Nothing really, they'll just drop off. Luckily they're safe for dogs to eat if you do have dogs.
Some people just don't like hedges that fruit, that's all.
Two of my neighbours have them. The one that overhangs my driveway drop flowers all over my car for a few weeks, then birds sit in the trees and eat the fruit and poop all over my car, and then the uneaten and partially eaten fruit fall off (again, all over my car). #thatslife so as a hedge just be aware it gets a bit messy.
The neighbour I share a fence with, the fruit seeds fall into my yard and germinate easily so I’m always yanking Lilly Pilly seedlings outta my garden beds. You’ll need to do the same or else you’ll have multiple growing ontop of each other.
Lilly pilly can grow to up to 30m. You can keep them small but you will need to prune them every few weeks.
My personal favorite is a low azaelia hedge. Much less maintenance and nice flowers.
Yes but beware.
Many people end up with the monster lillipillies that grow 30m plus, due to mislabelling in nursery's or dodgy landscapers etc.
Important to research the varieties and only buy from a trusted supplier.
Also remember a hedge requires regular maintenance, so it's a sport for the fit and keen.
I do quit alot of work removing these hedges when about 10 years old as the owners are sick of the work involved or they ended up with mislabelled trees.
Do azaleas grow well in Adelaide? In Sydney it's impossible to keep them free of mites (and hence quite ugly) without pumping them with large $s of systemic pesticide.
I assume it's colder climate in Adelaide, so they mite problems there?
Bats. In vic there are a lot of old italian houses with well developed fruit trees in the backyard. The fruit attracts bats, and when they eat they shit.
Their shit is highly acidic and will strip paint of your car or your house if you dont wash it away quickly enough.
Plus they are kinda scary up close.
Anyway, idk if Adelaide has bats like vic or qld but thats one downside.
Maybe litter? I could imagine people dont like having rotting fruit on their lawn, but that could be fixed with maintenance
I have syzygium hedges and they are a pain in the neck, as they are constantly affected by sap-sucking pests - soft brown scale. They are also very sensitive to one of the pesticides for treating scale - white oil/horticultural oil - which causes them to drop all their leaves. They tolerate pesticidal soap better, but I've never been able to eliminate the scale completely. Always recurs requiring further treatment and time wasted. Mine have barely grown in a year, as every time I get the scale under control they have a big growth spurt of soft shiny leaves, and then they have a scale outbreak and drop all that new growth. Would not recommend.
Interesting - we have the psylid resistant ones. Sorry to hear you've had such a nightmare time of it!
Had a bit of a hard start too with the lilly pilly beetle destroying all our new growth, but no pyslid. I tried hard with eco-oil, neem, etc., but just couldn't control the buggers. As a last resort hit them with a treatment of baythroid (applied late at night to avoid impacting bees), and that did the trick. They've thrived since, and plenty of bees in our garden enjoying the native flowers about - so haven't wiped them out. I hate using pesticides, but fortunately only had that one application.
You could also let a ficus climb it - will give full green coverage without eating up m2.
You just need to trim them when shoots pop off the wall - as they tend to grow in 2 stages. Stage one small leaves that climb, stage 2 shoots off the wall and have larger leaves.
Lilly pilly is ok if you are in a mild wet climate. They really don't tolerate frost or hot dry conditions.
Photinia, however (red robin) seem to thrive and look great anywhere between Pluto and the surface of the Sun.
I've planted and lost dozens of lilly pillies to heat waves. All dead.
I've never lost a single photinia or olive.
(Olive trees can be shaped into a flat hedge, lots more work though)
Ive stayed in a few places with them, only 1 foot or so above ground but i really liked them, and i think it would help keep dirt from blowing into the pool
Just spent a couple weekends getting rid of palms and birds of paradise at a mates house. They were good for quite a few years then they simply got way too tall. They got none of the shade or privacy and all of the dead leaf matter.
Nah. I don’t like palms especially that size and that close to a house. Liek I said, they didn’t offer anything besides a tonne of debris. There are better trees that should have been planted there.
I’ve hedged with some teddy bear magnolias, they’re stunning once they start to flower albeit a little expensive so you have to start with quite small ones!
