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Friday - June 13, 2008
From: Las Cruces, NM
Region: Southwest
Topic: Privacy Screening, Shrubs, Trees
Title: Evergreen plants for a windbreak
Answered by: Nan Hampton
QUESTION:
Our church has need to plant a windbreak. We would like fast growing native plants, preferably evergreen or really early 'leafers' to protect us from our windy season beginning in mid/late February.ANSWER:
Here are several evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubs native to New Mexico that should work well. To see more possibilities visit the Recommended Species page and click on New Mexico on the map for a list of commercially available native plant species suitable for landscaping.
Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) evergreen
Atriplex canescens (fourwing saltbush) semi-evergreen
Cercocarpus montanus (alderleaf mountain mahogany) almost evergreen
Fendlera rupicola (cliff fendlerbush) deciduous to semi-evergreen
Fraxinus greggii (Gregg's ash) almost evergreen
Juniperus scopulorum (Rocky Mountain juniper) evergreen, small tree to 40 feet
Larrea tridentata (creosote bush) evergreen
Pinus edulis (twoneedle pinyon) evergreen, small tree 10-30 feet
Yucca elata (soaptree yucca) evergreen
Yucca torreyi (Torrey's yucca) evergreen
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