Fast Growing Shrubs

There are many quick growing shrubs, which grow in a short span of time, and provide good privacy and can be also used for screening. This way, you don't need to plant a fence, the shrubs will provide enough privacy. For such purpose, you can select shrubs which are fast growing. However, the fast growing shrubs might need frequent pruning maintenance. So, right selection of any shrubs and trees is important. So, while selecting a fast growing shrub, consider its full-grown height and breadth, and select the ones which grow to a height of around 7 feet if you want the shrubs to go fast and provide privacy, and avoid pruning them too much. Also, while selecting any flowering shrubs and bushes that you want to plant in front of your house, in the yard or a flower garden, make sure you select shrubs that have full-grown height of 2-3 feet, so that you can again cut down the time on pruning.

Popular Fast Growing Shrubs

Redosier Dogwood: This is a deciduous shrub, that is popular for its stunning red stems. These are good choice as shrubs for screening, as they provide a fast medium-sized screen in the summer season. They produce white colored flowers during late spring, and white fruits appear during late summer. This shrub grows around 7-9 feet tall, with a similar size circumference.

Leyland Cypress: It grows very fast, and grows tall. It can provide a garden with 3-4 feet of vertical height every growing season. This shrub has normally a very dark green color, but it also comes in bluish green, gray, bright green and gold color. Though, this shrub grows very tall, with proper pruning you can maintain a good size.

Lilac : These are easy to maintain fast growing shrub. Also, the lilac flowering plants fill the surrounding area with a beautiful fragrance. These shrubs are often planted in rows along the property borders, and pruned to maintain as hedges. These shrubs are a good choice if you are looking for old-fashioned types of shrubs. Another good choice of old-fashioned fast growing shrub is the mock orange bush.

Privet: Though termed as invasive shrubs like burning bush, this shrub is also opted as an option of a privet hedge. There are around 5 types of privet shrubs, which include the Chinese privet shrubs, Amur privet shrubs and the common privets. These shrubs can fill in better and look bushier if they are pruned frequently.

Butterfly Bush: If you are looking for fast growing flowering shrubs, then butterfly bush is a good choice. Butterfly bush are quite popular as bushes that provide privacy. It's not just that they grow very fast, but they also help to block out noise. You can always see many butterflies flying around this bush, during their peak blooming time. These shrubs provide big spikes of colorful flowers, which attract many butteries and hummingbirds.

Other Good Rapidly Growing Shrubs

• Mock Orange
• Cotoneaster
• Burning Bush
• Forsythia
• Pussy Willow
• Diablo Ninebark
• Loropetalum
• Yew
• Hemlock

So, select good fast growing hedge shrubs, that have attractive stem and leaf colors; and beautiful flowering and berry producing shrubs, for your flower garden. Make sure you do proper pruning to maintain the health and shape of these shrubs!