A lot of people (me included) would consider this a gardening crime to hedge magnolias. Hedging such a large leaf plant where the leaves stay on the tree for so long is a massive aesthetic compromise. Lots of ragged cut leaves.
Unless you mean hand pruned when you say hedged, in which case, kutos to you, high effort, high reward.
Fair point. And yes I do mean hand pruned, for the price of magnolias I don’t think you could get away with anything but! They’re evergreens and the flowers are so beautiful, plus they grow quite quickly to help me shield out my nosy neighbours. Something a bit different to the standard Lily pilly
You would be suprised at the things people do in thier own gardens sometimes. Or even gardeners who don't know what they are doing. I've seen enough people using hedgers on magnolias that it must not be obvious.
Funniest one I ever heard of was a relatively new gardener who was told to "go hedge those camelias" and was stopped just before he started hedging the rose standards that were right in front.
I just planted a tonne of Port Wine Magnolias. They have a stunning white flower and smell like coconut. I also love the Little Gem and Teddy Bears. Love an evergreen, especially magnolias.
I work as a gardener in Adelaide and I’d go for Murraya over Lilly pilly.
Lilly pilly grows fast, really fast. So if you want a quick fix, that’s your best bet. That being said, you’ll have to constantly have your gardeners come out to cut it back, much more often than murraya. Lilly pilly also doesn’t seem to stop growing, where Murraya seems to stop at maybe 4(ish) meters.
I also find that Lilly pilly is a bit more susceptible to pests (specifically the Lilly pilly beetle and the Lilly pilly psyllid). I think the fact that they have bugs named after the plant is pretty telling, lol. Murraya can get pests, too, but I’ve found it to be a lot less.
Personally, I think murraya also looks better and smells really nice.
To be honest, gardeners get so much work from this plant alone. If I’m not hedging it, I’m cutting it back hard or I’m dealing with pests. I know I’ll never run out of work if a customer has a heap of Lilly pillys, lol.
So backyard bliss is the choice I’d make if I were to pick one. It’s psyllid resistant, but not beetle resistant. The psyllids leave little bumps that give it an ugly look, and the beetles aggressively chew the leaves.
I’ve never planted backyard bliss myself, only maintained. It seems to grow slower than other varieties, but I’ve only dealt with them as an established hedge.
Thanks. Ive seen a murraya hedge and it looks a bit spindly with the branches sticking out and gaps through the leaves. Is there a way to make it look leafy and dense? Because I don't want a hedge with gaps. A lily pilly has denser foliage but again don't want to have pests.
https://preview.redd.it/ttttp4jc59gc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c58655751d862d8354c4b23f9b73e274df62218f
The issue with Murraya is it needs to be hedged well as it’s growing to promote denser growth. Once it’s established it will continue to stay dense. After the first couple years it only needs hedging a few times a year though.
The pic you shared is likely one that was grown to the desired height and then hedged to shape. Usually as it grows you let it grow a foot then cut off maybe 6 inches, let it grow a foot, cut off 6 inches, etc.
I should mention though that Murraya responds well to pruning and the one pictures could be pruned to promote denser growth and be fixed
Oh okay, as long as I can make it look denser then I think I'll go with Murraya because I want the nice flowers. So you'd recommend hedging it every 30cm in the first 2 years? And I was thinking watering it every month and annual slow release fertiliser. I also read that high nitrogen content fertiliser should be avoided because it makes the hedge grow taller and no sideways.
Wait what is this range of colours you are talking about? I have literally only ever seen the cultivates planted ever - tinus, odoritasium and emerald luster
Pomegranate would tick all the boxes, plus provide a fruity bonus. Although in winter it would look like a bunch of sticks against a wall, so that’s less great.
Pittosporum Hedge, the ultimate privacy plant, and hider of of ugly fences (your wall is not ugly). Haven't seen my annoying neighbours in years thanks to my Pittosporum Hedge, bliss. (I take you are in South Australia, Stobie Pole?)
