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Borders up to 1m
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Hedges 1-2.5m |
Screens 2.5m plus |
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Screens 2.5m plus |
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 If
your garden bed receives at least ˝ a day of full sun or more and you have
average well-drained soil these screening plants are suitable for your
garden situation: |
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Tarata |
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Botanical
Name: |
Pittosporum eugeniodes
variegatum |
| Height x
width: |
8m x 5m or can be trimmed
lower in a hedge or 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. |
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Toorak 'Gum
Tree'™ Alnus |
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Botanical
Name: |
Alnus jorulensis
[Evergreen Alder] |
| Height x
width: |
10m x 10m, but best kept
trimmed and contained |
| Planting
distance for screen: |
3m for large hedge, 1-2m
for pleached feature or narrow screen |
| Conditions: |
Very hardy, will handle
wet, keep contained in small areas as can be inclined to go for
pipes |
| Features: |
Very fast growing and
attractive tree with rich green foliage and a nice shape |
| Landscape
use: |
Windbreak, specimen, avenue, narrow
screens, pleached, trimmed as a specimen in small areas and left to
grow unrestricted on larger properties |
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Chilean Pencil
Willow |
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Botanical
Name: |
Salix chilensis |
| Height x
width: |
7-8m x 1m |
| Planting
distance for screen: |
70-80cm |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade in
moist soil. |
| Features: |
Narrow bright green waxy
leaves with the form of the tree being very upright and columnar. |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, avenues, specimen. |
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Neighbours-Be-Gone®Trees |
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Botanical
Name: |
Acmena smithii |
| Height x width: |
66m x 3m can be kept
trimmed to any height and width |
| Planting distance for
hedge or screen: |
1-1.5m |
| Conditions: |
Full sun to part shade in
well-drained soils |
| Features: |
Attractive glossy green
foliage with red new growth, fluffy white flowers followed by small
purple berries, fast growing |
| Landscape
use: |
Landscape use: Hedges, screens,
topiary, great for blocking out
the neighbours! |
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Silver Stirling™
Pittosporum |
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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. |
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Castlewellan
Gold |
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Botanical
Name: |
Cupressocyparis leylandii
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| Height x
width: |
8m x 4m |
| Planting
distance for screen: |
1-2m |
| Conditions: |
Full sun, well drained
soils, mulch around base, free of grass and weeds around the base.
Wind, frost and salt tolerant.
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| Features: |
Attractive golden foliage
which is brightest in summer, fast growing |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, windbreaks and
specimens. |
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Monterey
Cypress |
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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 |
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Leightons Green |
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Botanical
Name: |
Cupressocyparis leylandii
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| 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 green foliage,
fast growing and hardy |
| Landscape
use: |
Hedges, screens, windbreaks and
specimens. |
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Laurustinus |
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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. |
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Photinia |
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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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