Tolerates a range of soils but prefers moist well drained loams.
Narrow bamboo privacy hedge.
Or with some basic carpentry skills you can build a long narrow planter just the right size for your hedge.
Seabreeze bamboo is a hardy sub tropical variety and the best choice for coastal areas and can also survive in cool climates and winds.
Some varieties of bamboo are invasive so choose a slow spreading clumping.
For a more gradual hedge plant 10 to 12 feet apart.
It also offers the benefit of doing the job very quickly since no other hedgerow plant grows as quickly as bamboo.
Variety selection before purchasing a bamboo plant you need to make sure you have selected a variety that will work for you.
On the other hand informal fast growing evergreen bushes or shrubs for privacy only need low maintenance care year round.
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.
A bamboo privacy hedge can form just such a mass because its canes grow together so densely by nature.
Formal privacy hedge trees need to be sheared and shaped every year to look neat and tidy and to form a perfect hedge.
It forms an umbrella shape and grows up to 30 40 feet tall making a tight hedge rapidly.
These fast growers can reach a height of 60 feet and a spread of 20 feet.
And because the plants grow so densely bamboo is almost as good as a solid fence as a privacy screen.
Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants in the world so it can create a lush and exotic privacy screen very quickly.
Slim will grow to 3m tall with a spread of 1 3m and can even be pruned to a minimum width of just 60cm.
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.
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.
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.
Full to partial sun.
For a quick hedge or windbreak plant these plants 5 to 6 feet apart.