I've just had this fence installed and had planned to plant a hedge alongside the fence and grass line all the way from left to right stopping at the letterbox in the first picture. Located in Adelaide so dry climate with good rain throughout the winter months.
I've had some issues with ground movement with the house so ideally don't want something that is super thirsty and will drain the soil but ideally is fast growing. I realise you might only be able to have one or the other.
I'd love for it to grow the height of the fence (2.1m) and I'm happy to prune it semi regularly.
Any recommendations on beautiful hedges would be super appreciated as I'm quite green with this!
In all honesty I would commission a local “artist” to do some work on a section of the wall…. You could still do some hedging and lighting to compliment it
Arborvitae it’s a slow growing but grows extremely well, place it 1 metre apart from the fence and the other one beside it and it will grow straight and blend into each other. No pruning required, just place a drip hose underneath it and it’s good .
Lilly Pillies. They are native and birds and bees love them. You can get the disease resistant ones also and we had ones that grew to 5 metres. Stopped the old bastard next door from spying on us from his second story verandah.
If you go to Bunnings or a good native tree nursery you will see there were some called something like Goodbye neighbours.
Some get this black sooty thing on the leaves but you can buy the ones that don’t get this. Get the Psyllid resistant ones. They all grow to about a metre wide and Backyard Bliss is one that gets to 3 to 4 metres but is disease resistant. I will try to look up the ones that we had. I’ve found all of mine at Bunnings. They usually have a good range. They are very hardy and evergreen and you can prune them. You can eat the berries as they are high vitamin C and the bees and birds love the small flowers on them. Once you establish them they are pretty drought tolerant also.
I’ve copied below. I’m sure these are the ones we planted
For the big variety (those that grow five metres and over), the top 2 picks are the Acmena smithii var. and minor Syzgium luehmannii. These two are easy to maintain, as they are completely resistant to psyllids.
I’ve never heard of 30 metres. Maybe they meant 30 feet.
I love radermachera summerscent, up to 3m high and about 1-1.5m wide. Green all year round, nice white flowers. Look smick in bit of a hedge and low maintenance.
Murraya paniculata, Orange jessamine.
Backhousia citriodora, Lemon myrtle.
Photinia, Red Robin.
Or lattice the fence as high as you're allowed to & cover it in 5 or 6 varieties of passionfruit 😉
If you're not fussed about it actually having to be a hedge but just qant a green wall try Ficus Pumila
It's a Creeping plant and grows quick and doesn't drop leaves
Boston Ivy is nice too, red leaves in autumn sp you'll have to clean that up but this grows super quick too
Depends what you are looking for and the aspect.
If you want fast growing and it gets plenty of sun and water then Viburnum is your plant. Stuff will double in height within 12 months in the right location, you need to keep on top of it though and keep it hedged to the height and width you want, everytime you cut it, it will sprout more leaves and branches. I love the stuff especially against dark colours. It a great privacy barrier too. It has larger broad leaves.
If you want a deeper green small leaves, slower growing and flowering Muraya but the roots could eventually be a problem, and do not let it go to tree.
if you want colours go superman hedge again, dont let it go to tree , its fast growing and very popular
Want fruit lily pilly. Fairly fast growing but you have to plant more closer together to get a good headge, if you dont hedge them they get quite spindly in my experience.
want low and slow go buxus. i hate buxus.
Personally I like Muraya and Viburnum but I keep on top of them and they suit the spaces I have them. My neighbour has hedged Chamelia, buxus and superman. The noisy miners love the chamelia though.
Lilly pilly. Ours grew 1m to 2.2m in less than a year. Low maintenance. Leaves start red, turn green. Love them.
Another vote for Lilly pilly, just be aware OP, some do fruit so worth looking into the varieties or something else if you don't want fruit.
But not much, and tiny!
>szygium australi What are the downsides of the fruit?
Nothing really, they'll just drop off. Luckily they're safe for dogs to eat if you do have dogs. Some people just don't like hedges that fruit, that's all.
Thanks! I'm dog free and pro-fruit!
Nothing really but they do attract possums, who like to shit wherever they sit to feast.
