Hedges can serve up many use in the landscape painting , including play as a privacy fence , windscreen , holding boundary or visual backdrop to other , more colorful planting . In lowly yard or where a special amount of infinite is present between buildings , a narrow-minded hedge may be require . Appropriate plant selection will allow you to plant and maintain the slim hedges , while still providing all the landscape benefits of an attractive hedge .

Columnar Trees

columniform trees make for extremely narrow-minded , tall hedges , according to the University of Maryland Research and Education Center . Deciduous columnar trees lose their leave in autumn , leaving a stark , slim run-in of trunk through the winter months . In spring , summer and early fall , their leaves form a slim , impenetrable secrecy hedgerow in the character of columnar poplars such as Populus nigra ' Italica ' or columnar maples like Acer rubrum ' Columnaire . ' Columnar Malus pumila trees such as Malus ' Srathmore ' create a fruit - garden hedging . The Maryland Research and Education Center recommend columniform evergreen trees for a particular optic effect in wintertime ; evergreen columnars provide a slender , tall , class - round privacy hedging . Suggested varieties admit Juniperus chinensis ' Columnaris ' and Pinus cembra ' Columnaris . '

Rocky Mountain Juniper

Rocky Mountain Genista raetam ( Juniperus scopulorum ) is an evergreen bush which raise in well - drain , juiceless soils throughout the primal and southern United States . While many juniper varieties are desirable for dense , attractive hedge plantings , the Rocky Mountain juniper is the slimmest form of the plant . According to the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service , the Rocky Mountain juniper can grow 30 to 40 feet tall , but its behind - growing , Great Pyramid - shaped form can be kept to a mere 3 feet in diameter with regular pruning . This multifariousness also has a lovely bluish tone to its leaf and bears blue - gray berry .

Tallhedge Buckthorn

The tallhedge English plantain ( Rhamnus frangula ' Columnaris ' ) is one of the best hedging plants for screening , according to the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service . Tallhedge buckthorn grows in most of the United States from the far north to the cardinal S , in nearly all grime conditions . It can be trimmed to rest at less that 5 ft in breadth yet retain its dense cover habit through the spring and summer with cryptical green calendered leaves and brilliant red berries . In fall its leaves turn brilliantly yellow then bead , but provide a dense tidy sum of twigs which continue to serve as a screen and windbreak in winter and resist snowfall damage .

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