• Envelop your front yard with a wide range of tall plants to ensure your privacy. Tall plants constantly evolve and grow over time, creating a living barrier that can be used around a front yard. Many tall plants are also evergreen, which means that, regardless of the season, they retain most of their foliage to provide year-round screening. When selecting tall plants for the landscape, look for those that grow within your local USDA hardiness zone for optimum growth.
  
  

Common Boxwood

• Common boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) is an evergreen shrub that has a dense, rounded form with foliage that extends to the ground. The common boxwood grows 15 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide, making it an ideal screening plant in the front yard. The common boxwood features spring-blooming, creamy yellow flowers that are fragrant. Its simple, dark green foliage is lustrous and grows up to 1 inch long; however, in winter, the foliage develops an orange-green color. Hardy, the common boxwood is drought-tolerant and easy to transplant. It grows best in full sun to part shade and moist, well-drained soil with a pH of 6.0 or higher. You can grow common boxwood in USDA plant hardiness zones 5 to 8, which are defined as the zones that correspond to the average annual minimum temperature the plant tolerates.
  
  

English Laurel

• The English laurel (Prunus laurocerasus) is an evergreen shrub with a moderate growth rate and a medium to coarse texture. Growing to heights between 10 to 18 feet, the English laurel spreads 8 to 11 feet wide, meaning that it offers privacy to a great deal of space. It has an oval, rounded form that is wide-spreading and dense. The English laurel produces fragrant, white flowers that are small and emerge in spring as well as dark green, lustrous leaves that grow between 2 to 6 inches long. English laurel grows best in full sun to shade and well-drained soil that is organically-rich. English laurel can be grown in USDA plant hardiness zones 5 to 8.
  
  

Japanese Plum Yew

• The Japanese plum yew (Cephalotaxus harringtonia) is an evergreen shrub with a slow growth rate. It grows 5 to 10 feet tall and up to 14 feet wide and has a spreading and rounded form. Japanese plum yew shrubs feature non-showy flowers and olive-like fruit. They bear 1- to 2-inch-long, linear foliage that is sharply tapered and spirally arranged. The lustrous dark green foliage of the Japanese plum yew has the ability to hold its color well into winter, unless they are exposed to wind and full sun. Hardy, Japanese plum yew is both drought- and heat-tolerant, ideal for hot weather are where moisture is often reduced. Japanese plum yews grow best in full to part shade and well-drained, moist soil, but tolerate sandy, dry or clay soils. You can grow Japanese plum yews in USDA plant hardiness zones 6 to 9.