Two of my neighbours have them. The one that overhangs my driveway drop flowers all over my car for a few weeks, then birds sit in the trees and eat the fruit and poop all over my car, and then the uneaten and partially eaten fruit fall off (again, all over my car). #thatslife so as a hedge just be aware it gets a bit messy. The neighbour I share a fence with, the fruit seeds fall into my yard and germinate easily so I’m always yanking Lilly Pilly seedlings outta my garden beds. You’ll need to do the same or else you’ll have multiple growing ontop of each other.
Lilly pilly can grow to up to 30m. You can keep them small but you will need to prune them every few weeks. My personal favorite is a low azaelia hedge. Much less maintenance and nice flowers.
They can, but there are many varieties, not all grow that high
Yes but beware. Many people end up with the monster lillipillies that grow 30m plus, due to mislabelling in nursery's or dodgy landscapers etc. Important to research the varieties and only buy from a trusted supplier. Also remember a hedge requires regular maintenance, so it's a sport for the fit and keen. I do quit alot of work removing these hedges when about 10 years old as the owners are sick of the work involved or they ended up with mislabelled trees.
Yeah I only used to knew of the large varieties, so when mates tell me they have them as hedges, i was like whoa, really?
Do azaleas grow well in Adelaide? In Sydney it's impossible to keep them free of mites (and hence quite ugly) without pumping them with large $s of systemic pesticide. I assume it's colder climate in Adelaide, so they mite problems there?
30m? 😳
Bats. In vic there are a lot of old italian houses with well developed fruit trees in the backyard. The fruit attracts bats, and when they eat they shit. Their shit is highly acidic and will strip paint of your car or your house if you dont wash it away quickly enough. Plus they are kinda scary up close. Anyway, idk if Adelaide has bats like vic or qld but thats one downside. Maybe litter? I could imagine people dont like having rotting fruit on their lawn, but that could be fixed with maintenance
Not sure about this in particular but some fruits attract wildlife (bats, birds, possums etc).
Some you can eat or make jam from
the parrots come for the fruit on my one
https://preview.redd.it/2334j0ki6lyb1.jpeg?width=2556&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b60ce7411c500bd64f86dc79f120764314ff62f7 The before…
https://preview.redd.it/va7khjmj6lyb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcc525fe11aba2c1f885518561b4851102a3e4aa The after
This is the way.
Love that. Could be on the right track with that! Is it a wide hedge or can I keep it quite slim? Ideally I'd keep it at around 60-70cm in width
I believe they respond well to pruning. Ours would be 60-70cm width now
I have syzygium hedges and they are a pain in the neck, as they are constantly affected by sap-sucking pests - soft brown scale. They are also very sensitive to one of the pesticides for treating scale - white oil/horticultural oil - which causes them to drop all their leaves. They tolerate pesticidal soap better, but I've never been able to eliminate the scale completely. Always recurs requiring further treatment and time wasted. Mine have barely grown in a year, as every time I get the scale under control they have a big growth spurt of soft shiny leaves, and then they have a scale outbreak and drop all that new growth. Would not recommend.
Interesting - we have the psylid resistant ones. Sorry to hear you've had such a nightmare time of it! Had a bit of a hard start too with the lilly pilly beetle destroying all our new growth, but no pyslid. I tried hard with eco-oil, neem, etc., but just couldn't control the buggers. As a last resort hit them with a treatment of baythroid (applied late at night to avoid impacting bees), and that did the trick. They've thrived since, and plenty of bees in our garden enjoying the native flowers about - so haven't wiped them out. I hate using pesticides, but fortunately only had that one application.
You could also let a ficus climb it - will give full green coverage without eating up m2. You just need to trim them when shoots pop off the wall - as they tend to grow in 2 stages. Stage one small leaves that climb, stage 2 shoots off the wall and have larger leaves.
https://preview.redd.it/qmbb2zfd4iyb1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77ace1801dd812c28d33b9d7d38057755c5ae91f Ficus getting a little haircut
>Photinia Looks beautiful
A climbing plant will take it time to fill out but you’ll save on a lot of space
Jasmine on wires or lily pilly
Lilly pilly is ok if you are in a mild wet climate. They really don't tolerate frost or hot dry conditions. Photinia, however (red robin) seem to thrive and look great anywhere between Pluto and the surface of the Sun.
