Privacy Trees
Privacy trees are an attractive option for blocking views and do a better job of blocking noise than wooden fences.
Learn: How to get the fastest privacy screen with a staggered landscape plan.
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What are the Best Trees for Privacy?
The best privacy trees will offer a fast rate of growth. Look for features like disease and deer resistance, drought tolerance, and low maintenance. The most popular privacy trees are Leyland Cypress, Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae, and Italian Cypress but there are many more options to choose from that may be better suited to your region or your yard.
What You Need to Know About Our Privacy Trees
Watch this video for information on our most popular privacy trees including Thuja Green Giant, Emerald Green Arborvitae, Nellie Stevens Holly, Leyland Cypress, Wax Myrtle, and Blue Point Juniper. We share tips on care, spacing, and getting the fastest privacy as well as information on growing zones, growth rate, and more .
What are the Fastest Growing Trees for Privacy?
With growth rates from 3 to 5 feet per year these trees give you privacy fast!
For more information on the fast growing privacy trees check out this fastest growing privacy trees blog post.
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Privacy Trees Planting Set-Ups
For instant privacy, pick out larger privacy trees and hedges. Be sure to stagger your trees by planting 2 rows. For something like Thuja Green Giant or Leyland Cypress plan for about 6 to 8 feet between trees on the diagonal. This will leave you with about 6 to 10 feet of space between each tree within the rows and the rows will be approximately 4 to 6 feet apart.
Privacy Trees and Bushes By Mature Size
Small Trees (6-8 feet)
- Blue Wonder Spruce (zones 3-8)
- Heavenly Bamboo Nandina (zones 6-10)
- Howardi Ligustrum (zones 7-10)
- Japanese Plum Yew (zones 6-9)
- Mugo Pine (zones 3-7)
- Sky Pencil Holly (zones 5-9)
- Steeds Holly (zones 5-9)
Medium Trees (10-20 feet)
- American Boxwood (zones 5-9)
- Blue Point Juniper (zones 4-9)
- Emerald Green Arborvitae (zones 3-8)
- Oakland Holly (zones 6-9)
- Wax Myrtle (zones 7-10)
- Wavy Leaf Ligustrum (zones 7-10)
Large Trees (over 20 feet)
- Thuja Green Giant (zones 5-9)
- Deodar Cedar (zones 7-9)
- Colorado Blue Spruce (zones 3-7)
- Cryptomeria Radicans (zones 5-9)
- Italian Cypress (zones 5-9)
- Leyland Cypress (zones 6-10)
- Lombardy Poplar Tree (zones 3-9)
- Nellie Stevens Holly (zones 6-9)
- Carolina Sapphire Cypress (zones 6-9)