Narrow Bamboo Privacy Hedge
It also offers the benefit of doing the job very quickly since no other hedgerow plant grows as quickly as bamboo.
Narrow bamboo privacy hedge. Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world so it can create a lush and exotic privacy screen very quickly. It forms an umbrella shape and grows up to 30 40 feet tall making a tight hedge rapidly. This plant also generates a lot of shade and helps relieve high sun exposed areas making it perfect to plant around in an outside terrace or courtyard. For a quick hedge or windbreak plant these plants 5 to 6 feet apart.
Variety selection before purchasing a bamboo plant you need to make sure you have selected a variety that will work for you. The timber bamboo grows dense very fast and does an outstanding job working as a privacy hedge. These fast growers can reach a height of 60 feet and a spread of 20 feet. Bamboo in containers another option if you don t want to get your hands dirty burying a rhizome barrier is to keep your bamboo hedge in a series of pots or barrels.
Seabreeze bamboo is a hardy sub tropical variety and the best choice for coastal areas and can also survive in cool climates and winds. But don t think that pots and boxes will solve all your problems. Formal privacy hedge trees need to be sheared and shaped every year to look neat and tidy and to form a perfect hedge. Callistemons also make wonderful hedges and the narrow habit of slim pictured above makes it an ideal hedge choice for narrow spaces or small gardens.
Or with some basic carpentry skills you can build a long narrow planter just the right size for your hedge. For a more gradual hedge plant 10 to 12 feet apart. And because the plants grow so densely bamboo is almost as good as a solid fence as a privacy screen. On the other hand informal fast growing evergreen bushes or shrubs for privacy only need low maintenance care year round.
Narrow columnar shrubs select a plant variety below to get all the details and prices we offer a large selection of shrubs that are perfect for use as narrow hedges or to fill those small spaces in home foundation plants and elsewhere in the landscape. Full to partial sun. Tolerates a range of soils but prefers moist well drained loams. Some varieties of bamboo are invasive so choose a slow spreading clumping.