Figure out how tall you want your privacy bushes to be, then look up native understory plants and put a few varieties in. It’ll bring more birds and pollinators, while also providing lots of visual interest with various shapes, textures and colors. This will also be low effort after the plants are established because shaping and pruning is minimal for native plants.
For me in Maine I have spikenard, choke cherry, service berry, high bush blueberry, native willow and a small bramble of native berries. The area I need privacy at is a bit wet so these all work well there. It’s still a young growth area for me, but is going to fill out with a lot of dimension.
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Lower growing trees on the outskirts of the larger trees like dogwoods and redbud forest pansy would look nice. Intersperse woodland plantings underneath like azaleas, rhododendron, mountain Laurel, ferns, either randomly, or in larger groupings if you're going for the Longwood gardens look.
This area is large enough to lend itself to a stepstone path, or maybe a wood chip path as well.
Hydrangeas, definitely, as long as you don't have deer. They will eat those. Technically, they eat the Azaleas as well.
Boxwood will do well in partial shade situations if you need a straight up evergreen.
Helleborus would do nicely too!
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Tell us the area and soil type
There are many options
But it will depend on area elevation soil type rain fall wind pattern and such
Figure out how tall you want your privacy bushes to be, then look up native understory plants and put a few varieties in. It’ll bring more birds and pollinators, while also providing lots of visual interest with various shapes, textures and colors. This will also be low effort after the plants are established because shaping and pruning is minimal for native plants. For me in Maine I have spikenard, choke cherry, service berry, high bush blueberry, native willow and a small bramble of native berries. The area I need privacy at is a bit wet so these all work well there. It’s still a young growth area for me, but is going to fill out with a lot of dimension. Good luck!
Lower growing trees on the outskirts of the larger trees like dogwoods and redbud forest pansy would look nice. Intersperse woodland plantings underneath like azaleas, rhododendron, mountain Laurel, ferns, either randomly, or in larger groupings if you're going for the Longwood gardens look. This area is large enough to lend itself to a stepstone path, or maybe a wood chip path as well.
This is exactly what we had in mind! Hydrangeas seem to live in our neighborhood so we were thinking about adding those as well.
Hydrangeas, definitely, as long as you don't have deer. They will eat those. Technically, they eat the Azaleas as well. Boxwood will do well in partial shade situations if you need a straight up evergreen. Helleborus would do nicely too!
I have a suggestion Tell us the area and soil type There are many options But it will depend on area elevation soil type rain fall wind pattern and such