California Gardening: CA friends...I AM SO SAD!!!!!, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
You might want to consider some large shrubs. They grow faster than trees, and some of them, like the heirloom yellow cestrum, have a nice billowy shape that works well for a privacy screen. The cestrum's branches are too springy for most birds to land on, but smaller birds like it a lot, and the hummers adore it for food.

I don't have a good shot of it, but you can see its maximum height in this photo. The three trees here are a lime, behind it is a pink cestrum, then the yellow cestrum. It's 6 yrs old but got to this height by the 4th yr. Pretty much a carefree shrub, once established it's xeric and evergreen.