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What are the mix if plants used for the privacy hedge?

10 years ago

I love the variety of plants used for the screen. What are the evergreen plants used? Looks like laurel and a type of juniper, along with others.

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Aardweg Landscaping
10 years ago
It's been years since we did that and the image is not real clear to me, but here's my guess left to right:
Cupressocyprus leylandii [really ultimately too large for that area, but they wanted instant gratification and we prune it regularly],Prunus l. schipkaensis, 2 juniperus scopulorum , maybe a large Azalea we had in our holding area. My spelling on these is dubious, but should help. We also frequently use Hollies [Ilex meservaes] and the always reliable/affordable/yet pretty boring Arborvitae for mixed evergreen backgrounds.
Hope that helps!
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