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[quote=Anonymous]I highly recommend planting a mixed privacy screen with a variety of species. If you do the row of evergreens like thuja green giant recommended above or related species, inevitably one or more will die and you'll never be able to replace it with another the same size. I'd recommend if you have the room planting a deep privacy border 12 feet wide with evergreens closer to the property line and then bordering the inside section with blooming shrubs or perennials. Some recommendations:
 - American holly
 - Wax myrtle
 - Thuja varieties as one ore more specimens, not a row of clones
 - Dwarf southern Magnolia cultivars, e.g. Teddy Bear

You can mix in deciduous trees such as:
 - River birch
 - Serviceberry
 - Redbud
 - Hornbeam

For the inside row visible from your house, blooming shrubs:
 - Smooth hydrangea, such as Haas Halo, Lime Rickey, Invincibelle
 - Clethra alnifolia
 - Itea virginica
 - Ninebark
 - Rhododendron catawbiense
 - Mountain Laurel
 - Low Scape Mound aronia

Perennials:
 - Joe Pye Weed (dwarf cultivars available)
 - Ferns such as Cinnamon fern, ostrich fern, lady fern - great as groundcovers under trees like river birch
 - amsonia hubrictii
 - ground covers such as creeping phlox

All these suggestions are natives - beautiful and tough plants that will attract birds and pollinators.
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