{"id":231536,"date":"2026-04-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/florida-native-plants-that-make-best-hedges-and-privacy-fences\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:30:22","slug":"florida-native-plants-that-make-best-hedges-and-privacy-fences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/florida-native-plants-that-make-best-hedges-and-privacy-fences\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida native plants that make best hedges and privacy fences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2026\/04\/05\/florida-native-plants-make-best-hedges-privacy-fences-port-st-lucie-vero-beach-stuart-fort-pierce\/88508025007\/\">Florida native plants that make best hedges and privacy fences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2026\/04\/05\/florida-native-plants-make-best-hedges-privacy-fences-port-st-lucie-vero-beach-stuart-fort-pierce\/88508025007\/\">https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2026\/04\/05\/florida-native-plants-make-best-hedges-privacy-fences-port-st-lucie-vero-beach-stuart-fort-pierce\/88508025007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-05 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tcpalm.com\">www.tcpalm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 5, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">5 native plants that can grow into thick hedges and tall privacy screens.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Silver buttonwood<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Low-branched shrub; can be clipped into a hedge; tolerant of sun, salt, dry, wet conditions<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Cocoplum<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Shrub is salt- and drought-tolerant; has dense foliage<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Sea grape<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Large round leaves; can be sheered to form hedge; trained and trimmed to form tree; grape-like fruit attracts wildlife<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Firebush<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Multi-stemmed shrub; leaf colors vary green to red; red flowers attract butterflies, hummingbirds; songbirds eat small fruit<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Walter&#8217;s viburnum<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Heavily branched and vegetated shrub; can tolerate shearing; provides cover and food for birds and wildlife<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Olivia Franklin\u00a0is TCPalm\u2019s trending reporter.\u00a0You can contact her at\u00a0olivia.franklin@tcpalm.com,\u00a0317-627-8048\u00a0or follow her on X\u00a0@Livvvvv_5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2026\/04\/05\/florida-native-plants-make-best-hedges-privacy-fences-port-st-lucie-vero-beach-stuart-fort-pierce\/88508025007\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida native plants that make best hedges and privacy fences https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/entertainment\/events\/2026\/04\/05\/florida-native-plants-make-best-hedges-privacy-fences-port-st-lucie-vero-beach-stuart-fort-pierce\/88508025007\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-05 05:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/gcdn\/-mm-\/43a652163c37ebdab92f54655307afc48413cbad\/c=0-176-595-511\/local\/-\/media\/FortMyers\/2014\/09\/12\/silverbuttonwoodisfrequentlyseengrowinginbeachcommunities..jpg?width=595&height=335&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231538,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231536\/revisions\/231538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}