Plants for Privacy

Enjoy quiet moments in your backyard without worrying about what the neighbors are doing. Sit back and soak in the private beauty of the garden you've created. Position plants to also act as privacy guards to what is going on inside your home too!

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Proven Winners Plants

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Graceful Purple Rose of Sharon for Summer Screening

Fabulous variegated foliage beautifully contrasts the wide light purple flowers that adorn Paraplu Adorned rose of Sharon. This hibiscus will bloom all summer, inviting butterflies, bees and hummingbirds to visit. Its tall, graceful habit moves in the breeze and lends well to a living privacy screen or as the tallest plant in a pollinator garden. Plant in full sun for maximum blooming and best color, however it can grow and flower reasonably well in partially shaded spots, too. Deer resistant.

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Tall Hibiscus Creates a Living Screen for Privacy All Summer

Flowering earlier and for longer than most other Rose of Sharons, Starblast Chiffon hibiscus will be the star of your garden! Each of its brilliant white flowers has a fluffy doubled center, highlighted by a dramatic hot pink starburst center. This tall shrub reaches up to 144 inches making it a great option for colorful borders, privacy screens or a striking specimen planting.

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Lime Green Evergreen for Year-Round Privacy Screening

This fast-growing feathery selection of false cypress has fresh-looking, lime-green foliage. Cedar Rapids Chamaecyparis' pyramidal habit makes a handsome specimen and looks commanding when grouped in a line for a hedge or screen adding year-round coverage. This soft-to-the-touch evergreen needs little maintenance. It grows well in sun or part shade, but it does need well-drained soil.

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Pillar Rose Of Sharon

Perennial Hibiscus

Purple Plants

Attract Pollinators

Narrow Rose of Sharon Perfect as Natural Privacy Screen

Purple Pillar naturally grow as a narrow column, so it takes up just a fraction of the space that conventional roses of Sharon do. In summer, each stem on this perennial hibiscus is packed along its entire length with purple blooms that attract pollinators of all kinds. Its space-saving habit makes it extremely versatile in the landscape - from borders to front entrances, specimen plantings, even containers! Try in a hedge as a natural screen for privacy, too.

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Low Maintenance Landscaping

Attractive & Unconventional Evergreen for Privacy

With an attractive tear drop shape, Cheer Drops Arborvitae easily transforms any garden from drab to darling. No pruning is needed to maintain its shape. Try this evergreen to create more architecturally interesting hedges and foundation plantings. Reaching up to 18 feet, this evergreen makes an attractive and unconventional privacy screen. Thrives even in chilly USDA zone 3.

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Deer Resistant Perennials

Narrow Aqua Blue Juniper for Privacy Screening

This aqua-blue pyramidal juniper will catch your attention with its color and keep you hooked with its elegant, narrow habit. Aquavita Juniper's excellent deer resistance and low maintenance nature make it a perfect fit for any garden, as a specimen or hedge. Reaching 10-15' tall, this evergreen shrub also makes an attractive privacy screen. Fall and winter berries will attract birds to your garden in fall and winter, just another trait that adds to its year round interest.

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Shrubs For Landscaping

Tall Flowering Shrub for Privacy Screening

If you prefer luscious, rich colored flowers, you will be happy to see Dark Lavender Chiffon grow in your landscape as a hedge, specimen, or in a border planting. This Rose of Sharon's long lasting blooms attracts pollinators all summer, yet remains unbothered by deer. Reaching up to 12', this flowering shrub makes a good screening plant. Heat, drought and salt tolerant, this plant is perfect for Midwest gardens, where it can withstand harsh summers and salty runoff from winter road treatments.

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Deer Resistant Shrubs

Attracting Butterflies

Pink Plant

Attract Butterflies

Tall, Graceful Rose of Sharon for Privacy

Although there aren't any red Rose of Sharons, Paraplu Rouge gets as close as ever. These are the darkest reddish-pink blooms we've ever seen on a rose of Sharon! The large flowers bloom summer thru fall, attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden. Its tall, graceful habit moves in the breeze and lends well to a living privacy screen. Plant in full sun for maximum blooming and best color, however it can grow and flower reasonably well in partially shaded spots, too. Deer resistant.

