About this time every year as we anticipate warm weather and outdoor living, privacy in our backyards comes under scrutiny. And once again we long for an 8-foot screen to shield a neighbor or some ...

Bamboo is well known for spreading aggressively once planted in the garden. It is the main reason people give for not growing bamboo. What if you could move your bamboo screen whenever you wish ...

While at once enamored with the close community of her small-town home in southern France, ex-pat Annie Moore and her husband, Colin, knew they'd also need to address the privacy question when they ...

With houses being built cheek by jowl, and remodels going vertical to increase square footage, we get lots of questions about plants for screening and privacy. People are looking for plants that are ...

The family home is located on a tight and long narrow plot bordered on three sides by houses with shared walls — the only free opening is towards the street. In order to bring more daylight and fresh ...

A SMALL rotten picket fence, that is suffocating under the weight of unruly ivy and bindweed sits between myself and my neighbours. We both have 80ft gardens, but the evening sun lands on my side of ...