Privacy Fence extension driveway
unpostoalsole
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pricklypearcactus
3 years agoPlease post photos of the area to get the best advice.
There are tons of different ways to build fences with decorative lattice. It gives a fair amount of privacy without the "fort" feeling. You could do full lattice or partial lattice.
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Comments (29)The deer will love your yews! You will end up with yew lollipops. The genus taxus has many cultivars, and I will repeat the notion of plants doing their best when they are not pruned to maintain size. To get a semblance of screening now, yews will not be an inexpensive option. Adding to the privet comments, landscapers jam them in so they are effective for a few seasons. Mow and blow guys then massacre them with electric trimmers. Eventually, they become all woody at the inside due to this bad 'haircut' approach to pruning. If the long term appearance of a woody shrub with a seasonal green haze just at the tips is acceptable to you, it's a lower cost initial investment. I'm still concerned about the plowed snow, as it does create mounds along the edge, so it can still be damaging to any shrub with hefty snowfalls. Wish we all had a great solution for you. I like Babs' fencing plus large grasses suggestion. If there is an active garden club in your area, they will often be delighted to divide perennials and take the excess for plant sales or members' gardens. Your could probably go four years without dividing many grasses....See MoreZone 9b Privacy Hedge along Fence - Pacific Wax Myrtle or pittosporum
Comments (18)@Fori -Thanks so much, I think that is a great solution for the bay area. I think we may end up going that route :) All of the fences in our neighborhood are supposed to be 6 ft but somehow most seem to be 8 or even 10 :) I was reticent to ask, because we get along really well and I didn't want to make them feel pressured to do something to the shared fence that they didn't want to, but I think that is probably the best idea!...See MorePrivacy trees or hedges along driveway
Comments (13)Haha, thanks, Devonfield! That bay will be for my dh. I will have the center bay. Our son will park outside, if he's lucky enough to have his own car. :) Cpartist - Thank you, this has been a concern of ours and the architects. He originally designed a breezeway between the main house and garage for the mud room/laundry/pool bath, but my dh was not happy with the garage size. In order to make him happy, the garage grew and the family foyer/mud room/laundry/bath moved to the back of the house and I lost my window in the kitchen. The back of the home faces Southwest (more south than west). The great room, kitchen, dining all have 12' ceilings. The great room has transoms on the wall with the fireplace and a 12' x 8' slider with 2' transoms above. The dining room has a wall of windows measuring 12' x 10' and a sliding door measuring 9' x 8' with 2' transoms. Our architect has also suggested putting a flat roof on a portion of the garage and adding transoms above our kitchen cabinets (I'm still not sold on this idea, as I'm not sure how much light it will really add and if it's worth the additional cost). I know it won't be the brightest space, but I'm hoping it won't be dark. Thoughts?...See MoreFencing in a portion of the front corner side yard for privacy
Comments (15)I'll try to find out more about the fence...at minimum it needs a 3' setback and no higher than 3'. Even a fence that is inside of the trees would create a small private space, I guess I need to consider whether or not that would be worth the cost. I need to find out if there is any possibility of a 5' fence. If I cannot install anything that would create real privacy, then I don't want to bother with a fence at all and would rather just get rid of the lawn and underplant the trees with shrubs/perennials/groundcovers to make the front and this side cohesive (but making this be clearly a side), widen the driveway, and put up a sign that tells people to go the front door around the corner I guess. Now that the plants have gotten overgrown, the door isn't visible to the street except at night when the light is on. Here are some photos of the front. Yes things have gotten overgrown, the style of this landscape when we moved in was that everything was a tight rectangle or ball. In the process of letting things get a more natural shape, it became very clear they are too close to the house so most or all of the foundation shrubs probably need to be taken out or hedged (dislike the hedging option). Also the lawn makes our water bill high and it's mainly there for the neighborhood dogs :-P So I want to take it all out. The house is a 60s suburban ranch style. The front of the house faces south, so again the shade is needed. BUT I dislike that the house is hidden AND at the same time it doesn't feel at all private. Some of the things I'm thinking of taking out: Both purple leaf plums are at the end of their lifespan according to the arborist, and the one I've "x"ed out has Ganoderma fungus at the base. She said the "x" tree could probably live a few more years so we've had it treated and will be cleaned up soon along with the other...buying some time while I dither over the landscape re-do. One idea I had was to flank the front entrance yard on either side of the house with 'Natchez' crape myrtles. We love them and they do very well here, and the arborist said we have enough space. I'd like to keep their canopy open and high so that we get shade without blocking the front of house! The "?" is a planting of two Feijoa sellowiana; they are too close to the front door walkway, and the walk needs redoing and to be less curved to the left. Right now they are dropping fruit daily. Currently undecided whether to remove the Feijoa, or cut them down and allow to regrow in a prettier vase form, or leave them alone and just raise the canopy and accept all the strange branching. Behind the Feijoa are four meyer lemons that have been hedged for years. The bases are 2.5' at most from the house. I'm thinking about taking out 3 and allowing one of the bushes on the left to grow into a small ornamental tree...but again it might just be too close to the house and needs to go. I am in the process of trying to hire a designer, but I want to be sure my expectations are realistic and I want to be able to be more clear/reasonable when I tell them what I'm looking for in a design. Barriers to a productive design, on my end, are that I'm indecisive and I cannot find an online example of a front corner like ours that is landscaped in a way I like, and I'm struggling with trusting someone to create something I'd like. Examples they've shown are either huge yards with more normal layouts, or corners that the front side connected to the back. One last goal I had for a re-design: all around the footprint of the house, about 4' from the foundation, are approximately 20 "moss rocks" that are about 2-3' in diameter. I'd really like to incorporate them as more a feature somehow. I wanted a designer to figure that out though, once they are moved we really don't want to move them again. Here's one example of a yard I quite like:...See Moreunpostoalsole
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3 years agoYou mentioned adding a couple of decorative screen panels to your fence - are you still doing that? Looks like that’s not a wood fence & seems shorter closer to street - staggered height I assume for sight line safety for sidewalk & street when backing out / in driveway. Are you adding higher panels closer to house end of fence? I wondered about including Yews in the mix for different texture. There’s a columnar golden yew ok for zones 5 -8. I have 3 in zone 8. Love them. They are Taxus Baccata Standishii. New growth is bright yellow in spring & stays yellow with more sun. Slow grower stays narrow, does get berries but not a lot. This one to right of arbor structure is from 2017 & is now @ 2’ wide & 2’ higher than the 6’ fence behind it. I agree with every one who suggested make a plan for plants & wait until available to get them. If you just lost a huge tree you likely feel very exposed & want to get the fix in now. Too bad about the parking lot next to you but that building the lot services is nice to look at. Your home looks lovely with all the mature trees around it.
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