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Originally Posted by Switter
Podocarpus is what I went with. Home Depot has a deal where you buy more than 12, the price per unit drops. I bought the smaller ones (about 2 feet tall) because they're quite a bit cheaper than the larger ones, so I won't have an actual privacy hedge for about 2-3 years. I am OK with that though. The price of the taller ones, which were about 4 feet tall, was almost $50 each. The 2 footers were only $17 each, $14 if you buy more than 12. As I understand it, they can grow 1.5 to 2 feet per year. Underneath it (not shown in the picture) I went with pine straw because it's super cheap. You can pick up pine straw bales for five dollars apiece at a place down in Leesburg, off of 441. I forget the name though.
I was going to go 2 foot off the property line, which is the minimum setback, but after I called to have the utilities marked I had to plant them closer to the lanai to avoid hitting any underground utilities.
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Looks like you did a good job and should have a nice hedge over time. It’s great to have so much room to easily walk around the hedges when they get big and you have to trim them a couple times per year.
Now that our hedges are fully grown it’s probably not necessary, but during their rapid growth stage it helps to fertilize them. I used a slow release granular palm fertilizer from Lowel’s and sprinkled some on the ground above the roots in the early spring and again in the early fall. Also, we have a hose attachment that sprays a water and liquid miracle grow mix. I sprayed the entire row of plants with the mixture two or three times per year. Within three years we had a decent privacy hedge and after four years it was completely full.