California Gardening: Plants for privacy screen around 10 feet tall, 1 by doss

doss wrote:
I'm having the same problem

Here's a site in Alabama that specializes in live bamboo to use as fencing.

http://www.jmbamboo.com/index.htm

Also, I love the new Honeysuckle cultivars that come in such pretty colors.

And there's the always present Camellia

There is a new Hydrangea cultivar "Seamanii" that is evergreen here. It's a native of Mexico and blooms all summer, it says. I've bought some for a fence recently. We'll see where it goes.

http://www.hydrangeasplus.com/customer/search.php?substring=...

My local nursery was interested and bought some for themselves.

I've put some viticella clematis with it to put some more color into it through the season. Chalk Hill Clematis has a whole list of shade tolerant (still 6 hours of sun) clematis. We can push it more here though because it's so warm. The list is about half way down the "nursery" page just before the photos.

http://www.chalkhillclematis.com/farm.html

Abutilon is beautiful but tends to get wide. Hardenbergia is a beautiful vine - sort of slow growing but it has really beautiful flowers in December. Prone to spider mites however. I've cut it back here and let it flop, but you can tie it up.

Passionflower can take some shade, and also Mexican Scarlet Trumpet Vine which can take over but sometimes you want that. I prune my vines at the beginning of each month in the growing season so that they don't get out of hand.

http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/49881/index.html

or Mme Galen

http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57002/

But don't plant the generic Campsis Radicans. It is very invasive and puts out runners like bamboo and it eats into whatever it climbing. They are still trying to get it off the Southern California freeways.


Do you have a photo of your fence?