Jim, I just got this idea for you! You’re the first one who advocate mixed screening plants and it makes a lot of sense!! Would you make a video gathering pictures of mixed screening plants of your viewers from different parts of the country and discuss the specifics of them?! I am gathering ideas of what will be a nice blend of screening plants and the number of each and what kind will be compatible together, say in full sun, part sun and shade setting, grow zone, etc!! Knowing how it will look together before planting will help a lot in decision making and prevent costly and timely mistakes!!! Thanks a lot Jim and Steph!! 😅
Hello! I live in zone 8b in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. We obviously have the heat, but it does snow here sometimes and hard freezes every year. I have problem neighbors whose giant poodles are agressive and on my property chasing trying to bite me and my dogs. I want to totally block them out. I was thinking about a thuja, however I live next to woods and have deer cleaning me out. I want something tall along my driveway. My driveway is right on the property line with my redneck neighbors. They have tons of rusted junk in their yard. It would be so nice not to see it and keep their dogs out, as well. What do you recommend? I have been looking for ten years. On the other side, I planted Leylandii on the other side and a drought came last year and brown branches appeared on all of them. I dont know if it is blight or drought. Anyway, I do not want to plant them again. I would really appreciate your recommendation for driveway privacy screening. Thank you!
Suddenly I realized WHY ypu named your pup, HOLLY. The holly varieties plants are familiar old friends to you guys. Now I get it. ❤ I just love attending horticulture school, School of Plants, by the Putnams.
I’m so glad I found your channel. We are planning to install 400’ of privacy hedge on my property in Houston, TX this year and because of your videos, I have decided not to plant 150 of the same plant!!!
This is a much needed video! Personally I feel like this is one of the most important topics because privacy and a good backdrop are key to enjoying our outdoor spaces. Also picking the right screening plant is key to avoiding maintenance headaches. Just such an important video! Thank you so much for taking the time to make this!
We used Tea Olives and Schip Laurels for our screen and we used Green Giant Arborvitea, Carolina Sapphire and Yoshino Cryptomeria trees along our back area to screen out the railroad tracks. Everything is 4 years old and really starting to fill in nicely😊
@missdeeva2266, Hi, it does sounds like a great combinations of trees! May I ask you how do you place them, ie, alternating, same type, rotate or mix in, etc? For what you did, are you happy with it and would you arrange them any differently and in spacing? I’d love to see how your screen looks like! Wish you can send pictures to Jim and have him show the pictures in a video! Jim, I just got this idea for you! You’re the first one who advocate mixed screening plants and it makes a lot of sense!! Would you make a video showing pictures of mixed screening plants of your viewers and discuss the specifics of them?! I am gathering ideas of what will be a nice blend of screening plants and the number of each and what kind will be compatible together, say in full sun, part sun and shade setting, grow zone, etc!! Knowing how it will look together before planting will help prevent costly and timely errors!! Thanks a lot for sharing your ideas!! 😅
I needed this very much. Thank you Jim & Steph! This video is perfect addition to all of your other amazing screening videos. Very helpful & informative 🙏🏻💘
Thanks for including Magnolia Stellar Ruby and Serendipity. I don't think many people know that there are now Magnolias dense & compact enough to serve as screening plants.
Your videos have been so helpful for me! A transplant from FL, and after many years I'm still learning so much about this planting zone. I've gardened for many years and now actively landscaping my yard/garden, I've gained so much great information and have purchased some of the shrubs/trees you've featured after watching your videos. Love camellias, viburnums, lorapetalum, and so many more! Needed this screening shrub video. Thank you!
This is great, Jim! Exactly what I needed right now. I already have many of these based on your recommendation and they are all thriving! Thanks, again! 😊
Thank you for this video, I need to add some screening / hedges to the garden. I keep pausing the video and researching the plants, it's gonna take a while to get through the whole video 😂
Thanks Jim. I am in zone 6 Massachusetts and did not know i could grow a camellia here. i am always envious of the plants when you show them. I have ordered one winter snowman to see how it does. and will get more if it survives it's first winter. i will protect it from the winds. thanks so much for the great video.
Great video! Thanks for mentioning you have an accessible video for lower zone plants. Living in a 6B on top of a hill that catches a lot of wind, I like to plant down a zone. I have learned so much from watching your videos.
I've been going to Broadwells for over 29 years. I'm in my last home possibly. I live planting and unformatted year and 2022 we lost most of our knock roses to rosette disease... UGH so we've dug up about half or more than half and burned 🔥 them up in our fire pit. We've replaced sone with Tall lorepetulam and medium size and this year we will buy more shrubs variegated to replace all the duseased roses in the front 2 beds, once we dig up the root balls of those diseased dead roses. We won't buy knock outs ever again, sad to say, they were our most Beautiful plants in our yard for almost 12 years! Makes me cry most of them have perished to this disease. I lost 45 plus knock out roses in all colors but white. We don't have any white roses. Cryptomeria is a favorite large shrub like tree we have in the front and want some for the back now.
