GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post - USDA Zone 9 partial screening trees/shrubs

06-03-2006, 04:37 AM posted to rec.gardens

wrote:
Hi All,

I have a question which I am sure has been asked many times before
about screening plants (for zone 9). I have a picket fence approx. 4ft
(1.2m) high and 15ft (4.5m) in length which I would like to plant in
front of. I am not looking for a complete privacy screening hedge nor
something that is super tall.

Ideally I am looking for a medium coverage, approx. 10ft (3m) tall.

Suggestions so far have been pittosporums, bamboo or conifers, none of
which I am really interested in.

Any thoughts? I have tossed up ideas about weeping trees of some sort
like a weeping cherry that would grow higher than the pickets then
cascade over slightly.

Thanks Heaps

I really like Viburnum tinus. It is blooming now and will have great
metallic blue berries
when it finishing blooming. It is evergreen.

Also good is weeping Bottlebrush, Callistemon citrinus, Bottlebrush
bright red
blossoms, loved by hummingbirds. Evergreen.

Osmanthus is also nice. Fragrant blooms in early winter. Holly like
foliage.
Evergreen.

All can be grown as a bushy shrub or pruned up in a multitrunked small
tree
form.

Emilie
NorCal