Add some privacy and beauty to your garden with shrubs. Perfect for creating a natural privacy screen or defining a garden’s boundaries, shrubs are a great choice for a low-maintenance, long-term solution. Depending on your needs, you can choose from evergreen shrubs that provide year-round color and coverage, deciduous shrubs that will add seasonal interest, or a mix of both for a well-rounded landscape. Popular evergreen shrubs for privacy include Leyland Cypress, Emerald Green Arborvitae, and Thuja Green Giant. These varieties are fast-growing, and can reach heights of up to 40 feet, creating a dense wall of privacy. Deciduous shrubs like Burning Bush, Dogwood, and Redtwig Dogwood are also excellent choices, providing a burst of color during the summer months and a serene winter silhouette when their leaves drop. It’s important to consider climate and soil conditions when selecting shrubs for privacy, as well as the size and shape of the plants. No matter what type of shrub you choose, your garden will be more private and attractive.
Editor’s Top 10 Best Shrubs To Plant For Privacy, In-Depth Reviews and Comparisons
1#. Ligustrum Japonicum ‘Howardi’ – 10 Live Plants – Evergreen Privacy Hedge Yellow Tip Shrub
Features
Grown, packaged and shipped exclusively by Florida Foliage. Another wonderful Ligustrum which makes an excellent large hedge, as well as a nice colorful accent plant. Like most any Ligustrum, can be pruned / trimmed to maintain a desired shape or size. Has very dark, deep, glossy green leaves – new growth is bright yellow turning to green with age
During the spring / summer growing season, Howardi has almost a two-toned look with the brilliant yellow new growth, combined with the dark, glossy green of older, mature foliage. Moderate growth rate & high disease resistance makes this evergreen shrub a perfect choice for any landscape. Prefers full sun, but will do well in part shade as well.
This low-maintenance evergreen needs a regular water schedule to ensure the growth of a mature root system. After the mature root system is established, watering is needed occasionally, except during a drought, watering is needed regularly.
Responds well to pruning. Shearing is recommended 2-3 per year to maintain desired shape. Mulching is recommended to detour weeds, retain moisture, and keep temperatures low.
With an upright, broad and bushy form, Howardi Golden ligustrum makes a great mid-size hedge, and looks equally nice by itself as an accent planting in foundation plantings or landscape beds and islands. The bright foliage contrasts nicely with other shrubs that have purple, red, or dark green foliage.
2#. (One) Fastest Growing Tree in The World – Ready to Plant – One Live Aussie Hybrid Willow Tree Bare Root Cut – Great for Fast Shade – 10 feet in First Year – Austree Hybrid Willow Privacy Tree
Features
#1 GROWTH RATE: Fastest growing tree in the world, very attractive look, no cotton or suckers to clean up. Very Easy and Effective
EASY TO GROW: Planting and Growing Instructions and Instructional VideoIncluded, 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee
GOOD FOR ENVIORNMENT: Suitable in USDA Zones 3-10, All of the USA. Drought and Disease Tolerant.
3-5 foot spacing recommended for fast Hedge Row or Wind/Sound Barrier
3#. Ligustrum Japonicum Recurvifolium | Curled Leaf Privet | 20 Live Plants | Evergreen Privacy Hedge
Features
Large, upright, broad-leaved evergreen shrub, highly adaptable and easy to grow. Lustrous dark green, wavy foliage creates a handsome small accent tree, foundation hedge, or privacy screen. Excellent for use as a container specimen.
If you’re looking to create a quick privacy screen or natural or clipped hedge, it doesn’t get much better than the Wavy Leaf Ligustrum. This shrub can be left to grow naturally to 10 feet or so in height, or responds very well to shearing for hedges that can be maintained at 5 feet or more in height
A fine addition to fragrance gardens and Xeriscape gardens (low water needs).
Wavy Leaf Ligustrum is exceptionally easy to grow in a wide range of soils provided they are well-drained. It prefers a moist but well drained soil in full sun to light shade. Plants are exceptionally drought tolerant when established and highly resistant to deer, disease, heat, humidity, and insects. No pruning necessary, however can be pruned as a formal hedge or small tree.
Recurve Ligustrum, Ligustrum japonicum ‘Recurvifolium’, is a tough and adaptable fast-growing evergreen flowering shrub which makes an excellent hedge or attractive small tree.
4#. One Basket Willow Bush Cuttings -Salix purpurea – Prized for Branches to Make Willow Baskets – A Short Thick Shrub Makes it Great for Privacy Screen – Streamco Willow Bush
Features
One Live Basket Willow Tree Shrubs – Fast Growing, Make your own Willow Baskets or Furniture
100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed – Growing Instructions and Tips Included
Work Well for Privacy Hedge, Plant 3 feet Apart
Suitable in Growing Zones 3-10. Prefer Full or Partial Sun
5#. Ligustrum Waxleaf Privet – 20 Live Plants – Evergreen Privacy Hedge
Features
This upright deciduous, occasionally semi-evergreen, shrub blooms creamy-white, fragrant flowers followed by round blue-black fruit. Its dark green and bright green glossy foliage has larger leaves compared to the Sinense. This fast grower will reach 8-10 feet high. Its dense and bushy characteristics make it ideal for a privacy screen, wind screen, hedging, and small tree, while adding great color to your garden.
