Is your backyard a fishbowl? There are skinny trees out there but they are expensive. And many o them get way too big. Hedges are the answer. And screening is just one of the uses of a hedge.
Hedges come in all sizes from little ones you look over to big ones you look UP at.
Start your learning here: https://sherwoods-forests.com/Ideas/Hedges.html
- Green Alder
- Paper Birch
- Canada Buffaloberry
- Silver Buffaloberry
- Common Caragana
- Peking Cotoneaster
- Golden Currant
- Red Osier Dogwood
- Common (French) Lilac
- Late (Villosa) Lilac
- Amur Maple
- Boyne Raspberry
- Wild Rose
- Wild Saskatoon
- High Bush Cranberry
- Willow - Common Osier, Black Maul, Belgian Red, Flame, Pussywillow.
- Wolf Willow
You want a hedge, but the wallet is saying, "I'm flat"
I've got hedge seedlings. These are 2 year old seedlings, 12-18 inches tall, 24-30 if you count the roots too. They come in bundles of 25.
Plants are 3.25 each . That's including the GST. Bundles are 10 trees per bundle for plugs, and 25 trees per bundle for bare root.
Shipping: Flat rate or free. $25 for orders under $150. Free for orders over $150
Types:
- Cotoneaster (Ka Tone Ee Aster) Thats a pair of the seedlings in the first picture. And in the 3rd is it's show of fall colour.
Cotoneaster can be used for formal clipped hedges -- plan on 1 plant every 18" to 24". Or you can do a informal line with shrubs just touching -- 1 every four feet. Or you can do the dotted line approach so you can mow between them -- 1 every six feet.
Cotoneaster get about 7 feet tall left to their own devices. Flowers are inconspicuous in spring, followed by hoards of small black berries in fall. The berries don't taste good to us, but birds like them a lot.
Fall foliage is a mix of bright reds and oranges. Sometimes one branch will decide to go red early.
- Lilacs I have both the common french lilac and the late lilac. Picture 2 is a mix of late lilacs and cotoneaster. Toward the end is a pic of Common lilac and a swallowtail butterfly. -- SOLD OUT for 2019
Lilacs get 8-12 feet tall, and have lots of lavender flowers in early to mid spring. (Late Lilac is about 3 weeks after common lilac. They are drought resistant, and require little attention. They will get bushier with yearly pruning.
- Amur Maple can be grown into a small tree, or a low shrub. BRIGHT red fall colour.
Amur maple is an easily shaped hedge plant Shear the top, and it grows lots of stems and grows wide. Take off the side branches, and it becomes a small tree. By natural form it likes to be about 4-8 stems about 6 feet tall.
- Common dogwood grows about 5-6 feet tall if unpruned. Zero care once established. Native too.
If you prune dogwood, or let the deer do it, it will remain shorter and bushier. The 6 foot tall version is rather open.
- Wolf willow gives you a silver grey colour to work with. SEEDLINGS SOLD OUT 2019
Wolf willow gets 4 to 8 feet tall. Left to itself, it gets rather ratty looking with leaves in the top foot, and dead looking twigs underneath. Prune hard in late fall or spring.
- Flame willow. Bright yellow and orange twigs on last summer's growth all winter long. Cuttings only by mail. No plugs. We have other willows too.
Left on it's own it will get 15 feet tall, but you can prune it to any height.
- Caragana. Bright yellow flowers in spring.
Caragana gets about 6-10 feet tall, but is easily pruned to whatever height you wish. If it gets out of hand, give it a 'chain saw haircut' just above the ground, and you can start over.
More Hedge seedlings here:
http://sherwoods-forests.com/Ordering/Seedlings.html
Shipping ranges from $25 to $40 depending on size of order. Better for trees and wallet if you pick up.
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Website: http://sherwoods-forests.com
50042 Range Road 31
Warburg, Alberta
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Hours: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. 7 days a week, but ...
You *MUST* make an appointment before you come out. There's 3.5 million square feet of back yard. If you arrive without an appointment, phone the numbers above. If all else fails, ask the cat. Warning: The cat has a thick accent and is not always truthful.
Warning: Many car GPS's will show us in Warburg. Google maps gets it right. We are 1 mile east and half a mile north of St. Francis, AB. Full directions to get here on our website on the Contact page.
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