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.
Narrow bamboo privacy hedge. Tolerates a range of soils but prefers moist well drained loams. It also offers the benefit of doing the job very quickly since no other hedgerow plant grows as quickly as bamboo. But don t think that pots and boxes will solve all your problems. Seabreeze bamboo is a hardy sub tropical variety and the best choice for coastal areas and can also survive in cool climates and winds.
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. Slim will grow to 3m tall with a spread of 1 3m and can even be pruned to a minimum width of just 60cm. The timber bamboo grows dense very fast and does an outstanding job working as a privacy hedge. Some varieties of bamboo are invasive so choose a slow spreading clumping.
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. These fast growers can reach a height of 60 feet and a spread of 20 feet. For a quick hedge or windbreak plant these plants 5 to 6 feet apart.
Like most bamboos chusquea culeou forms an excellent privacy hedge when planted in a row. On the other hand informal fast growing evergreen bushes or shrubs for privacy only need low maintenance care year round. Formal privacy hedge trees need to be sheared and shaped every year to look neat and tidy and to form a perfect hedge. A bamboo privacy hedge can form just such a mass because its canes grow together so densely by nature.
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. It forms an umbrella shape and grows up to 30 40 feet tall making a tight hedge rapidly. Variety selection before purchasing a bamboo plant you need to make sure you have selected a variety that will work for you. 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.