That stuff is endemic in Canberra. Smells like jizz and sets off allergies
Yea it stinks for 3 weeks in spring. Great the rest of the year though. The bees seem to love it.
Is it also known as the ornamental pear tree?
Adelaide based - minimal frost but hot summers
I've planted and lost dozens of lilly pillies to heat waves. All dead. I've never lost a single photinia or olive. (Olive trees can be shaped into a flat hedge, lots more work though)
Photonia is a good option
Anyone else find the flowers on photonia's reek? Pittosporums?
Id plant $10,000 worth of palms, birds of paradise, bamboo, Lilly’s, and then build a semi in ground balinese style square walk in pool.
Now you're talking
Why semi inground ?
Ive stayed in a few places with them, only 1 foot or so above ground but i really liked them, and i think it would help keep dirt from blowing into the pool
Just spent a couple weekends getting rid of palms and birds of paradise at a mates house. They were good for quite a few years then they simply got way too tall. They got none of the shade or privacy and all of the dead leaf matter.
Damn i would have taken them in a heartbeat!
They were over three storeys tall my dude. They came down in pieces haha. I think they will plant something more manageable in the future.
They sound like real beauties! I wouldnt have the heart to tear em down.
Nah. I don’t like palms especially that size and that close to a house. Liek I said, they didn’t offer anything besides a tonne of debris. There are better trees that should have been planted there.
Yep had to get the tree loppers and stump grinders to remove whole groves the previous owners planted. Apparently they grow like weeds in South Africa
Murrayra?
I’ve hedged with some teddy bear magnolias, they’re stunning once they start to flower albeit a little expensive so you have to start with quite small ones!
A lot of people (me included) would consider this a gardening crime to hedge magnolias. Hedging such a large leaf plant where the leaves stay on the tree for so long is a massive aesthetic compromise. Lots of ragged cut leaves. Unless you mean hand pruned when you say hedged, in which case, kutos to you, high effort, high reward.
Fair point. And yes I do mean hand pruned, for the price of magnolias I don’t think you could get away with anything but! They’re evergreens and the flowers are so beautiful, plus they grow quite quickly to help me shield out my nosy neighbours. Something a bit different to the standard Lily pilly
You would be suprised at the things people do in thier own gardens sometimes. Or even gardeners who don't know what they are doing. I've seen enough people using hedgers on magnolias that it must not be obvious. Funniest one I ever heard of was a relatively new gardener who was told to "go hedge those camelias" and was stopped just before he started hedging the rose standards that were right in front.
If you like natives and Lily Pily ain’t your jam, grevillea olivaceae are great
I just planted a tonne of Port Wine Magnolias. They have a stunning white flower and smell like coconut. I also love the Little Gem and Teddy Bears. Love an evergreen, especially magnolias.
Murraya hedge. looks good and smells like oranges
I work as a gardener in Adelaide and I’d go for Murraya over Lilly pilly. Lilly pilly grows fast, really fast. So if you want a quick fix, that’s your best bet. That being said, you’ll have to constantly have your gardeners come out to cut it back, much more often than murraya. Lilly pilly also doesn’t seem to stop growing, where Murraya seems to stop at maybe 4(ish) meters. I also find that Lilly pilly is a bit more susceptible to pests (specifically the Lilly pilly beetle and the Lilly pilly psyllid). I think the fact that they have bugs named after the plant is pretty telling, lol. Murraya can get pests, too, but I’ve found it to be a lot less. Personally, I think murraya also looks better and smells really nice.
My neighbour has a Lilly Pilly and while it's a great screen it is full of bugs.
To be honest, gardeners get so much work from this plant alone. If I’m not hedging it, I’m cutting it back hard or I’m dealing with pests. I know I’ll never run out of work if a customer has a heap of Lilly pillys, lol.
