7 Edible & Fruiting Hedges and Screens

What fruiting plants make great hedges or screens?
This could also be phrased,
How can I grow more food in an urban backyard?
Edible Hedge and Edible Screen Profiles:
1. Acerola Cherry 🍒
Fruiting Edible Hedge: This tropical shrub, produces bright red cherries packed with vitamin C. It grows to 3m+ fast and makes a lush, dense hedge.
2. Sambung 🌱
Leafy Green Edible Screen: This leafy green can be trellised to screen, has a tangy flavour and offers plenty of health benefits while giving you privacy in your garden.
3. Citrus Trees 🍋
Fruiting Edible Hedge or Screen: Citrus make perfect privacy screens, can provide a diverse range of fruit along the hedge while offering fragrant blossoms and a noise barrier. Note: they do like air flow so may need thinning to promote healthy growth habits.
4. Lilly Pilly 🍇
Fruiting Edible Hedge: This super hardy fast growing shrub is personal favourite. It thickens quickly when pruned intentionally, produces crisp small edible berries and vibrant foliage. It is a beautiful hedging plant that is low maintenance.
5. Coffee ☕
Fruiting Edible Hedge: Coffee plants have beautiful foliage. They do like some sun protection and a good water but produce the delicious little beans that when roasted supply your morning brew.
6. Grumichama 🍒
Fruiting Edible Hedge or Screen: These plants are a winner for foliage and fruit! The fruit are small grape like like berries with sweet flesh and a gingery skin. The foliage is a deep green and beautiful and as a screen, the less pruning you do the more fruit you get and mature trees pump out a handy supply of fruit.
7. Salt Bush- A hardy Australian native, this little bush has tasty, salty leaves that form a tidy little silver leafed hedge. It is actually used as stock feed but can be eaten fresh in small amounts or in cooked meals. The leaves are also can be a handy source of calcium compared to other leafy plants.
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