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Borders up to 1m | Hedges 1-2.5m | Screens 2.5m plus
Screens 2.5m plus

If your garden bed receives at least ˝ a day of full sun or more and your soil tends to dry out easily these screening plants are suitable for your garden situation:

Silver Stirling Pittosporum

Botanical Name: Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Silver Sheen’
Height x width: Up to 5m x 2m, trim to the height and width you desire.
Planting distance for screen: 75cm for narrow hedge, and for larger wider hedges plant 1-1.5m apart
Conditions: Plant in full sun to part shade in well-drained soils
Features: Hardy, very fast growing, fine rich silver-green dense foliage.
Landscape use: Tall screens, narrow screens, thick hedges, narrow hedges or planted individual specimens.

Tarata

Botanical Name: Pittosporum eugeniodes variegatum
Height x width: 8m x 5m or can be trimmed lower in a hedge/screen
Planting distance for screen: 1-2m
Conditions: Full sun to part shade in well-drained soils, very hardy
Features: A fast growing tree with narrow, oval, wavy-edged leaves that are variegated grey-green and creamy white.
Landscape use: Hedges, Screens, Windbreaks.

Castlewellan Gold

Botanical Name: Cupressocyparis leylandii
Height x width: 8m x 4m
Planting distance for screen: 1-2m
Conditions: Full sun, well drained soils, mulch around base, keep free of grass and weeds around the base. Wind, frost and salt tolerant.
Features: Attractive golden foliage which is brightest in summer, fast growing
Landscape use: Hedges, screens, windbreaks and specimens.

 Monterey Cypress

Botanical Name: Cupressus macrocarpa
Height x width: 10m x 5m
Planting distance for hedge or screen: 1.5-2m
Conditions: Full sun to part shade, well-drained soils, mulch around base, keep free of grass and weeds around the base, wind, salt and frost tolerant
Features: Thin green scented foliage, fast growing, bushy, can be trimmed, evergreen
Landscape use: Hedges, screens, windbreaks, shade and topiary

Laurustinus

Botanical Name: Viburnum tinus
Height x width: up to 3m x 3m
Planting distance for screen: 1-1.5m
Conditions: Sun to part shade, will tolerate a large range of soils but prefers moist well drained soils
Features: A rounded evergreen shrub with dark green glossy leaves that develop purple tones in winter, clusters of tiny white flowers in winter emerge from pink buds followed by blue-black berries.
Landscape use: Hedges, screens, garden specimens, containers.

Photinia

Botanical Name: Photinia robusta
Height x width: up to 3m x 3m
Planting distance for screen: 1-1.5m
Conditions: Sun to part shade, very hardy, will tolerate a large range of soils but prefers moist well drained soils
Features: A rounded evergreen shrub with dark green glossy leaves with bright red attractive new growth
Landscape use: Hedges, screens, garden specimen

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