Thirty-two hedges and privacy screens, one guide, and the single shape rule that decides which way yours goes.
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Privacy hedges almost always fail the same way. The top grows thick, the bottom goes thin, and a few years in you can see straight through the lower half. It's rarely the plant. It's the shape it was cut into — and on a red cedar or an arborvitae, bare brown wood never grows back.
“Keep the top narrower than the bottom, and a hedge stays green to the ground.”
The other failure happens before the first cut: the wrong plant for the zone, the soil or the spot. Pick the right one, space it right, keep the base wider than the top, and a hedge gets thicker every year.
Sixteen pages, beautifully designed and specific to hedges and screens — not generic shrub advice off the internet.
Light, watering, drainage and the one real job. Four things decide almost everything about a hedge.
How to taper and trim, when to cut in Florida and beyond, and the one line on a conifer you can never cross.
Which privacy plants are northern, which handle Florida heat, which are South Florida only — and which take salt.
How far apart to plant, why staggered rows screen faster, and the gap that saves the back of your hedge.
Sooty mold, thrips, mites, bagworms, rot — how to read each one from the damage in about a minute.
Brodie, Taylor, Green Giant, Emerald Green, podocarpus, clusia, Green Island, yaupon, boxwood, cocoplum, viburnum, privet and four clumping bamboos — with size and zones.
A privacy hedge is ten or twenty plants and years of growing time. One badly timed or badly shaped cut can cost you the bottom half for good. This protects all of them for the price of two coffees — and it's yours for life.
Every cut that leaves the top wider than the base shades out a little more of the bottom. You don't see it for a season or two — and by the time you do, on a conifer it can't be undone. Get the shape right from the first trim.
If this guide doesn't help your hedge, email us within 30 days and we'll refund you. No forms, no questions.
Eureka Farms is a family-run tropical plant nursery in Florida. Everything in this guide comes from growing these hedges and screens at scale and watching what actually keeps them full — not from reading other care guides.
A 16-page PDF written for your hedge. The download link appears on screen the moment you pay and is emailed to you too.
Yes. It's a standard PDF, so it opens on any phone, tablet or computer, and prints cleanly if you like paper.
A tag covers light and water. This guide covers what goes wrong: how to read the warning signs, which fix matches which problem, and what to do in the first weeks after it arrives.
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The growers at Eureka Farms, a family-run tropical plant nursery in Florida. It's based on raising these plants at the nursery, not on other care guides.
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