Excellent video full of detailed information. Providing gardeners with helpful tips from your years of experience is really appreciated. Looking forward to future videos.
Great Info. Thx. Any suggestions for a shrub in a mostly shaded area until late afternoon. Dry areaNorth Texas. Zone 8. Upwards temps up to 110 for weeks in summer.
I’ve seen some situations where a 20+ foot tall screen would be necessary, there are some awful city backyards that butt up to apartment buildings or something… then you’re also giving those tenants something green to look at their windows.
How about an extremely windy droughty south facing property? What would you suggest no thorny plants that stick you ,please. You are very informative and I thank you for your time and effort. I like an oriental type garden.😊
When planting along a property line, how far, on center, should you plant from the line? Is it half of the mature width of the plant? Also, should you factor in a walkway between the line and plant?
Fabulous video! I have podacarpus maki and love them. The other varieties were new to me, so thanks for sharing. Lots of options to explore. Thanks for sharing. Robyn
Agree that the arborvitae and Leyland really suffered or died this past summer with drought and awful heat we had in MS this year. But a lot of the natives suffered or died too.
I’m in SW Ohio and the deer love the Emerald Green Arbs..yum! I plant the GG Arbs, the problem I have is not snacking on them but Bucks rub them in the mating season and break branches.😡
I don’t think the tea Olive appreciates the winds. I planted it in a quite sunny spot in zone 9B. It dried out pretty quickly. My plan was to plant a hedge of those along the fence. I will try again. But I would plant it during the winter time in zone 9B-10 so it gets established through the winter perhaps. I absolutely love this plant. It does just fine in the shade for sure.
Foster's holly = super hardy! 'Sunny Foster' is the gold suffused version. I have a related 'Round-Leaf' Fosters in my yard, which is basically a spineless form of regular Fosters (and extremely rare - I don't think it's even out in commerce). 'Round-leaf Fosters' has an occasional tip spine, but most tips are rounded. If you can find Ilex integra 'Ogon', my goodness what a great looking plant. Hard to find except through mail-order though. New growth is brilliant chartreuse. And being integra, is spineless.
Seeing your dogwood tree makes me long for the Kousa 'Scarlet Fire' dogwood that is scheduled to be delivered to me in April, plant it and get it established.
I've tried coppertop twice in the PNW z8B. Had two z7 cold snaps during the winter killed the first one. I tried a different location last spring, close to the house 14 degrees might have killed it. I will find out shortly. Both were spring planted.
A lot of these are listed as zone 6 hardy… which of them are “technically” zone 6 or marginal in zone 6? I LOVE my Prague Viburnum! (pronounced correctly!)they look so good at night with ambient well done lighting.
I assume that these are full sun screening and foundation plants? I live in the woods under a dark canopy (clay and dry) and want to put a green wall in one part of my yard so I am always looking for suggestions.
Thanks! I need to screen out an apartment building, but have shade to part shade. Would wax myrtle grow thick enough with this exposure (WNW)? I don’t want to see through it. There’s a privacy fence it’d go in front of, and I’d plant understory shrubs if it got thin at the bottom. I’m in Chapel Hill.
Has anyone out there seen a Pink Dawn viburnum which grows quite tall and is blooming in February in zone 6b and it’s snowing! I am beginning to think it might be an heirloom
Do you have any suggestions for zone 10 on the west coast, I’m on the central coast and we have mild cool summers never freezes in winter and are high is hardly every over 80
Jim, would you have any advice on acquiring trees here in south Florida? Osmanthus Fragrens - not a one nursery/supplier nearby has them. How about online seeds? Pittosporum crassifolium is another screen tree I'm looking at and cannot find.
I've lost a lot of Chindo's due to those vortex events that go 10 - 15 degrees below the zone average. They really need to be protected. I've heard the 'odor' of those anise blossoms is unpleasant. Is it really that noticeable?
@@HandcraftedintheFoothills me too, lost mine to the polar plunge last year and haven't been able to replace it. Jim has mentioned before that it's pretty much unavailable anymore. Stinks 😩
@@andydzieciaszek586 will have to find an alternative then...there is a gorgeous one at the TN University hospital in Knoxville I guess I can go there and admire it lol
I found mine at Lowe’s, but it was wedged in with other lorapetalum varieties and I only found it because I looked at all of the tags. I hope you find one! They are beautiful.
I kind of hate my neighbor for planting a needle point Holly next to my pool where people walk barefoot. Be considerate to your neighbors when planting those. Lol
Jim, would you have any advice on acquiring trees here in south Florida? Osmanthus Fragrens - not a one nursery/supplier nearby has them. How about online seeds? Pittosporum crassifolium is another screen tree I'm looking at and cannot find.