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Chartreuse Plants

Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana

Deer Resistant Plants

Tall Narrow Evergreen Shrub For Privacy Screen

Rich, steadfast golden colored foliage ALL year! Pinpoint Gold Chamaecyparis will be a shining star in your landscape. Its tall, narrow habit can fit into any sized landscape as a stand-alone specimen planting or as part of a foundation grouping or privacy screen. This statement-making false cypress requires no pruning to maintain its narrow habit. Add this salt tolerant evergreen shrub for winter color in the landscape in zones 5-7.

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Leaf Texture

Attractive Evergreen for Privacy Screen

Looking for a dramatic specimen plant that offers year round interest? Look no further than Haywire false cypress! This chamaecyparis brings together a very cool thread-leaf texture and a stunning pyramidal habit that create an irresistible specimen in the landscape. This evergreen shrub is salt tolerant, making it a great selection for a privacy screen along roads that get treated during the winter.

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Thunbergia Alata

Black Eyed Susan Vine

Climbing Vine for Adding Privacy

Take your garden to new heights with this gorgeous climbing vine! Coconut A-Peel Thunbergia (Black-Eyed Susan Vine) will give you color all summer long, while climbing happily up whatever support you give it. Creamy white flowers with a black eye bloom on a fast growing plant. Try this heat tolerant annual in the landscape or in containers. Or, try it on a trellis anywhere you need a bit of privacy. Kids and adults alike will love it! Trails up to 96".

Tall Rose of Sharon Ideal for Pretty Privacy Screen

The crisp white flowers of 'White Chiffon' Rose of Sharon make a cool, refreshing oasis in the landscape that is especially effective on summer nights, perfect for a moonlight garden. This variety sets little to no seed so no nuisance weeds to pull out. This tall flowering shrub reaches up to 144 inches, making it an excellent option for a colorful border or privacy screen. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.

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Attract Hummingbirds

Landscape Inspiration

Purple Magenta

Magenta Purple

Magenta Rose of Sharon for Privacy in the Landscape

Add an element of movement to your landscape. Magenta Chiffon Rose of Sharon is not stiff and awkward like other roses of Sharon but has a graceful habit that moves with the breeze. Its saturated magenta-purple powderpuff flowers are long-blooming and will attract hummingbirds to your garden. This tall shrub reaches up to 144 inches making it a great option for colorful borders, privacy screens or a strinking specimen planting.

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Medium Height Shrubs

Evergreens For Front Of House

Full Sun Privacy Plants

Fine Line Buckthorn Landscaping

Short Evergreen Shrubs

Tall Shrubs In Front Of House

Fine Line Buckthorn

Privacy Landscaping Between Houses

Shrubs In Front Of House

Densely Branched Shrub for Privacy Screen

The dense branching of 'Fine Line' Improved Buckthorn provides good coverage making it an excellent choice for narrow hedges or screens. It may look exotic, but this shrub is very easy to grow - drought tolerant and requires no deadheading. Its deer resistant foliage is full and lush from top to bottom, providing foliage interest in the landscape that continues through fall. Try this upright, narrow shrub as a 'thriller' in your container recipe for sun. It would look great framing your doorway!

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Semi-Dwarf Rose of Sharon

Eye-catching from spring to fall, Sugar Tip rose of Sharon offers unique brightly variegated creamy-white and bluish-green foliage. It produces clear pink, double flowers and does not produce seed. This beautiful, semi-dwarf rose of Sharon is long blooming, heat and drought tolerant. It attracts butterflies and hummingbirds but is deer resistant. Sugar Tip makes a beautiful screen or hedge for privacy, specimen planting or border.