Evergreens for privacy barrier in pasture??

[Becka]

I agree with the poster that said not to plant the trees on the property line. We did that. We bought about 32- Leyland Cypress trees and planted them along the property line of a nasty neighbor that didn’t like our horses. As luck would have it…the neighbor moved about 3-years ago…long before the trees could block her view!

The trees are HUGE now!! Lovely to look at. But, the horses do ‘trim’ them…at least one of them does. We have a 3-board oak fence in between the horses and the trees and the neighbor had a split rail fence on their side of the trees.

you could put a couple strands of electric in between your new trees and the horses…just a thought.

The problem with trying to get ‘rid’ of the view of the neighbor is that it takes a while for the trees to grow. You probably would be better off planting the groups of trees in the areas where they would just block the ‘junk’ on their property and it sure wouldn’t cost a much as planting an entire property line does…sigh. [Bradford pear trees are great blockers…one nice tree per ‘junky spot’]

Oh…our other neighbor had pine trees all along our other property line…a bug got into the trees and killed most of them…he cut them all down and now, everytime we got outside, it’s come stand at the fenceline and talk a while…sigh. We’re certainly NOT going to plant that fenceline in cypress trees…but, perhaps a privacy fence in our backyard would be ‘easier’.

Feeling your pain…Best of luck!!

Take care.
Becka

[talloaks]

I would want to plant as close to the fenceline in this one area to hide the uglies and also it is facing due south. The rest of that particular fenceline has the 100 year old oaks so I only need to put the new trees at the most eastern point of the foal paddock. My barn has a courtyard which opens into various fields and the uglies are straight out my barn door to the end of the one field. It was always such a pleasant view and I would not plant the trees in my courtyard so I would block my view of the horses. Besides I don’t want to draw lightening strikes to trees that are near the gates where my horses come into the barn.
Its such a pity they took down the old oak trees–they didn’t ask me—so I guess I don’t have to ask them whether I should put up some trees on my side of the property line. These people are here to stay and the tree removal and de-screening is already done.
I will look into the cypress trees when my tree man comes out this fall to take down the dying or dead trees as he does each year. I did want to plant a Christmas type tree in one corner of my courtyard–blue spruce or something, that one would be already fenced off from the horses.
Back to the screening , it is not an entire fenceline, thank God!! But one that could be added to as we had to remove the old oaks. Besdies the horses need shade from that southern sun.

[HPFarmette]

Where I am, deer eat the bottoms of all arborvitae.

[Bluey]

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[kashmere]

Are Lombardy Poplars ok for horses? They grow quickly and take up less horizontal space than many evergreens. If not those, maybe a European Aspen?

[Simkie]

Thread is nearly ten years old. OP hasn’t logged on in years. Whatever was planted back then is probably nice and mature by now, though!

[Palm_Beach]

@talloaks

I wonder if the leland cypress fall into the cedar category??? I was told that nothing ate them and nothing would nest in them, they were strickly for privacy fencing. Wonder who would know.

Google knows. All evergreens are poisonous, but most of the time horses leave them alone so it’s not an issue. Or they have to eat a large amount. The problem with planting a row of the same species is that if one gets a disease or fungus, they all get it. I have arborvitae as a screen, inherited it from the prior owner, and have had to take down a few due to disease.