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Evergreen screening
Matt Sidebottom
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Hi Im looking for advise on some evergreen screening. I have some trees on a boarder that runs along side a path. The path can see into my new kitchen extension. I want to grow some fast growing thick evergreen screening plants for privacy. Can anyone recommend something as im a complete novice in gardening. Thanks
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If its fast growing, you will be forever having to clip it to keep it under control.
Yew or holly can be clipped into a nice evergreen hedge. Holly has the advantage it deters people from getting too close. You could probably get pot grown plants a couple of feet high, and they will grow about a foot a year.
You can get trough grown instant hedge, ready done at a decent height but it will be expensive.
example
https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Instant_Hedging__Trough_Grown__Pre-Clipped.html
I have not used these so this is not a recommendation, just a suggestion.
I'd go for holly too Matt. The variegated varieties make very attractive hedges. Just stay clear of leyllandii as it takes over and causes more problems than its worth.