What are the easiest shrubs to grow

Some of the favorite low-maintenance shrubs include Boxwood, Dwarf Gardenia, Rosemary, and Rhododendron. You can add in a variety of sizes to add some extra curb appeal as well as flowering, evergreen, and deciduous shrubs for the front of your house.

Evergreen Hollies (Ilex aquifolium)

You can grow a variety of holly trees for creating a hedge or can also use them as a barrier plant. If you are looking for plants that stay green in Winters, this is it! Growing Tip: Evergreen hollies flourish well in full sunlight.

American Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis) is a fast-growing evergreen hedge with feathery foliage. It grows best in full sun and is very cold hardy. It’s a great choice for a privacy hedge. American Arborvitae is hardy in USDA Zones 3-8.

Arborvitae (Thuja)

A good choice for large privacy hedges is the fast grower ‘Green Giant’, which can reach 50 to 60 feet tall (with a spread of 12 to 20 feet). If you want a bush that is more compact and do not mind waiting a bit longer, ‘Emerald Green’ arborvitae is a better option.

Evergreen trees are the best choice for privacy screens as they don’t lose their leaves in the winter and protect your yard from prying eyes even in cold weather. Fast-growing choices include cypress, such as the Leyland cypress (Cupressocyparis leylandii) or arborvitae, such as Thuja occidentalis “Emerald Green”.

Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world, so it can create a lush and exotic privacy screen very quickly. Some varieties of bamboo are invasive, so consider picking a slow-spreading, clumping variety, or planting it in large raised planters to keep it under control.

Holly. This broad-leaved evergreen shrub provides excellent privacy. It’s known for its lustrous, dark green foliage and striking red fruit it produces throughout the year. Holly can grow up to 10 feet, making it one of the best for tall privacy fencing.

There are varying opinions and of course it also depends on your planting zone and conditions, but the Murray Cypress tree tends to top the list of the fastest growing evergreen tree. It can shoot up 4 feet in one year. In three years, you could potentially have a 12 foot hedge of privacy with these trees!

Forsythia

The forsythia is a fast-growing, hardy shrub that blooms early—providing a sunny sight before the rest of the landscape greens up. Forsythias make an excellent choice for those wanting a fast-growing flowering hedge.

Give your garden a splash of cooling blue by growing blue hydrangeas. Blue flower tones appear in the French or bigleaf hydrangea. … When plant roots absorb aluminum, petal colors take on blue tones. If your soil is naturally acidic, your hydrangea blooms will tend toward blue and purple shades.

Lofty Trees

One of the fastest-growing evergreen trees is Leyland cypress (x Cupressocyparis leylandii), which grows as much as 3 feet per year when young, reaching 20 to 30 feet tall in 10 years.

Callistemon (bottlebrush) varieties are another good choice for hedging. Ozbreed have a number of Callistemon cultivars that are ideal for different settings. Callistemon are hardy, drought and frost resistant and their stunning flower displays will attract the native birds.

Box hedging is a top choice when it comes to hedging due to its glossy, evergreen foliage, dense habit, and in our opinion – slow growth rate.

Which evergreens grow the fastest? Eastern white pine and green giant arborvitae are some of the fastest-growing evergreens. Each add on about 2 feet every year!