Great Evergreens for Screens and Hedges

Nellie Stevens Holly

Need some privacy? Want to screen the view into your neighbor’s yard? Consider planting a living fence of evergreen shrubs, but look beyond the common disease plagued Leyland Cypress! Local garden centers carry many different evergreens suitable for screening --- and fall is the perfect time to plant! 

Find out which variety would be the best for your yard - read the rest of the article here on the Pender Extension website,  http://pender.ces.ncsu.edu/index.php?page=news&ci=LAWN+151.

For recommendations of trees and shrubs that thrive in our area see the recommended plants fact sheets available on the Pender County Cooperative Extension website, http://pender.ces.ncsu.edu/index.php?page=lawngarden (scroll down to the section titled ‘Recommended Plants’).

For more plant advice, try these Extension resources:

• The NCSU Urban Horticulture website has fact sheets for 100’s of plants! Find them here: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/
• Clemson Extension has many fact sheets on great plants for our area, as well as how to plant and care them! Find them here: http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/landscape/ .