Privacy fences can even play a role in rural areas to add lush greenery to your landscaping ideas.
Loose structures can easily be made in most yards by using plants to create privacy fences with living walls.
What Is a Living Privacy Fence?
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The “loose border” is an alternative to hedges.
If you have plenty of space, a loose border of shrubs may be a better option.
In planning for a loose border, select shrubs that will attain your desired height and width.
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Hardscape fences like chain-link or masonry walls that are already installed can belandscaped with vinesfor a more attractive look.
Climbing roses, like vines, can also be used for this purpose.
Consider the form of the shrub and any color varieties in its flowers and foliage.
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The trade-off, of course, is in the added maintenance.
This is also true for shrubs with dense growth habits.
This popular choice for living fences offers an attractive, leafy green look.
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Privet Hedges
Privet(Ligustrum spp.
Azaleas
Azaleas(Rhododendron spp.
Along with producing attractive blooms, landscapers and gardeners can choose various colors to suit their home’s design.
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Similar to many azaleas, this holly is an evergreen species.
Blackhaw Viburnum
Viburnum flowering bushes provide year-round interest.
Its fall foliage color is purplish to bronzy-red or crimson.
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These bushes benefit from pruning.
Blooms can be red, pink, blue, purple, or white.
Rose of Sharon works well inshrub bordersthanks to its upright form.
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A row of these shrubs standing shoulder-to-shoulder forms a colorful privacy screen.
You won’t have to prune this species very much, so it’s suitable for low-care loose borders.
This shrub grows 4 feet tall and wide in a rounded shape, and it blooms in late spring.
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Its white blossoms transition into red fruits by autumn, and wild birds eat the berries.
Its glossy leaves are green in summer; in autumn, they become purple to red.
These striking floral bushes bloom in the spring for about two weeks.
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If you select a shrub-form cultivar, Canadian hemlocks can be maintained at the height you desire.
Common cultivars include ‘Gentsch White,’ ‘Aurea Compacta,’ ‘Sargentii,’ and ‘Pendula.’
A properly pruned row of these evergreen shrubs can form a dense and attractive hedge with feathery foliage.
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However, with pruning, it can be shaped into a well-behaved evergreen shrub.
White pines make one of thetallest living privacy fence optionsfor your home.
Juniper does best in colder climates with full sun.
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Theseconiferous evergreensoffer dense growth for living privacy fences.
)are an excellent choice.
Emerald Arborvitae
Evergreen shrubs, with their year-round foliage displays, are prime candidates for privacy screens.
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North Pole Arborvitae
A shorter arborvitae variant than Emerald is ‘North Pole.’
This needled evergreen tree can bring deep green hues to your space with plenty ofprivacy from neighborsand unwanted sights.
These evergreen shrubs are great privacy hedges that stay easy to prune, and they produce attractive red berries.
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As broadleaf evergreen shrubs, hollies make ideal screens around poolsno leaves or needles to clean up.
you’re free to easilyprune hollyto sculpt a beautiful, formal hedge.
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