Need help designing privacy screen
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Comments (14)glad to hear 8ft is enough. The large walkway I imagine will be used for more than just the kids walking to school. I'd like to think that with all the effort and money put into this yard that I'll be making daily walks through there!! I choose flagstone because my husband is handy and I really like the look. I also consider mulch but imagine that would be a muddy mess and I've done rock at my other house and rock + kids + grass/garden = disaster...and completely dead lawn! I will likely shape the beds this summer and get some shrubs and trees in there to start and leave the "walkway" grass until I get a feel for it. I've redone a to-scale drawing that is nearly 100% accurate. Each square represents 1 foot. The gardens in the bottom left are going to my food gardens and I put measuements along the gardens by the fence stating 8 feet and 10 feet but you can't really see it all that well. The pathway is also measured at 5 feet which I think is a good width for 2 people to walk side by side...opinions on that? The garden in the bottom right will like be skyrocket junipers or some other tall narrow conifer to block my kitchen view of my neighbour's bedroom window. and the small garden in the top right is the area in which this post was originally started. I've extended the bed out by a bit so I can fit some tall, narrow conifers as well as some other plants, and hopefully the Japanese maple that is there now (I'll bring it forward of course - any idea on how tall this might get though?). I'm still not sure what I want for trees/shrubs along the back fence. I would like some privacy from the rear neighbours but its doesn't need to be privacy from a dense evergreen. A few suggestions for that area would be great. The garden along the left fence, I don't really need any privacy but maybe I want to repeat some of the same trees/shrubs/conifers along there as will for unity...suggestions for that would also be fantastic. Also...I have the large evergreen in the middle of the center garder...should add more shrubs to that area as well? If so how many? I have a few hostas in there right now and I think there was some ornamental grass from the previous owners...I also plants a butterfly bush in the fall time but that can be move as I only plants in there because I wanted to get it in the ground and I had dug up a shrub there a few weeks before. I appreciate all the help! Keep the great advice coming!...See MoreNeed help choosing privacy screening plants
Comments (4)We are trying to get a little more privacy from the neighbors. Not complete privacy, but as is we have such clear line of sight it becomes awkward not to invite everyone to the pool when we’re swimming....See MoreNeed help filling in privacy screen
Comments (9)Thank you for all the input. Some interesting options I hadn’t considered. I don’t think we can plant a vine on the fence (though it would be beautiful) because it is my neighbors’ fence and they have goats. So anything that grows through or on the fence will be eaten in short order. As far as groundcover/grass goes, we are not trying to grow grass there. The green on the ground you see are just weeds. We are going to clean it all up and mulch everything well once the rest of the plants are in place. We went shopping this weekend and bought cherry laurels, Japanese ligustrum, wax myrtle, cleyera, evergreen and deciduous viburnum, anise, winterberry holly, some more cryptomeria and a couple thuja gg, panicle and macrophylla hydrangea, distyllium, rhododendron, fothergilla, and some perennials and creepers for along the wall. I know it sounds like a lot for the space, but the picture only shows about half of the area we are working on. We also have a lot of other places we can plant things if we find we bought too much....See MoreI need help designing a hedge row. Not asking for free service
Comments (7)"The only accurate part is..." But they are in complete disorientation to the house and all the angles incorrect. So one couldn't use the plan to count on any sight lines being accurate. It's just not usable for a landscape plan. It might be usable to get a quantity and then work out details on site. But that has a high probability of something not working out....See MoreK Laurence
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