This low-maintenance evergreen needs a regular water schedule to ensure the growth of a mature root system. After the mature root system is established, watering is needed occasionally, except during a drought, watering is needed regularly. Responds well to pruning. Shearing is recommended 2-3 per year to maintain desired shape. Mulching is recommended to detour weeds, retain moisture, and keep temperatures low.
Compact habit with glossy foliage responds well to pruning into topiary or small standard trees. Displays a profusion of white blooms. Useful hedge, screen or windbreak. Performs well in containers and as a topiary specimen. Evergreen.
Because of their versatility and undemanding nature, they are used extensively in home landscapes. Plant them as hedges, foundation plants, patio trees or in shrub borders.
Grown, packaged and shipped exclusively by Florida Foliage.
6#. 10 Austree Hybrid Willow Trees, Fastest Growing Shade or Privacy Tree – Austree Hybrid Willow Tree – 10 Live Trees
Features
Easy to Grow – Low Maintenance Trees
Fast Growing 10-15 feet a year. Privacy and Shade in No Time. Produce Oxygen and Filter the Air
Attractive Tree – Pleasing to the Eye. You will be happy with these trees and how fast they grow. Satisfaction Guaranteed
You will be amazed by how fast these trees grow.
7#. Pragense Viburnum – Evergreen Privacy Hedge – Live Plants Shipped 1 to 2 Feet Tall by DAS Farms (No California) (One Pragense)
Features
All pictures are of fully grown plants. Sizes shipped are in the title and description. Deciduous plants do not have leaves in the winter!
CALIFORNIA ORDERS WILL BE CANCELLED – This is due to CA state regulations and is beyond our control.
☀️ Zone: 3-9 / Morning sun, Afternoon shade ONLY / Mature Height: 4-6 ft Width: 4-5 ft / Soil: slightly acid moist
Size shipped: 1-2 feet tall in trade gallon containers with soilless media and double boxed for a safe transport.
We guarantee a successful transplant for 30 days if the included planting instructions are followed with the correct location and water. Deciduous plants bought dormant during the winter are guaranteed to leaf out in the spring under the same conditions.
8#. Natural Privacy Fence – 60 Ft Long – Grow 20 Fast Growing Hybrid Willow Trees – Up to 10 Feet First Year – Change The View
Features
20 WILLOW CUTTINGS: Healthy Cuttings to Grow. Great Price!! Easy to Grow – Low Maintenance Trees
FAST GROWING TREES: 10-15 feet a year. Privacy and Shade in No Time. Produce Oxygen and Filter the Air
NATURE FRIENDLY: Attractive Tree – Pleasing to the Eye. You will be happy with these trees and how fast they grow. Satisfaction Guaranteed
AMAZING GROWTH: You will be amazed by how fast these trees grow.
DIRECTIONS INCLUDED: 20 Austree Willow Trees. Plant 3 feet apart, and grow a 60 foot long natural privacy fence.
9#. 2 Basket Willow Bush Cuttings -Salix purpurea – Prized for Branches to Make Willow Baskets – A Short Thick Shrub Makes it Great for Privacy Screen – Streamco Willow Bush
Features
2 Live Basket Willow Tree Shrubs – Fast Growing, Make your own Willow Baskets or Furniture
100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed – Growing Instructions and Tips Included
Work Well for Privacy Hedge, Plant 3 feet Apart
Suitable in Growing Zones 3-10. Prefer Full or Partial Sun
10#. 2.5 Qt – Sky Pencil Holly – Evergreen Shrub with an Upright and Slender Growth Habit
Features
The Japanese Sky Pencil is female only cultivar of Ilex Crenata. Dense evergreen foliage that retains its natural shape without pruning making it very easy to care for. Fully mature plants reach sizes of 5-10 feet tall x 18-24 inches wide.
MULTI USE: With its unique appearance you may find that there are several places that you may want to place your Sky Holly. They do well as container plants, tall hedges or privacy screens. In order for your plant to produce berries both male and females must be present for pollination.
EASY TO MAINTAIN: Sky Pencil Hollies retain their elegant form without pruning, but they often benefit from light trimming while still young. Prune during the winter as the plant is not actively growing while being sure not to remove more than 1/3rd of its growth.
USDA ZONES: Japanese Sky Pencil is hardy in zones 6 – 9. New Sky Pencil plants require frequent watering until the roots are well established. Make sure to avoid allowing the soil to become soggy as this will increase the probability of root rot.
POTTED PLANTS: Ships as a 2.5 Quart potted plant with soil from the Alabama Gulf Coast. This plant is unavailable to ship to Hawaii and Alaska.
