6Popes1Booner
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I'm doing a Screen with cedars this spring and would like to put some shrubs in for deer and help screen also. What would be some good shrubs? Thanks.
Shrubs?
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Matthewfox_45
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High bush cranberry, wild plum, red osier dogwood are all good ones in my opinion. Ninebark, is another good one.
Hardwood11
It is going to be a good fall!
Plum (good survival)thick screen
HorseDoctor
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Deer "prune" my plums pretty bad. I've got a couple plum thickets doing OK but I've also got a LOT of little "bonsai" prune plants that are years old & still 2 feet tall. Ninebark is pretty much plant it, ignore it & it does great for me. Honeysuckle does well with neglect also, but some varieties can get pretty invasive.
Gray dogwoods r excellent. Pry been my most successful of dogwoods. Followed by silky and then redosier
Like above, I do high bush, ninebark, plum, choke cherry, Hazelnut (really like it!!!), arrowood, etc. I personally would experiement - say u did 1,000 one spring - variety- fill gaps following yr of species that didn't live and buy more of ones u had success with. It'll be apparent after possibly just one season. Maybe 2. More the better so deer or whatevER doesnt ravage things.
Like above, I do high bush, ninebark, plum, choke cherry, Hazelnut (really like it!!!), arrowood, etc. I personally would experiement - say u did 1,000 one spring - variety- fill gaps following yr of species that didn't live and buy more of ones u had success with. It'll be apparent after possibly just one season. Maybe 2. More the better so deer or whatevER doesnt ravage things.
I did transplant and deer were hard on em so need to do a lot, no doubt. If your dad's place has em on, they obviously can flourish and you have the correct environment for them. I'd play the #'s game and do a lot, I'd try seeds and transplant and see how they go. Great shrubs, I love em & so do the critters.
BigfootWillow.com
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Forsythia and nanking cherry are a couple others.
HorseDoctor
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Nanking cherry grew like bandits but VERY short lived on my home place (central IA). Just when I was getting really impressed with them they started dying off. Very few lasted longer than 5 years.
BigfootWillow.com
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I've done alright with nanking, this one flowering below is around quarter century old, also some other shrubs in that photo.
If I was planting a natural line and dug up suckers, probably fill it in with things like plum, dogwood, hazelnut, prickly ash, nannybery and sumac.
If I was planting a natural line and dug up suckers, probably fill it in with things like plum, dogwood, hazelnut, prickly ash, nannybery and sumac.
6Popes1Booner
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All good ideas and thanks for all the replies. I'm assuming these will all have to be caged to protect them or is there an easier way?