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- From: djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.j.daulton)
- Subject: Re: Plant recommendations
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.155644.15666@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: Privacy
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:56:44 GMT
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- Regarding the request for privacy planting, how about a mixed border
- of different shrubs and small trees?
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- One advantage to this is you can shop various nurseries in the fall
- when prices are often cut by half, and pick up what's available,
- including: witch hazel (for both sunny and shady areas), hollies,
- oak leaf hydrangea (often nice fall color), hemlock (tree, but nice
- screen), and almost any type viburnum. And, instead of planting
- everything single file, you can stagger plantings, in two or more
- undisciplined rows, giving depth and more privacy.
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- If you did want to go with one species, you might try European
- beech, which can be pruned into a hedge, and if pruned, does not
- drop its leaves until spring.
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- European hornbean is also nice, but best of all is American
- hornbean (nice fall color), but it is very hard to find.
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- Dave Daulton, Columbus, Ohio
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