Screening trees for backyard privacy

[Anonymous]

Carolina sapphire cypress. They are a beautiful blue-green, smell amazing, and grow quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Op here - those would be great except this is a generally wet area so I don’t think they will work.

Hmmm ours always needed a lot of water in the summer. Our neighbor has holly trees but they are old. Like 30 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Not native and ugly as sin

pp is insane. Arborvitae are beautiful and a great plant for a lot of locations.

+ 100 I love mine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Not native and ugly as sin

If you trim it right, it looks fantastic.

Another NP who hates the look of green giants. Terrible and ugly. As soon as I move in I rip them out.

[Anonymous]

It’s hard to beat Leland cypress or arborvitae as a screening tree. Evergreen. Hardy. In the shade they grow very slowly. Around town you might see some that are monsters but they are probably 25-30 years old. Sometimes you just have to start over. But I never see anyone who has cut them down.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Not native and ugly as sin

If you trim it right, it looks fantastic.

Another NP who hates the look of green giants. Terrible and ugly. As soon as I move in I rip them out.

You move often? Run around town cutting down screening trees? Or only in your mind?

[Anonymous]

LOL I’m picturing PP running around flipping $1M homes and tearing out all the landscaping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Not native and ugly as sin

If you trim it right, it looks fantastic.

Another NP who hates the look of green giants. Terrible and ugly. As soon as I move in I rip them out.

You move often? Run around town cutting down screening trees? Or only in your mind?

I've moved three times in 11 years all in Moco.

[Anonymous]

New suggestion -Yew. The native version is Canada Yew or American Yew, but I believe ours is a Hick Yew

We have one that is two stories tall, or really a group of them. They provide privacy around our raised deck, and we trim and shape it once a year.

https://www.thetreecenter.com/hicks-yew/?gclid=CjwKCAjwmv-DBhAMEiwA7xYrdyV_irpaIUQVxuxYfyFX0jmvsf7_faZYB5cJxplDmzTgBpX5Tu_clxoCj9sQAvD_BwE

We do not shape ours to this extent - kind of leave a natural form, while keeping it off the deck, but the picture shows height and privacy. Maybe it won't grow quickly enough for you? We had a mature hedge when we moved here. Some nursery's may have taller, more mature plants.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Not native and ugly as sin

If you trim it right, it looks fantastic.

Another NP who hates the look of green giants. Terrible and ugly. As soon as I move in I rip them out.

You move often? Run around town cutting down screening trees? Or only in your mind?

I've moved three times in 11 years all in Moco.

maybe you should see a therapist

I'm good thanks. I've made lots of money with each move. Not sure why that seems like a lot to you, a lot can change job and family wise in a decade.

Who knew people were so attached to their landscaping.

[Anonymous]

Juniper skyrocket

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Anonymous wrote:Cryptomeria might be just the thing, except for being non-native.

We have these as screening trees. They do take a few years (3 for us) to take solid root and start it’s expected annual growth height. We began w a few 6-8ft ones 10 years ago and now they are super tall, 20 feet maybe (haven’t measured for sure so don’t quote me in this).

Don’t let anyone oversell you on planting cryptomerias that are taller than 10ft. They don’t do so well compared to the smaller ones. The taller ones seem to take even longer to settle in. We have a few of these as well. They are now the same height (just about) as those that started as 6-footers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Not native and ugly as sin

If you trim it right, it looks fantastic.

Another NP who hates the look of green giants. Terrible and ugly. As soon as I move in I rip them out.

These don’t do so well during a heavy snow fall. The branch could break under the weight of the snow

[Anonymous]

Our laurels are huge and have no issues with the winter. They provide great privacy and the birds love them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:arborvitae green giants?

Not native and ugly as sin

What would you suggest instead? I'm looking for the same type of shrub/tree.

Disregard PP. Giants are fine.