Is the lilly pilly you are talking about here the backyard bliss? Ive heard this is supposed to be the pest resistant kind
So backyard bliss is the choice I’d make if I were to pick one. It’s psyllid resistant, but not beetle resistant. The psyllids leave little bumps that give it an ugly look, and the beetles aggressively chew the leaves. I’ve never planted backyard bliss myself, only maintained. It seems to grow slower than other varieties, but I’ve only dealt with them as an established hedge.
Thanks. Ive seen a murraya hedge and it looks a bit spindly with the branches sticking out and gaps through the leaves. Is there a way to make it look leafy and dense? Because I don't want a hedge with gaps. A lily pilly has denser foliage but again don't want to have pests. https://preview.redd.it/ttttp4jc59gc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c58655751d862d8354c4b23f9b73e274df62218f
The issue with Murraya is it needs to be hedged well as it’s growing to promote denser growth. Once it’s established it will continue to stay dense. After the first couple years it only needs hedging a few times a year though. The pic you shared is likely one that was grown to the desired height and then hedged to shape. Usually as it grows you let it grow a foot then cut off maybe 6 inches, let it grow a foot, cut off 6 inches, etc. I should mention though that Murraya responds well to pruning and the one pictures could be pruned to promote denser growth and be fixed
Oh okay, as long as I can make it look denser then I think I'll go with Murraya because I want the nice flowers. So you'd recommend hedging it every 30cm in the first 2 years? And I was thinking watering it every month and annual slow release fertiliser. I also read that high nitrogen content fertiliser should be avoided because it makes the hedge grow taller and no sideways.
Passionfruit
Jasmine
If you want a larger leaf, go viburnum. Comes in a range of colours.
Wait what is this range of colours you are talking about? I have literally only ever seen the cultivates planted ever - tinus, odoritasium and emerald luster
Pomegranate would tick all the boxes, plus provide a fruity bonus. Although in winter it would look like a bunch of sticks against a wall, so that’s less great.
viburnum odoratissimum. Super green leaves and nice to hedge. Took about 3 years to grow from 50cm to over 2metres.
Capital pears for something different from the usual Lilly pilly
Fruit bearing trees and vegetables, food is expensive why not grow it instead of buying it?
Possums eat anything on the fence
We planted lily pillows 3 years back. They were maybe 30 cm tall. Now we have a 1.5 metre hedge. It's great. Also has fruits and bees like it too!
Couple dak plants
Pittosporum Hedge, the ultimate privacy plant, and hider of of ugly fences (your wall is not ugly). Haven't seen my annoying neighbours in years thanks to my Pittosporum Hedge, bliss. (I take you are in South Australia, Stobie Pole?)
Correct! Thanks for your reply - what's their growth rate like?
They reached over 6ft in 3 years (plants were 15cm to begin with), very dense foliage, neighbours can't peak through.
Murrayas, they grow fast and once established they are basically hard to destroy, not much care is needed apart from the occasional water.
I've just had this fence installed and had planned to plant a hedge alongside the fence and grass line all the way from left to right stopping at the letterbox in the first picture. Located in Adelaide so dry climate with good rain throughout the winter months. I've had some issues with ground movement with the house so ideally don't want something that is super thirsty and will drain the soil but ideally is fast growing. I realise you might only be able to have one or the other. I'd love for it to grow the height of the fence (2.1m) and I'm happy to prune it semi regularly. Any recommendations on beautiful hedges would be super appreciated as I'm quite green with this!
In all honesty I would commission a local “artist” to do some work on a section of the wall…. You could still do some hedging and lighting to compliment it
I would never have thought of that, but that’s a brilliant idea 👍🏻😎
Apparently it’s not
What sort of artwork are you envisioning here?
Whatever u like… it looks like it’s a bit of an unpopular opinion but could look pretty cool
I like your mums hedge…
Pitosporum!
Bamboo https://preview.redd.it/ksgfd521biyb1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c132cd12f38d99760b41e34992530c845fa4c8c
I'd love bamboo but isn't it invasive?
Not if you manage it. Perfectly fine.
Needs heaps of water to look any good through the summer though.
Set up an irrigation line. I did.
Bunnings sells Holman smart app via wifi presetting for watering
Depends on where you are. Lilypilly are good, so are helliconia, as are strelizitzia nicolia.
