Musser Forest http://www.musserforests.com/ is good for quantity at very reasonable
prices. they got a list "plant by use". I have been quite happy with them. Ingrid

"presley" wrote:

You could consider a mixed hedge of bush fruits and nuts. Things like bush
cherries, sand cherries or plums, filberts, cornelian cherry, bramble fruits
like raspberries, blueberries, etc. Most are not evergreen, but will still
make a pretty impenetrable hedge over time and the bonus will be lots of
edibles for you, and attracting lots of birds to your yard, if you like
watching them. If you must have evergreens, you could consider some form of
boxwood if that is an appropriate plant for your zone, although it is slow
growing, a low growing laurel, like shipka laurel, or certain kinds of
viburnums if in a warmer zone. If you live in the northwest, either inland
or on the coast, oregon grape can make a fine impenetrable evergreen native
plant hedge, and responds well to clipping.
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
news

wrote in message
oups.com...
I have a flat clear backyard that I'm wanting to enclose. It's about
125 feet wide and 300 feet long. I looked into putting up wooden
privacy fence, but the cost was around $12000.
...snip...

Privet looks nice, but researching
that makes me think it's a maintenance nightmare. Canadian Hemlock is
ok. Suggestions are welcome.


Privet is a declared weed around here, it makes 1000s of berries in autumn
which fall on the ground and are also carried by birds and by water. If
the
environment is suitable for privet you will soon have an ocean of privet
seedlings and so will your neighbours. The tree is really tough, the
seedlings are really tough and did I mention that you will soon have them
everywhere...


David






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