Trees , shrubs , ornamental grasses , bamboos and vine can all offer privacy in a garden . evergreen plant plants are good for year - rung colour and covering . A hedgerow of multi - caulescent tree or shrubs is an good privacy fence and gives a stately look , but hedges must be pruned at least once each year to keep their shape . Ornamental grasses and bamboo necessitate less work and allow for movement as they sway in the wind . Vines can also give secrecy when grown on a treillage or wicket .
Trees
Trees provide seclusion in large garden and are good windscreens . kale tree ( Cordyline australis ) , for example , grows 6 to 15 feet improbable and 3 to 6 feet broad , and it can arise as a multiple - trunked Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture works hardiness zone 9 through 11 , clams tree featuressword - determine , gray - green evergreen leavesthat are 3 feet long and 2 to 3 inches wide . Its clusters ofsmall , fragrant , white flowersappear from former spring through summertime .
Another option is sweet-flavored bay magnolia ( Magnolia virginiana var . australis ) , which is hardy in USDA zone 5 through 10 . It bears 2- to 4 - in - wide , creamy whitened , cupful - shaped , fragrant flowersin spring and occasionally in summertime . grow 15 to 60 foot grandiloquent and broad , odorous bay magnolia isevergreen in warm climate . In cooler country , it fall back its leaves for wintertime and grows as a multi - caulescent shrub .
Shrubs
Shrubs grow as a hedge create an effective informal or formal privateness fence . Suitable shrubs include * * Taiwanese hibiscus ( Hibiscus genus Rosa - sinensis ) * * , a liberal , open bush that offers sheeny , dour - light-green , evergreen leaves and 4- to 8 - inch - wide cherry-red flower year - round . Chinese hibiscus is hardy in USDA zones 9 through 11 and grows 4 to 10 feet tall and 5 to 8 infantry wide .
Foster holly ( Ilex x attenuata " Fosteri " ) , hardy in USDA zone 6 through 9 , is another suitable bush for a hedging . It grow 20 to 30 foot mellow and 10 to 20 foot encompassing , and its leaves are evergreen , shiny , colored olive and have lilliputian teeth . A female foster holly bears its brilliant - red berries without any want for a male foster holly to act as pollinator .
Ornamental Grasses
A privacy fencing of ornamental grasses can be colourful and pragmatic because many decorative grasses take to be lop only once each year , in recent wintertime . Such ornamental grass include big depressed base ( Andropogon gerardii ) , the leaves of whichemerge blue - green or gray in give , mature to red - tinge greens and turn reddish - bronze in fall . The plant ’s purplish , fingerlike flower clusters rise above the leaves in previous summer . Big naughty prow grows 4 to 6 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide , and it is hardy in USDA zona 4 through 9 .
smooth-spoken plume smoke ( Erianthus alopecuroides ) , also an ornamental form , is named for itssilvery flower plumesthat appear in late summer and persist until winter . This grass has no serious disease or insect job . Hardy in USDA zone 6 through 10 , silver plume grass grow 3 to 10 foot tall and 3 to 5 metrical unit all-encompassing .
Bamboos
Bamboos make a small - upkeep privateness fence , put up they are clumping , not run , varieties . tend bamboos are invasive because they spread quickly , and so they should be grow in container or within barriers . clopping bamboos , however , spread only a few inches per year . Two varieties of clumping bamboo are Sunset Glow bamboo ( Fargesia rufa ) and scabrida bamboo ( Fargesia scabrida
Sunset Glow bamboo featuresorange - red nodes on green stems . Nodes are the leaven areas where leaves appear . Sunset Glow bamboo is intrepid in USDA zones 5 through 9 and grows up to 8 feet tall .
Scabrida bamboo , hardy in USDA zones 6 through 9 , offerslong , narrow-minded , emerald - green leavesand grows 12 to 15 feet tall and 8 feet wide of the mark .
Vines
stake with trellis or lattice attached to them can plump for a privacy fence of vines such as coral vine ( Antigonon leptopus ) or common jasmine ( Jasminum officinale ) .
Coral vine bearspink to white bloomsfrom late summer through fall . In one growing time of year , it develop 8 to 10 feet tall and 3 to 6 feet wide . Coral vine is stalwart in USDA zones 8 through 11 . In USDA zone 9 through 11 , it is evergreen and can grow up to 40 foot .
Common jasmine get 20 to 30 foot marvelous and 7 to 15 animal foot full , and it is hardy in USDA zones 7 through 10 . It loses its leaves for winter , but its sprawling , twining staunch render concealment even when they are bare . Common jasmine ’s flowers arehighly fragrantand appear from early summer through downslope .
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