In addition to lending shade and visual appeal to your yard, a healthy green hedge can make it feel more secluded. In most cases, the best plants for privacy hedges are easy to maintain and ...

For those in the warmest climates in the United States, there are many options for a living privacy hedge, but this tree is ...

Trees in hedges help with habitat provision and carbon storage, bringing diversity and resilience to the farmed landscape, while providing continuity when hedges are being managed. For farmers and ...

American arborvitae ( Thuja occidentalis) is a low-maintenance, fast-growing evergreen tree that offers a tall privacy hedge.

Finding the perfect balance between a yard that's low-maintenance and secluded can feel like a chore. Many folks settle for a wooden fence that eventually rots or for hedge plant options that never ...

Benjamin Franklin famously advised, "Love your neighbor, yet don’t pull down your hedge." Unfortunately, hedges have generally been pulled down to make way for fences and walls; hard barriers that are ...

Bonus! Some plants attract wildlife such as butterflies, songbirds and hummingbirds, which need your help because their habitat is disappearing.

Each year in mid- to late October, the OSU Extension office fields questions about hedge apples, an oddity of nature which seem to fall from the sky in autumn. These large and heavy fruits with an odd ...