When you’re looking to add privacy, create a border, or add height to your landscaping, you need a hedge! These 8 best evergreen hedge plants for your yard are versatile and beautiful shrub options all year long.
One of my favorite features of my current backyard is that my neighbor has an evergreen hedge. Now technically they are a bit overgrown and a little worn from age, but the privacy and year round greenery of evergreen hedging plants just can’t be beat.
The Common Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) is the classic hedge fast-growing shrub that can reach a height and width of 15 feet, though typically it is pruned much smaller for formal hedges.