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Jackson & Perkins
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20 Fast-growing Shrubs to Add Privacy to Your Yard and Landscape | Jackson & Perkins
When your landscape needs pops of color in a hurry, try these fast-growing shrubs. You’ll appreciate the added visual interest and adding long-lived bushes to your landscape will beautifully fill bare spots in the yard. Be sure to check the Product Details to find shrubs that are ideally sized at maturity for your garden space.
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Instant Hedge
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7 Fast-Growing Hedges & Shrubs for Privacy - InstantHedge
March 16, 2022 - NAME Prunus laurocerasus (English or Cherry laurel) EVERGREEN/DECIDUOUS Broadleaf Evergreen Glossy green leaves ... Schip laurels (or Skip laurels) are a very popular shrub to use for an evergreen fast-growing hedge.
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Kdlandscapeinc
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6 Great Privacy Plants for Your Backyard in Chicagoland
February 17, 2025 - Try one of these best plants for privacy so you can have a living screen that looks amazing, but also offers functional serenity. The deer-resistant green giant arborvitae is a fairly fast-growing privacy plant for your backyard.
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Fastest possible growing non-invasive privacy hedge? Roadside, pretty dry soil, zone 6b.
Witch hazel shrub, ninebark, fern leaf buckthorn. Also, you could ask the group at r/nativeplantgardening More on reddit.com
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Beginner Gardening:Best privacy shrubs/trees Chicago Area
A thread in the Beginner Gardening forum, titled Best privacy shrubs/trees Chicago Area More on davesgarden.com
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Fast growing privacy screen | UBC Botanical Garden Forums
Moved into our house a year ago and since then the house next door was sold, demolished and a much larger house with a back balcony about 15' high is... More on forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca
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What's the fastest growing, most imposing shrub / bush / tree I can plant here for privacy?
Something shrubby like photinia red robin is pretty and grows fairly quickly. Also easy enough to keep under control once the desired height is achieved. More on reddit.com
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Great Garden Plants
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Shrubs & Trees For Privacy Hedges – Great Garden Plants
The best shrubs, trees & more for creating privacy fences all in one place. Functional & versatile shrubs for hedges. Fast-growing evergreens for sale.
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Monrovia
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Best high-impact, fast-growing shrubs in all zones | Be Inspired
July 31, 2025 - A handsome shrub that is pest- and disease-resistant and perfect for a quick hedge or privacy screen. Low-maintenance, dense, and upright, with lustrous burgundy-red new foliage. Perfect for southern gardens. Quickly reaches 10' tall, 7' wide. Zones 7–11. A gorgeous fast-growing shrub with huge clusters of rich purple flowers.
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The Spruce
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Plant These 22 Fast-Growing Privacy Shrubs for a Secluded Yard
March 4, 2025 - Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is such a fast-growing deciduous shrub adding two feet annually that many recommend pruning it down to within a foot or so of the ground in early spring.
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Houzz
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what's a good FAST growing privacy hedge for Chicago area?
... Plant a privet hedge (sp) they grow fast if you water alot.Or you can plant Lombary poplars and keep trimed to 12-15'.They to will grow real fast and thick.I have used both so I know they will work.Good luck.
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Platt Hill Nursery
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Evergreen Trees and Other Plants for Privacy in Chicago
September 30, 2025 - Growth rate – Fast growers (like Green Giant Arborvitae) fill in quickly, but slower growers may be easier to manage long term. Style – Manicured arborvitae hedges vs. more natural spruce or flowering shrubs.
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Reddit
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r/Permaculture on Reddit: Fastest possible growing non-invasive privacy hedge? Roadside, pretty dry soil, zone 6b.
August 13, 2025 -

I am at the end of my rope with my looky-loo neighbors across the street and their endless parade of random visitors/guests. I live in a quite rural area and when I bought the house, I looked at the map and there is one house down a small street across from me. I figured how bad can one house be? Reader, the traffic in and out of this place is crazy. And they love nothing more than to park at the end of their road and stare at my house.

I have tried miscanthus giganteus; it has grown a bit (planted 2 years ago) but hasn't gotten too tall and is still quite sparse. I hope it will fill in in coming years but not sure it will. Other things I've tried have failed to thrive, as the soil is nutrient-poor and tends to be quite dry, especially as we are in a drought.

One begins in such a situation to be tempted by invasives. I won't do it, but can anyone recommend something that grows in an invasive-like weedy manner that will provide some cover from these folks while the rest of the food forest matures? It won't be an issue in a couple of years as other things I've planted closer to the house grow in, but right now I need a quick fix. I'm in zone 6b, Maryland.

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Southern Living
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15 Shrubs To Plant For Privacy
August 24, 2025 - North privet, Southern wax myrtle, and forsythia are shrubs with an especially fast growth habit, adding between 2 feet to more than 3 feet of growth per year. How to choose privacy shrubs for the front of a house?
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Dave's Garden
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Beginner Gardening:Best privacy shrubs/trees Chicago Area
Here are some plant names, it is up to you to research to be sure they will grow in your area, and to find them. Ditto the comments above: Cheapest is not going to be the best. * marks the ones that are the fastest in my area. YMMV *Cotoneaster salicifolius. There are many other Cotoneasters, ...
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Houzz
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Fast growing privacy bushes/trees
May 20, 2003 - In a sparsely, 12 degree sloped boundary area with sandy, acidic soil, I want to plant something that will survive the conditions and provide privacy. Light will be present yet filtered by the existing oak, maple, pine, birch canopy. The intention is to limit the view to my house/pool area.
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Greenwood Nursery
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Privacy Hedge Shrubs | Greenwood Nursery
Privacy Hedge Shrubs are our fast growing shrubs and the quickest way to create a living fence hedge. When planting shrubs for privacy, look for varieties that are fast growing that will grow into a dense hedge form with tight branching making the best privacy shrub hedge. Fast growing shrubs ...
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Jackson & Perkins
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20 Fast-Growing Shrubs for Privacy | Jackson & Perkins
Ligustrum Cheyenne Privet is covered with white scented flowers, attractive to the butterflies, and followed by berries that will be held on the plant until winter, providing winter feed for the birds. Arborvitae. If you need your privacy fast, how about the Green Giant Arborvitae which can ...
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Veranda
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Create a Living Fence with These 12 Fast-Growing Shrubs for Privacy
March 13, 2024 - Planting a line of fast-growing shrubs provides nearly instant privacy. But if space permits, consider designing a privacy screen with layers of plants and fast-growing trees, which is more natural-looking than a single row of plants. By planting staggered groupings or layering a combination of evergreen and deciduous shrubs, you get a more appealing result with varied textures and colors.
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Garden Design
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17 Fast-Growing Shrubs for Your Garden
February 20, 2025 - This evergreen conifer produces blue, green, silver, or gold foliage for soft background texture and color. Use a fast-growing variety such as ‘Spartan’, ‘Pencil Point’, or Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginina) to screen an unsightly ...
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UBC Botanical Garden Forums
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Fast growing privacy screen | UBC Botanical Garden Forums
Moved into our house a year ago and since then the house next door was sold, demolished and a much larger house with a back balcony about 15' high is...