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Article: GETTING A WORD IN HEDGEWISE QUICK-GROWING SHRUBS CAN BECOME HEDGE HOGS, SO SELECT PLANTS CAREFULLY.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 9, 1999
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You want a fast-growing hedge that will form a 12-foot-high screen in three months and never need trimming? Build a wall.
The need for privacy screening seems to grow as the population does; we don't want to have to look at our neighbors, or have them look at us. But the quicker the hedge grows, the more likely it will outgrow your expectations.
Almost any popular hedge plant that grows fast will want to keep growing until it becomes a tree. English and Portuguese laurel and photinia make fine hedges if you keep after them; otherwise, they are rapidly on their way to becoming trees that are 20 to 30 feet tall and wide.
Hedges have a long ...