Tall Trees for Screening
Do you need to screen out a neighbour or an unsightly building next door?!
At Egardens.com.au this is by far our most common request - for the tallest trees to create a screen.
Our Top 10 Tree Varieties are perfect for residential use as screening solutions to create privacy and a green oasis to your outdoor spaces.
Key Qualities of Our Top 10
- Evergreen Foliage: Our Top 10 varieties hold on to their foliage year round so you will have a continuous screen every day of the year!
- Tall Growers: As tall growers most of the varieties listed can reach heights of up to 8m + tall
- Fast Growers: Many of our tall growers are also fast growers, creating their screens in a quick timeframe
- Eventual Heights: Ultimate growth height is always dependent on the plant's environment and conditions, with sun, water, soil, playing a major part in how tall the trees will eventually reach at maturity.
Our Top 10 Tallest Growing Tree Varieties - Evergreen Trees
1. cupressocyparis leylandii 'leighton green' - Conifer
The Leighton Green Conifer is at No.1 position and there is a good reason for this!
These will create a complete screen and have the capacity to reach tall heights of 10-15m tall.
Very fast growing, the quickest you will find to create a quick and tall screen.
2. syzygium luehmanii - lilly pilly
Syzygium luehmanii is an Australian Native Lilly Pilly variety which has the capacity to reach heights of 10-15m tall.
Lilly Pilly’s are fast growing making them an excellent choice for Hedging and Screening especially if you are after a Native and want something with a touch of colour with pops of pink shades.
3. waterhousea floribunda - lilly pilly
The Waterhousea floribunda is also an Australian Native Lilly Pilly variety which can reach heights of 10-15m tall.
This variety is more of a tree form and perfect for a more informal hedge with its weeping foliage.
You can also create a pleached effect by clear trunking these to create room underneath for under planting.
Less maintenance than a traditional hedging plant.
4. elaeocarpus eumundi
An Australian Native which is native to the Australian Rainforests reaching heights of 8-15m tall.
Beautiful new growth foliage in shades of reds and coppers.
Fast growing and perfect if you want a tall screen with very little maintenance. No need for pruning!
This variety holds its form very well, growing up tall in a column form.
5. elaeocarpus reticulatus - blueberry ash
The Blueberry Ash Tree is an Australian Native tree typically growing heights up to around 8m tall.
It also holds its form very well growing in a tall narrow like structure with little to no ongoing maintenance. No need for pruning!
These can be used as a screening tree planted in a row.
You can also pleach/ clear trunk these to create room for under planting of smaller shrubs or grasses just like in the photo above.
6. laurus nobilis - bay leaf
This Mediterranean native will hedge fabulously, reaching heights of around 8m tall.
All over green foliage with no other contrasting colours.
These also have culinary uses and aromatic foliage.
7. acmena smithii - lilly pilly
An Australian Native Lilly Pilly variety which is one of the taller growing Lilly Pilly varieties and perfect for tall hedging and screening growing up to around 5-10m tall.
This variety is not as commonly grown as other lilly pilly varieties, so please contact us for availability.
8. cupressus sempervirens 'glauca'
The Glauca Pencil Pines are a Conifer variety and one of if not the best Pencil Pine variety for keeping their form in a neat and tight compact growth habit and producing less nuts than other varieties.
Perfect for tall & narrow screening, but as a slow to moderate grower this is over a longer period of time 10 years plus.
9. ficus microcarpa 'flash'
The Ficus Flash are fast growing and are most commonly used as a screening hedge. They also work well to pleach or clear trunk so that you can create room underneath for under planting of smaller shrubs as in the photo above.
They can reach heights of up to 10m tall.
Some other factors that make these attractive is that they are completely green in colour and they don’t produce flowers.
Ficus are however known for having invasive roots so be careful about planting near structures, pipes, paving or pools.
10. bambusa textilis 'gracilis' or 'fusca' - bamboo
This is the best clumping Bamboo and this variety grows very quickly so much so it can be fully grown and screening out a very tall building in 18-24 months! Reaching height capacity of 6-8m tall.
These will create a fabulous, neat, narrow and tall screen with each plant spreading its distance to 1m and happily keeping trimmed.
DECIDUOUS OPTIONS: These will work best if you want to screen during the warmer months and prefer to let light in over the cooler months. We have not listed them here but please contact us to discuss these options.
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