and makes a very attractive large hedge with regular pruning times per year. English laurel grows in full sun to partial shade. It tolerates a wide variety of soil types and is very drought-tolerant once established.
It is smog and salt tolerant, and deer will not touch it. English laurel makes a tough-as-nails, versatile, and seriously fast-growing hedge. The perfect fast growing shrubs for large spaces where privacy is needed.
The hedge is considered as one of the best fast growing evergreen trees for privacy in the USA. Schip laurels or Skip laurels are a very popular shrub to use for an evergreen fast-growing hedge. They can easily make a tall and narrow hedge with pruning once per year and occasional shaping. They are fast growing evergreen trees for zone 5. Fast growing, it tolerates extreme winds, sun and shade and thrives in any well-drained soil in all but the coldest areas.
A fast-growing hedge that is particularly useful in windy and exposed sites. It will also tolerate all soils, except shallow chalk ones, and is also surprisingly good for pleaching. These flowering beauties can be used to create an informal or formal hedge that is low or high depending on maintenance. The hedging plants will tolerate sun or shade but require a lime-free soil. USDA 7ab. A cultivar that forms a brilliant, shiny leaved hedging plant with a smaller, darker green leaf than the species.
Fast growing even in very dry soils and exposed conditions. Laurel is fast growing hedging plant with large, bright green leaves.
Has a wide, spreading, open habit so often becomes unkempt. Tolerates most soils except shallow chalk , shade, sun and drought. This relatively fast-growing shrub hedge plant with shiny dark green leaves, is extremely useful for coastal and windy sites. USDA 6b Ivy grown on wires or on a frame produces a useful, narrow screen which is excellent in a hedging plant. The flowers, in early winter, provide food for insects.
Has lustrous dark green leaves and is best clipped into rounded shapes. Far hardier than is often assumed and grows well in containers. Tolerates both shade and sun but prefers well-drained soil. USDA 7b-9a. A stunning spring-flowering tree with foliage that goes from coppery red in spring through mid green to fiery red in autumn.
This hedging plant will tolerate sun or part shade, but is not good on alkaline or dry soils. A tough shrub with fragrant flowers from June to August followed by large orange hips.
The plant forms an informal, suckering deciduous hedge. USDA 2a-8b. Feeding and regular pruning will result in more blooms. USDA 3a-9b. Hawthorn, as its name suggests, is possibly the best stock-proof hedging plant. Tough and fast growing, it has white flowers in May followed by red berries.
Happy in many soils, sun or partial shade. A suckering, spiny, informal hedge that has white flowers in March and April, followed by blue-black sloes in autumn. Tough and fast growing, it tolerates many soils and conditions. This evergreen, dense hedging plant is still popular despite box blight. You can reduce its susceptibility by planting on free-draining soil in dryer areas.
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