Hicks Yew. Growing Zones: 3 to 7. Hick's Yews are a perfect privacy screen or hedge for cooler regions. Dense foliage and attractive, red berries welcome birds.
This unique evergreen shrub is extremely low maintenance and among top choices when considering what are the best bushes for shade. Japanese Plum Yew. The Japanese Plum Yew has lush, evergreen foliage that looks like miniature palm fronds.
This low maintenance shrub is lovely as a specimen. The Plum Yew is a great hedge plant. This yew is deer resistant and heat tolerant. Variegated Boxwood. The Variegated Boxwood has creamy white and green leaves.
These make great small shrubs for shade adding color to borders and layering the landscape. Vintage Jade Distylium. Growing Zones: 7 to 9. This hardy, yet graceful evergreen shrub will transform your landscape with its lush texture, outstanding color, and unsurpassed year-round interest. This distylium is a low growing spreader that grows to 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide at maturity. Vokel's Upright Hinoki Cypress. The Vokel's Upright Hinoki Cypress are great evergreen shrubs for any landscape.
Disease resistant, beautiful, and low maintenance, you'll love this miniature tree. Perfect for small spaces, Asian, Zen, and rock gardens, and containers! This dwarf pyramidal evergreen doesn't require pruning to maintain its natural shape and make great shade tolerant shrubs. Winter Gem Boxwood. This hardy boxwood holds its lovely green foliage throughout winter. This evergreen boxwood grows up to 4 feet tall and wide and makes an excellent foundation planting or hedge.
Wintergreen Boxwood. Growing Zones: 5 to 8. Its year-round, bright green foliage and compact size and shape make the Wintergreen Boxwood a great option for adding some pizazz to any size yard. Strawberry tree Arbutus unedo is a small, attractive evergreen tree, with bell-shaped flowers and pretty red fruits in autumn.
As it grows, it often forms a beautiful multi-stemmed structure. Pachysandra terminalis is a shade-loving perennial that can cope with dry shade, making it useful for creating a dense, evergreen carpet beneath trees and shrubs. It likes an acid soil, so is often paired with acid-loving rhododendrons.
Shelter from cold winds. Box Buxus sempervirens is a bushy, upright shrub or small tree with small, glossy dark green leaves.
It provides fantastic structure in the garden, clipped into balls or topiary shapes. It can also be grown as a low hedge, to edge a bed or border. Hebes, or shrubby Veronicas, are compact shrubs that naturally grow in a rounded shape.
They make a good alternative to box balls. Pollinators love the small flowers that are produced in early summer. I have clay soil. I notice most evergreen trees, e. This spot would be near an apple tree and shaded by other trees from neighbouring gardens beside — not behind! Thank you for contacting Toronto Master Gardeners with your interesting question of what tree to plant for privacy in a shady site with clay soil.
In addition to shade, your new tree will be affected by the myriad root systems of neighbouring trees and consequently with dry soil. Other hardy choices include: White fir Abies concolor , White spruce Picea glauca , and Canadian hemlock Tsuga canadensis , all hardy in Toronto, each with distinctive characteristics.
To encourage good growth, when planting dig the hole twice as wide as the width of the branching but not much deeper than it was planted in the container, breaking up the edge of the hole.
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