Creating Privacy With a Garden

Shrubs and perennials create a wonderful privacy screen

My name is Mary Morgan , and I am a hobby gardener . This seventies house near Redding , California , is new to me . I require some privacy from the street , and I wanted to muffle the road stochasticity from the cars . The menage demand a softer feeling , and my soul call for a garden !

I had two dump motortruck of garden filth delivered . I had the filth mound to follow the curve . I used newsprint to pop the grass where I was going to garden . I planted Nandina(Nandina domestica , Zones 6–11 ) , rosemary(Rosmarinus officinalis , Zones 7–10 ) , and tall barbate iris(Iris germanica , Zones 4–9 ) to provide yr - bout interest in my Zone 9 garden . I used spring medulla oblongata and annual for extra year - round color .

This makeover was a relatively cheap way to call all my needs . The garden is abject alimony and uses less water system than the old lawn !

The after scene . This garden certainly play Mary ’s needs . The thick planting provides a destiny of privacy and will dull the road noise . Mounding up soil is also a great idea , as that is an well-heeled way not only to ensure that plant have skillful drainage but also to make everything marvelous so as to produce a better privacy screen faster .

This position toward the house from the road understandably shows how effectual a privacy screen this garden is . You could get the same event with a dim-witted hedge , but the diverse readiness of plants makes this garden far more beautiful and interesting .

Uh oh … Other visitors are enjoying the garden as well . Mary ’s garden is stock , by requisite , with cervid - resistive plant . A set of us have problems with cervid in our gardens , and we essentially have two selection : industrial plant thing they do n’t need to eat , or put up a very tall fence .

One last persuasion of the garden , with some adorable bearded irises catching the sun .

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