Coffee as a hedge

[mella l]

Glen,

I think coffee bushes grow into coffee trees! Big! It seems to me you are talking about a 4 foot wide strip. An avocado is a beautiful thing and can be kept dwarfed, but it takes constant maintenance to keep it sized properly as they grow so fast. Not sure of the marine influence on avacado either. What about a small arbor or trellis like screen with lilikoi, the blooms are fabulous purple on green vegetation and the fruit a lovely yellow and very prolific (see Carrie). Ira Ono in Volcano has some lovely bamboo, clumping type that moves so beautifully in the breeze, mesmerizing hypnotic and would make a non producing screen for privacy. Wonder where all the gardeners are? Out by the pool sipping lilikoi margaritas, lounging in diaphaneous lounging robes with contrasting shantung silk collars to match their cocktails of choice?

mella l

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