Works for me.

Sweet !

It's a windbreak.

Yes. A windbreak. i grew up on the northern prairies. in the summer id spend my days dusting the prairie dirt. in the winter, shovelling the snow. one year we got a huge amount of snow and a neighbour with no windbreak had their small house completely snowed over and had to shovel a tunnel out

A beautiful little oasis. I lived in farm country for a few years and it was horrifying to me, the lack of privacy. Acres of land with a farmhouse plunked in the middle of it, every inch of the yard and garden exposed to the neighbors (even though they could be some distance away) and all the road traffic. It was also a mystery to me why all the homes were fairly close to the road. With all the land these people owned, their homes could have been set back quite a ways and had less traffic noise and visibility. I'm sure it had to do with the expense and trouble of maintaining a long driveway, but all had farm equipment and this is not in snow country. I would have planted just like the op picture to maintain my sanity.

I'm in farm country and the houses aren't right on the road but they aren't set way back either, like a house on a plantation. :) That's a lot of driveway & $$$$ required. Plus upkeep & when it snows there's a good chance it will drift over.

We have a windbreak as do most out here. There is one farmhouse a couple of miles away that's very pretty, but not one tree!

Not that this applies with this cute little place, but seeing it reminded me of the old Frank Lloyd Wright saying: even a doctor gets to bury his mistakes, but an architect can only plant vines.

I grew up in a farmhouse in central Texas that was surrounded by pecan trees that my great-grandfather had planted. They were not a windbreak (spaced too far apart), but they did provide some visual privacy, and we had very large yards all around the house. Across the road from the house, he had planted a pecan orchard with dozens of trees. We very seldom had strong winds, as I remember, and we were at the southern tip of Tornado Alley.

I did not see snow until I was eleven, and so snow removal was never an issue. When it did snow, the snow melted in less than a day.

Olychick, that's funny, because I feel the same way about living in the city. I don't understand how people who live there can stand not having any privacy, neighbors so close, and all the traffic noise, sirens, etc. I just couldn't do it. I have to be in the country where I can breathe !