Plant Finder

Hedge

In a landscape, hedges are most commonly used to define a border, create privacy or block unwanted views. Whether formal or informal, sizes can range from just a couple of feet to tree size hedges used to block out the neighbors second story window.

Types of Hedge

Shiny Xylosma

Shiny Xylosma

Xylosma congestum

An attractive shrub that is an excellent choice if you want to break up long fence lines and use it as a privacy hedge or windbreak.

Japanese Boxwood

Japanese Boxwood

Buxus microphylla japonica

This hardy, attractive evergreen is an excellent option if looking to add a small to medium formal hedge for use as a barrier or along walkways and driveways.

Japanese Privet

Japanese Privet

Ligustrum japonica

A fast growing evergreen excellent for use as a privacy hedge, tall screen or windbreak. Use it as a living wall and create a private backyard oasis!

Juniperus

Juniperus

Juniper

Few plants can match the many forms and uses of this heat and cold tolerant plant. Topiary Junipers can add artistic flair to any landscape!

Oleander

Oleander

Nerium oleander

We love to plant them as a fast growing privacy hedge. Also adds wonderful color to any landscape! Heat, wind, air pollution, drought and salt tolerant once established

Dwarf Oleander

Dwarf Oleander

Nerium oleander

Dwarf Oleander is a beautiful, popular choice for large hedges with a lower profile that’s great for privacy, and for adding a splash of vibrant color into landscapes.

Dwarf Myrtle

Dwarf Myrtle

Myrtus communis ‘Compacta’

A popular, compact evergreen shrub valued for its use as a low to medium hedge and foundation. Ideal for porches, patios, and border lines!

Pyracantha Graber's Firethorn

Pyracantha Graber's Firethorn

Pyracantha graberi

A robust, upright grower valued for its showy clusters of large red berries and its ability to add a quick privacy hedge, wide screen or windbreak.

Bamboo 'Gulf Stream Heavenly'

Bamboo 'Gulf Stream Heavenly'

Nandina domestica 'Gulf Stream'

A tough, very hardy compact evergreen shrub. Great for fine informal hedge, foundation planting and mixed borders. Vibrant, ever-changing foliage adds to its year-round interest.

Heavenly Bamboo

Heavenly Bamboo

Nandina domestica

Heavenly Bamboo is often used to create a colorful landscape that intensifies as the colors change! A versatile plant ideal for privacy hedge, border and mass planting.

Mock Orange

Mock Orange

Pittosporum tobira

A medium to large hardy evergreen shrub that is an excellent choice for uses as a dense privacy screen. Can produce abundant fragrant white flowers in the spring.

Red-Tip Photinia

Red-Tip Photinia

Photinia x fraseri

Red-Tip Photinia works well as a medium-sized evergreen shrub for privacy hedges or screens and looks great sheared or natural! Good low maintenance windbreak too.

Yaupon Holly Stokes

Yaupon Holly Stokes

Ilex vomitoria 'Stokes'

One of the best small evergreen shrubs useful for planting along foundations and fence lines. A tough little shrub that is a good topiary plant or border plant.

Giant Timber Bamboo

Giant Timber Bamboo

Bambusa oldhamii

One of the best clumping bamboo you can find to add a large, dense privacy hedge to screen against unwanted views and create a private backyard retreat!

Twisted Myrtle

Twisted Myrtle

Myrtus communis ‘Boetica’

We love to plant them for their dark green foliage and twisting branch structure that complements a wide range of architectural structures. Excellent privacy hedge with aromatic leaves.

Wax Leaf Privet

Wax Leaf Privet

Ligustrum japonicum 'Texanum'

Popular choice for its many landscape uses, especially because it’s so adaptable to topiary forms! It’s an elegant addition to flank walkways, entryways, and a great privacy hedge.

Boxleaf Euonymus

Boxleaf Euonymus

Euonymus japonicus ‘Microphyllus’

Boxleaf Euonymous is an ideal compact plant with deep green, dense foliage that’s perfect for use as low hedge or border. Retains its good looks all year long!

Green Spire Euonymus

Green Spire Euonymus

Euonymus japonicus 'Green Spire'

A well-behaved plant with a narrow growth habit that makes it ideal for small spaces. If you need the height, but can’t sacrifice the space, plant this shrub!

Green Hopseed

Green Hopseed

Dodonea viscosa

Large, sun loving, drought tolerant bush often used as a screen or filler plant. Plant them in groupings to provide a great windbreak or privacy hedge.

Arizona Yellowbells

Arizona Yellowbells

Tecoma stans

Arizona Yellowbells feature big clusters of long, trumpet-shaped yellow flowers that can make any landscape pop with vibrant color! Good for boundary planting, big shrub border and screening.

Variegated Euonymus

Variegated Euonymus

Euonymous japonica ‘Aureo-Variegata’

Euonymous japonica ‘Aureo-Variegata’ varieties are excellent medium to large shrubs that are a good choice for adding a colorful privacy hedge or screen to any landscape.

Orange Jubilee

Orange Jubilee

Tecoma alata

A large, fast-growing shrub noted for its abundant cluster of orange trumpet blooms. Great choice for use as screens, privacy hedges, along walls and borders.

Purple Hopseed

Purple Hopseed

Dodonaea viscosa ‘Purpurea’

Colorful foliage makes this a popular choice in Southern California for use in borders, hedge, and espalier, urban gardens, as a windbreak, and to block out unwanted views!