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ELAGNUS SILVERTHORN

Advanced Nursery Growers

$18.00

Elaeagnus ‘Silverthorn’ (Elaeagnus × ebbingei) is one of the toughest and fastest-growing privacy shrubs you can plant. This evergreen beauty features silvery-green foliage, copper-colored new growth, and highly fragrant flowers in fall. It grows quickly into a dense hedge, providing year-round screening and excellent wildlife habitat.

Plant Features

  • Mature Height: 12–15 ft

  • Mature Width: 8–12 ft

  • Growth Rate: Fast – 2–3 ft per year

  • Sun: Full sun to part shade

  • Soil: Very adaptable; handles sandy, clay, and poor soils

  • Hardiness: Zones 7–10

  • Wildlife: Birds love the berries; flowers attract pollinators

  • Uses: Privacy hedge, fence-line screen, windbreak, wildlife cover

Why You’ll Love It

  • Evergreen, dense, and incredibly hardy

  • Thrives in heat, humidity, and drought once established

  • Provides nesting cover and food for wildlife

  • Responds well to pruning — easy to shape into a hedge

  • Ideal for large properties needing fast privacy

Landscape Tips

  • Space 3–5 ft apart for a solid hedge

  • Prune 1–2 times a year to maintain height and shape

  • Water regularly the first season, then it becomes very drought-tolerant

Create a beautiful, wildlife-friendly privacy screen with this durable, fast-growing evergreen.


We only ship to the continental USA no shipping to California, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Our plants ship bare root or with minimal soil in a bag.  5 gallon pots or larger they must be picked up at the nursery ( or call for special shipping arrangements to see if we can ship to you ).

The picture is an example  and is not always the actual plant being shipped


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