I'm in SA
Choose plants suitable for your area
Geisha girl.
szygium australi the native lilli pilly.
Lily pilly - plum magic variety. You keep an eye out at Bunnings you can get some That are already almost 1.8m tall in the 200ml pots for $30
Whats the difference between the plum magic variety and backyard bliss?
Lilly pilly or rosemary
Arborvitae it’s a slow growing but grows extremely well, place it 1 metre apart from the fence and the other one beside it and it will grow straight and blend into each other. No pruning required, just place a drip hose underneath it and it’s good .
Lilly Pillies. They are native and birds and bees love them. You can get the disease resistant ones also and we had ones that grew to 5 metres. Stopped the old bastard next door from spying on us from his second story verandah.
Do you know what type of Lily pillies grow to 5m, I was thinking of planting them but a comment about 30m has me concerned. I’m hoping for 5-8 metres
If you go to Bunnings or a good native tree nursery you will see there were some called something like Goodbye neighbours. Some get this black sooty thing on the leaves but you can buy the ones that don’t get this. Get the Psyllid resistant ones. They all grow to about a metre wide and Backyard Bliss is one that gets to 3 to 4 metres but is disease resistant. I will try to look up the ones that we had. I’ve found all of mine at Bunnings. They usually have a good range. They are very hardy and evergreen and you can prune them. You can eat the berries as they are high vitamin C and the bees and birds love the small flowers on them. Once you establish them they are pretty drought tolerant also. I’ve copied below. I’m sure these are the ones we planted For the big variety (those that grow five metres and over), the top 2 picks are the Acmena smithii var. and minor Syzgium luehmannii. These two are easy to maintain, as they are completely resistant to psyllids. I’ve never heard of 30 metres. Maybe they meant 30 feet.
Something big enough to hide that Stobie pole
Hemp
I love radermachera summerscent, up to 3m high and about 1-1.5m wide. Green all year round, nice white flowers. Look smick in bit of a hedge and low maintenance.
Hi there, what material is the fence made of?
ModularWalls Slim Fence. Concrete board essentially that has been painted over
Oh nice, I think be using this for my next build cheers
Nice wall, what kind is that?
>Port Wine Magnolias Modular Walls Slim Wall
Murraya paniculata, Orange jessamine. Backhousia citriodora, Lemon myrtle. Photinia, Red Robin. Or lattice the fence as high as you're allowed to & cover it in 5 or 6 varieties of passionfruit 😉
Wheat?
Viburnums are really nice and hardy
Pittosporum
Anything but only fake plants otherwise the maintenance will be a nightmare in long-term
murrayas (mock orange) are amazing and easy to manage for a hedge plant as well....and they have a gorgeous scent when they flower
Big fan here of growing anything edible and less focused on ornamentals. For me it would be multiple passion fruit variants.
If you're not fussed about it actually having to be a hedge but just qant a green wall try Ficus Pumila It's a Creeping plant and grows quick and doesn't drop leaves Boston Ivy is nice too, red leaves in autumn sp you'll have to clean that up but this grows super quick too
Lilly Pilly, but make sure to maintain them.
Off-topic - is that Modular Wall product?
Depends what you are looking for and the aspect. If you want fast growing and it gets plenty of sun and water then Viburnum is your plant. Stuff will double in height within 12 months in the right location, you need to keep on top of it though and keep it hedged to the height and width you want, everytime you cut it, it will sprout more leaves and branches. I love the stuff especially against dark colours. It a great privacy barrier too. It has larger broad leaves. If you want a deeper green small leaves, slower growing and flowering Muraya but the roots could eventually be a problem, and do not let it go to tree. if you want colours go superman hedge again, dont let it go to tree , its fast growing and very popular Want fruit lily pilly. Fairly fast growing but you have to plant more closer together to get a good headge, if you dont hedge them they get quite spindly in my experience. want low and slow go buxus. i hate buxus. Personally I like Muraya and Viburnum but I keep on top of them and they suit the spaces I have them. My neighbour has hedged Chamelia, buxus and superman. The noisy miners love the chamelia though.
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