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 ...

This patch of clumping bamboo is leaning behind a white-blooming spirea coming out of winter. Q: My husband and I have a natural tree line between us and our new neighbors. We have 41/2 acres, and ...

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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Even if you don't have a nosy neighbor with wandering eyes, installing a privacy screen can make you feel more relaxed in your backyard. Not ...

All the world’s top gardens rely to some extent on “borrowed landscapes”— external views, structures and elements that can be incorporated into the overall look of a garden. But where our own gardens ...

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 ...

THE OUTDOOR space of 29 Gray Street (see page 4) is less a yard and more an atmospheric oasis in the middle of the city. Designed by the owners and executed by Dave Heffernan of Deck Additions ...

A BRISBANE couple who planted bamboo to retain their privacy when a three-level glass-sided container house went up next door have been ordered to lop the six-metre high plants to restore their ...