Three “Taylor” junipers seem to be doing well along the back fence.
We’ve lived in our home for almost 11 years, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that I finally got around to planting some evergreens along the back fence. I don’t know why it took me so long—indecision, probably, caused by too many choices combined with a lack of confidence about making the right ones.
The space is small, so I needed shrubs that are narrow but tall. I didn’t want to have to wait for 20 years for privacy, so they needed to be relatively fast-growing. The planting area is elevated and next to a few moisture-hogging hedge trees, so drought-tolerance also was important.