Evergreen plants for a privacy hedge
The crucial criterion of an evergreen Privacy hedge is the fact that this offers a constant privacy screen all year round and does not become transparent through a fall of leaves in autumn. That is why the beeches used for planting hedges are usually included in this category, although their leaves turn brown in autumn. As with some privet species, however, the leaves remain on the branches until spring Strictly speaking, these are not really evergreen, but they are still sufficient until new shoots have emerged opaque. In contrast, the following trees and shrubs are actually green all year round for planting one green privacy screen:
- Spruce trees
- Subspecies of the Thuja occidentalis
- Yew trees
- Cherry laurel
- bamboo
- ilex
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Advantages and disadvantages of cherry laurel as an evergreen hedge plant
Compared to the other hedge trees, the cherry laurel in particular has been increasingly present as a plant species in the new planting of privacy hedges over the past few years. This may not least be due to the fact that new cultivars in our latitudes are more and more resistant to winter and so young plants are no longer so easily perished due to winter frosts.
Cherry laurel hedges but also offer particularly good nesting opportunities for native songbirds and thus make an important contribution to nature conservation in your own garden. You should only be careful if you have one Cherry laurel hedge along a wall or in a particularly exposed area Hillside location planting: Very pronounced temperature changes between day and night can be a problem for the various types of cherry laurel during the winter months.Evergreen for the privacy hedge: the boxwood
It used to be Boxwood very widespread in Central Europe with its shrubby, compact growth. Various diseases and pests such as the boxwood moth are increasingly bothering the plants. Since this fight is difficult to win, if in doubt you should currently switch to other types of evergreen hedge plants.
Tips
Be careful with plants bought with bare roots: These should only be planted under really suitable weather conditions and at the recommended planting time. The critical growth phase of various hedges is less problematic if plants with a root ball or in appropriate plant containers are purchased.